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LOS ANGELES
From the Mountains to the Sea
JOHN STEVEN McGROARTY
WITH SELECTED BIOGRAPHY OF ACTORS AND WITNESSES
OF THE PERIOD OF GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1921
Copyright, 1921,
BY
AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1131984
LOS ANGELES
From the Mountains to the Sea
John Griffin Mott. As a lawyer, orator and man of affairs, the
name of John Griffin Mott has a well deserved significance in California.
A native of Los Angeles, a man of liberal education, inheriting his gift
of eloquence from a pioneer Californian, he has in many ways been
successfully identified with the professional and civic affairs of his
native city for the past twenty years.
He was born at Los Angeles August 3, 1874, son of Thomas and
Ascension (Sepulveda) JMott. His father crossed the plains to California
in 1849. He was then twenty years of age, being a native of New
York state. After some experiences as a miner and merchant, he came
to Los Angeles in 1852, and thenceforward was active as a business
man, a city and county official and one of the leaders in many of the
movements aft'ecting the welfare and development of the southern half
of the state. He married a daughter of one of the oldest and most
prominent land-owning Spanish families of Southern California.
John Griffin J\lott received his primary education in St. Vincent's
College of Los Angeles, and from there was sent east to Notre Dame
University in Indiana, where he was graduated Bachelor of Letters and
Bachelor of Laws in 1896. The following year he spent in the Catholic
University of America at Washington, and was granted the degree Master
of Laws. The rector of the university at that time was Bishop Conaty,
later head of the Diocese of Los Angeles.
Since the conclusion of his studies in the East, Mr. Mott has been
absorbed in an important and growing practice as a lawyer. After about
four years he formed a partnership with R. J. Dillon, under the firm
name of Mott & Dillon. Mr. Mott has made a specialty of corjwration
and probate law, and many of the notable cases in the courts of Southern
California have involved him as an attorney.
His professional and individual work relating to the larger public
life and affairs of the state deserves some mention. He was active in
the movement for consolidating Los Angeles and the seaport of San
Pedro, and was one of the leaders of the campaign for selling bonds
to finance the great Owens River Aqueduct, one of the greatest engineer-
ing enterprises of the time. He was also the attorney who gave his
personal attention to the matter of securing Federal approval for the
site of the Federal Building in Los Angeles. He presented that matter
before the Congressional committees and at the White House itself, and
it was largely his argimients that induced President Roosevelt to sign
the bill for the proposed site.
Mr. Mott has long been a recognized leader in the republican party
of California. Here his ability as an orator has been of special service.
He has appeared in most of the local and state campaigns, and his
reputation as an orator is by no means confined to his native state.
He is a member of the American Ear, Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
County Bar Associations, is past exalted ruler of the Los Angeles Order
of Elks, a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Knights
of Columbus, the Crags Countr)- Club, Sons of the Revolution and
California Club. February 23, 1905, he married Aliss Lila Jean Fair-
child.
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Cumnock School. The Cumnock School of Los Angeles, including
a junior department, an academy and a school of expression, is dis-
tinctive as being the oldest school of expression in Southern California.
It was established in the fall of 1894 by Mrs. Merrill Moore Grigg.
Mrs. Grigg was a graduate of the School of Oratory of Northwestern
University, of which Dr. Robert McLean Cumnock was direcior, and
for several years had been his first assistant. It was that association
that led her to name the school in his honor. From a beginning made
in modest circumstances and in small quarters, the school has, from time
to time, been compelled to enlarge its accommodations and teaching
force. In 1902 a new building was erected, its exterior features being
a replica of the famous Shakespeare House at Stratford-on-Avon. The
second department of the institution, a preparatory school, known as the
Cumnock Academy, was established in 1904 by Mrs. Kate Tupper Galpin.
She lived only two years after founding the academy, but her successors
have held to the same ideals and to the same standards which she pro-
posed and exemplified. The academy either prepares for the university
or aft'ords a general cultural course. The junior school enrolls pupils
of the primary and grammar grade ages.
The death of the founder of the school, Mrs. Grigg, occurred in
January, 1915. The director at present is Miss Helen Augusta Brooks.
In 1916 the school moved to its present quarters in the west central
part of the city of Los Angeles, fronting on Vermont Avenue. The high
elevation affords a sweeping view of mountain and city, with a glimpse
of the distant sea; the ample grounds give space for outdoor class rooms
or for playgrounds; the nearness of the fine residence district of the
city helps to create an atmosphere of refinement.
In the spring of 1917, after an investigation on the part of the
examiner of colleges of the University of California, the Committee on
Credentials of the State University granted credit for credit to students
in Cumnock School of Expression wherever the work was parallel to
that in the State University, at that time, forty-eight units being granted.
In January, 1918, after investigation on the part of the State Board
of Education, students having completed the fourth year of the work
of th Expression School were granted the right to the secondary cer-
tificate in Oral and Dramatic Expression.
The purpose of the Cumnock School is to develop character through
the awakening and the training of the latent powers of expression in
the individual student. While in the professional school, students are
trained with the specific end of becoming readers or teachers of expres-
sion, it is the purpose in all departments to keep in view the real relation
to fife.
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Captain Thomas Davis, whose work as a military instructor and
educator has brought him much prominence in Southern California, has
been a student of military technique for over a quarter of a century,
served as an officer in the Spanish-American war, and for the past ten
years has given all his time to military training and instruction.
Captain Davis was bom at Lebanon, Virginia, June 29, 1873, a son
of John Lynch and Mary J. (Alderson) Davis. He attended grammar
and high schools until 1888, then entering the preparatory department
of the University of Tenn ssee, where he was graduated in 1893. After
leaving university and until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war
he was connected with his father's wholesale shoe business.
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Captain Davis became a member of the National Guard of Tennes-
see in 1890, serving as senior captain of the Battalion of Cadets at the
university in the two years 1890-92. June 29, 1898, he was commis-
sioned first lieutenant of the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry,
was promoted to regimental adjutant of the same regiment December 1,
1898, and was commissioned a captain in that regiment January 7, 1899.
During the war he was in the Porto Rico campaign.
For three years, 1907-10, Captain Davis was superintendent and
commandant of cadets with the El Paso Military Institute. In 1910
he selected San Diego as the location for a proposed school which he
founded and which was known as the San Diego Army and Navy
Academy. He was superintendent and commandant of this academy four
years, 1910 to 1914, and since that date has been its superintendent. He
was persuaded by some influential residents of Pasadena to establish a
branch school at Pasadena, and on October 8, 1917, opened what is
known as the Pasadena Army and Navy Academy, occupying a beautiful
building and grounds of the old Annandale Country Club. During 1917-18
the enrollment was thirty-eight, and during 1918-19 sixty-two. These
institutions are among the best of their kind, and America is now as
never before in a position to appreciate the value of just such service
as Captain Davis has rendered during his residence on the coast.
In 1907 he served as president of the Board of Directors of the
Y. M. C. A. at Bristol, Tennessee. He is a Phi Gamma' Delta, a
Methodist and a democrat. January 27, 1903, at Bristol, Tennessee,
Captain Davis married Miss Bessie Taylor. They have two children:
Marinita, attending public school at Pacific Beach, and Charles Andrew
Murray Davis, who is six years old.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. It is doubtful if the great common-
wealth of California would today hold the commanding position it does
had it not been for the energies and courageous enterprise of General
John C. Fremont, known to history as the "Pathfinder of the Rocky
Mountains." Associated with him in much of his exploration work and
constantly aiding him with her sympathetic understanding of his aims and
purposes was his devoted and remarkable wife, Mrs. Jessie Benton Fre-
mont. These two hold a unique place in the hearts of Califomians, as
well as those of the whole country, and no tribute paid to their memory
can be too great for their desserts.
Jessie Benton Fremont was born on Cherry Creek Plantation, Vir-
ginia, in 1824, a daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (McDowell)
Benton, and came of a distinguished family, her father having rendered
his country a remarkable service both as a soldier during the War of
1812, a newspaper owner and publisher, and as United States senator
from Missouri, holding this important office for a period of thirty years.
His death occurred at Washington, D. C, in 1858. His father was a
heavy landowner in Virginia and a man of great influence in his com-
munity.
Jessie Benton was her father's companion, and learned from her
father to take a much broader view of events than was usual with women
of her generation. It was but natural that the acquaintance between her
and the dashing young lieutenant, John C. Fremont, should ripen into
love, which resulted in their marriage on October 19, 1841, at Wash-
ington, D. C. During the following year Lieutenant Fremont, stimu-
lated by his young wife's faith in him, began his exploration of the
Rocky Mountains, and opened up the South Pass, through which so
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many found their way to the coast in after days. In 1845 he cleared
the northern part of CaHfornia of Mexican troops, and then, pushing
ahead, practically covered all the territory now included in the states of
Oregon, Nevada and Utah. In 1846 he was made a lieutenant-colonel,
and military commandant and civil governor of the Territory of Cali-
fornia, and the year following bought the Mariposa estate in California,
upon which he located in 1849. His adventurous spirit, however, could
not rest content, and in 1853 he undertook a fifth expedition across the
continent. With the organization of the republican party, John C. Fre-
mont, then the popular idol, was its first presidential candidate, but
although receiving a large vote, was not elected on account of the strength
of the long-established democratic party. A strong Union man, with
the outbreak of the Civil war he offered his services and was commis-
sioned a major-general and placed in command of the Western Army.
During 1878-81 he served as Governor of Arizona. The death of this
distinguished American occurred in New York City, July 13, 1890.
In order that Mrs. Fremont might accompany him in his explora-
tions, General Fremont had a carriage especially built for her, and
shipped to California around "the Horn," and it was the first vehicle
of this kind in the state. It was so constructed that it could be converted
into a bed, obviating the necessity for her sleeping in the open. Miss
Elizabeth Benton Fremont remembers distinctly traveling in this carriage
with her mother, and the pleasurable excitement of sleeping in the
carriage bed in any spot where night overtook them.
In the late eighties, the women of California, appreciating the
qualities of Mrs. Fremont, and wishing to pay to her an appropriate
tribute, presented her with a residence in Los Angeles, where she died
on December 27, 1902, at the age of seventy-eight years. She was a
lady of charming personality and during her long and eventful life par-
ticipated in so much of national importance that her outlook was one of
infinite vision. Her intellectual gifts were remarkable, and as early as
1863 she published "Story of the Guard," a chronicle of the war. In
1886 she wrote and published a sketch of her father, which was affixed
to the memoirs published by her husband. Fler book, "Souvenirs of
My Time" and "The Will and the Way Stories," appeared later. At
the time of her demise she was busily engaged in preparing her auto-
biography. After her death her ashes were sent to New York and were
interred beside those of her beloved husband on the banks of the Hudson
River.
On November 16, 1912, ground was broken, with appropriate cere-
monies, for the erection of the Southwest Monument, the first spadeful
of dirt being dug by Miss Elizabeth Benton Fremont. An inspiring
feature of the day was the raising by Miss Fremont and General Chaffee
of the same flag General Fremont had unfurled on the crest of the Rocky
Mountains, August 16, 1842.
The only daughter of the late General Fremont was Miss Elizabeth
Fremont, who died at her home, 1179 Thirtieth Street, in Los Angeles,
May 28, 1919, at the age of seventy-six. She was a well loved and
venerated character in California, with an unusually refined, cultivated
mind, and she did full justice to the prestige of her family and left sweet
mernories in the hearts of her friends. Her only brother, and now the
only surviving member of the family, is Major F. P. Fremont of Cleve-
land, Ohio.
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Edward R. Young. The name Young has been well known in
legal circles in Southern California over thirty years. Edward R. Young,
a member of the Public Service Commission of Los Angeles, is the active
lawyer of the family since his father retired a few years ago.
He is a son of William Young, who was born in Edinburgh, Scot-
land, December 14, 1840, and has had a varied and active career. He
attended public schools in Scotland, and in 1854 came to the United
States. He lived in New York City until the outbreak of the Civil war,
when he enlisted in a cavalry regiment and saw three and a half years
of hard fighting. After the war he went to Dakota Territory, took up
a claim and was a cattleman for several years. What he was able to
save in the cattle business he took with him to Chicago and finished his
education. He then traveled for a railroad supply house, and at Marshall-
town, Iowa, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and acquired a
good practice. In 1888 he moved to Los Angeles, and for upwards ot
thirty years was engaged in a comfortable practice, and he also filled
the office of township justice for twelve years. Since 1915 he has been
retired. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was one
of the organizers and is a past master of South Gate Lodge, F. and A.
M. Politically he is a stanch republican. William Young married in
New York state, in 1870, Charlotte Gifford. Their five children are:
William H., in the real estate business at Los Angeles; Mrs. Edwin
Cramer, of Los Angeles; Edward R., George G., teller in the First
National Bank of Los Angeles, and Miss Charlotte, a kindergarten
teacher.
Edward R. Young was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, September 10,
1876, and has lived in Southern California since he was twelve years of
age. He finished his high school education in Los Angeles, and at the
age of eighteen graduated from the State Normal. For five years he
taught, the last two years being principal of the Washington Street
School at Los Angeles. He gave up his work as an educator to enter
the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where
he graduated LL. B. in 1902. Since then he has been busy building up a
reputation and clientage as a Los Angeles attorney. He practiced for
several years with Judge J. W. McKinley, former attorney for the
Southern Pacific Railroad. During 1907-11 he served as first assistant
city attorney of Los Angeles, and since that time has been handling an
individual law practice. He was appointed by Mayor Woodman member
of the Public Service Commission in July, 1918, to fill a vacancy, and
was reappointed in February, 1919. Mr. Young is a member of the Los
Angeles Bar Association, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles
Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Municipal League, and is a repub-
lican. May 1, 1907, he married Miss Belle Wiley. They have two
children, Gloria May and Barbara Belle, twins, born in 1916.
Captain August E. Lewis, who was first an active civilian worker
and then a private and officer in the National Army organization during
the great war, is one of Los Angeles' younger business men, and head
of the stock and bond house of A. E. Lewis & Co.
He was bom in New York City, March 7, 1889, a son of Eugene
and Amanda (Heiter) Lewis. His education was very carefully looked
after and was very liberal in character. Up to the age of ten he attended
Craigie Private School, in New York City, was then in the Hackley
School at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson to the senior year, and at the age
of fourteen began preparing for college in the Irving School at New
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York City. When sixteen he entered Harvard University and graduated
with the A. B. degree in 1910. Mr. Lewis then returned to New York
City, and in order to learn the stock and bond business took a place at
a nominal salary with the well-known Wall Street firm of Newbourg &
Company. Later he became a bond salesman, and in 1912 joined H. P.
Goldschmidt & Company in their bond department. In 1912 Mr. Lewis
came to Los Angeles and was bond salesman for Torrance, Marshall &
Company until 1915. At that date he engaged in the stock and bond
business on his own account as A. E. Lewis & Co. He practically
abandoned his business throughout the period of the wan. In the early
months he was manager of the industrial organization of the Liberty
Loan campaign, but resigned in 1917, wh;n he enlisted in the Aviation
Section, United States Signal- Officers' Reserve Corps, as a first-class
private. In June, 1918, he was transferred to the Construction Division
of the United States Quartermaster's Department, with the rank of
second lieutenant, stationed at Camp Humphreys for two month= ; he
was then transferred to Camp Meade as first lieutenant, and August 24,
1918, was ordered to Washington on General Marshall's staflf, chief of
the Construction Division. He was sent to Camp Joseph E. Johnston
at Jacksonville, Florida, on special work with the rank of captain, and
was released and received his honorable discharge from the army in
January, 1919, at once returning to Los Angeles and reopening his stock
and bond offices, where his former patronage and much new business
have found him.
Mr. Lewis is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Jona-
than Club and is a republican. July 14, 1918, he married, at Washington,
Miss Mary Kennedy.
John Edw^. Sullivan, secretary and treasurer of the Western
Wholesale Drug Company, has been identified with one line of business
since he began earnmg his living as a boy in Los Angeles: He has thus
proved the old rule that concentration of effort along one direction, ac-
companied with the proper amount of ability, is certain to win the goal
of business success.
Mr. Sullivan was born at San Francisco, April 19, 1874, son of
Philip H. and Catherine P. (Crowley) Sullivan. As a boy in San Fran-
cisco he attended public school until June, 1887, when his mother re-
moved to Los Angeles. Soon afterward, at the age of fourteen, he went
to work for J. T. Sheward, a retail dry goods and department store
owner. He spent one year with Mr. Sheward as cash boy at two dollars
and a half a week. He then changed jobs, and while he probably did
not recognize it at the time, he was thereby opening for himself the
field where his energies and abilities have found their best scope and
opportunity. His next employer was Adolph Eckstein, a retail druggist,
whose store was located at Third and Fort Streets, now Third and
Broadway, where the Bradbury Building stands. He was with Mr. Eck-
stein two years, and then became order clerk with Charles L. Ruggles
in the wholesale drug business. A year later he went as order clerk
with the F. W. Braun Drug Company, and for twelve years was with
that well-known house, being promoted until he was assistant manager
of the sundries department. Mr. Sullivan was one of the original stock-
holders in the Western Wholesale Drug Company, and on leaving the
Braun Company became secretary and treasurer and has been one of
the main factors in building up the present business.
Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West,
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the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Brentwood Country Club, the South-
ern California Auto Club, and is a republican and a member of the
Catholic Church.
Ottober 4, 1904, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Evelyn Dowker.
They have two children : Elizabeth Jane, born in 1906, a student in the
Hollywood School for Girls ; and John Richard, born in 1908, attending
grammar school.
Al Levy. This is a name which more than anything else suggests
to thousands of Californians and thousands in others states and countries
good eating and refreshment. Al Levy is the veteran restauranteur of
California, having been in some phase of the business for over forty
years.
He was bom in Liverpool, England, April 25, 1860, son of Bernard
and Rose (Ansell) Levy. His father was an expert watchmaker and
jeweler in Liverpool.
Al Levy attended a private school at Dublin, Ireland, and at the
age of fifteen set out for San Francisco, being on the voyage six months.
He found his first employment in a restaurant at the California Market,
where he remained eight years. He then opened a restaurant of his
own on Kearny Street, between Bush and Pin a streets, and was in that
location until 1886. In that year he moved to Los Angeles. The be-
ginning of his career in this city was humble enough. For two years he
conducted a coffee parlor in a basement two doors south of the old
Pico House, on North Main Street. At that time he conceived the
oyster cocktail. He sold his goods from a wagon, handling nothing but
oyster cocktails, for a year and a half. He found this feature of his
business a profitable one, and then opened a permanent stand at Fifth
and Spring Streets, where the Alexandria Hotel is now located. In
1893 he moved to Third and Main Streets, where he continued sailing the
cocktails, and gradually added a general service of oysters and fish and
developed a general restaurant. Eventually a building was erected for
his special purposes at the corner of Third and Main Streets, at a cost
of a hundred thirty thousand dollars. It was the most elaborately
equipped building of its kind on the Pacific Coast, and the general service
maintained by Levy's was on a par with the material furnishings and
equipment. That was the home of Levy's until 1912, when Mr. Levy
opened a restaurant on Seventh Street, between Spring and Main Streets.
Then, in 1914, he opened the cafe he now owns at 743 South Spring
Street. There has been no diminution in the quality of his service and
his management during all these years, and today Levy's Cafe is con-
sidered the finest on the coast. During 1914-15 he also operated a
beautiful cafe on the Exposition Grounds at San Diego, known to thou-
sands of visitors there as the "Christabel."
Mr. Levy is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and was the ninety-
ninth member on the roll of Elks Lodge No. 99. At San Francisco,
April 8, 1885, he married Miss Ray Levy. They have two children:
Bob B., born in San Francisco December 25, 1885, was educated in the
grammar and high schools, and is now his father's assistant in the cafe
business and is also head of the Levy Costume Company. The daughter,
Martha B., was born at Los Angeles October 7, 1890, is Mrs. William
Ziedell of Los Angeles.
William Talton Craig. One of California's native sons, follow-
ing the same profession which his father honored many years, William
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Talton Craig has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles bar for
over a quarter of a century. His name has been equally identified with
a number of important movements and organizations in this city.
Mr. Craig was born at Watsonville, California, March 8, 1866. His
father, Andrew Craig, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, June 10, 1836, was
taken when a child by his parents to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he re-
ceived his early education in the public schools. He attended college at
St. Joseph, Missouri, and studied law with Congressman Charles H.
Mansur at Chilhcothe. In 1865, at the close of the Civil war, he came
West to California by way of the Isthmus route, locating at Stockton,
and later at Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, where he practiced six
years, and where he lived until 1872, when he moved to Santa Cruz.
Besides his private practice, he served from 1872 to 1876 as district attor-
ney, and from 1876 to 1880 as county judge of Santa Cruz County. In
1880 Andrew Craig removed to San .Francisco, and was one of the
-successful members of the bar of that city until his death, in 1912. At
Chillicothe, Missouri, in 1854, he married Mary Catharine Pace.
William Talton Craig, one of the nine children of his parents, at-
tended public school in Santa Cruz, graduated from high school in San
Francisco in 1885, and in 1889 received his Ph. B. degree from the Uni-
versity of California. The following two years he spent in the Hastings
Law College of San Francisco, and upon his admission to the bar formed
a partnCTship with his father at San Francisco, under the name Craig &
Craig.
Mr. Craig located at Los Angeles in 1892, and steadily since that
date has carried heavy responsibilities in his profession and has enjoyed
many of the important honors thereof. From 1913 to 1918 he served
as a member of the Los Angeles City Civil Service Commission. He is
a director of the United States National Bank and is president of the
holding company of the Native Sons of the Golden West. He is a Scot-
tish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of Westgate Lodge No. 335,
F. and A. M., belongs to the University Club, South Coast Yacht Club,
Municipal League, Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, State and Amer-
ican Bar Associations and the Commercial Law League of America.
At San Francisco, November 20, 1895, he married Miss L. Etta
Brown. They have one child surviving, Talton Robert, born at Los
Angeles, October U, 1899, a graduate of the Intermediate High and
the New Mexico Military Institute of New Mexico, and now engaged
in the wholesale rubber business.
John Roman came to Los Angeles half a dozen years ago, after
a successful business career in the East, but was not content to remain
retired long, and his name is now well known in automobile circles.
He was born in Posen, Poland, April 23, 1867, son of Frank and
Catharine Romanowicz. It was in accord with the process of simplifica-
tion that Mr. John Roman left off the expressive Polish termination of
his name, leaving one better fitted to American pronunciation and usage.
However, Mr. Rom.-in is stanchly allied with his people, though a
sterling American in every sense of the word. At Los Angeles Mr.
Roman organized and is head of the Polish Reconstruction Society.
The purpose of this organization is to raise funds to finance Poles who
enlist for overseas service in the "Polish Army in France," and provide
for many other meritorious philanthropies in behalf of that war-stricken
people. The general supervision of this fund is managed by the famous
pianist, Paderewski.
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Mr. Roman was educated in his native country, attended the com-
mon schools there to the age of fourteen, and was then apprenticed to
learn the trade of cabinet maker. He became a very expert and skillful
workman, and after coming to America he was largely employed in the
finer and more technical processes of wood working. At the age of
twenty, having completed his apprenticeship, Mr. Roman was called
upon to serve two years in the German army. He was a member of a
field artillery regiment, and most of his service was at Stettine.
After leaving the army he came to America and at St Louis was
employed a year and a half at his trade with the Belden Church Furni-
ture Company. He then removed to Chicago and for a year and a half
was with the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, manufacturers of
billiard tables. Following that Mr. Roman engaged in the billiard supply
and manufacturing business on his own account, and continued his enter-
prise successfully for fifteen years. He then diverted a portion of his
capital to the ownership of a vaudeville and motion picture house, and
continued its operation in Chicago until 1911, when he sold out and
came to Los Angeles.
He lived retired here until 1914, when for a year he took the agency
of the Studebaker automobile at Glendale. Selling that agency, he
formed a company with G. F. Dustin, known as the Dustin-Roman Auto
Top Company, of which Mr. Roman is secretary and treasurer. As
described elsewhere, this is one of the exclusive and highly specialized
businesses in automobile circles at Los Angeles, and is a growing and
prospering concern.
Mr. Roman is a trustee of the Glendale Lodge of Elks and is one
of the most prominent members of the Polish colony of Los Angeles. He
is a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. In July, 1898, he
married, in Chicago, Mary Watezak.
N. A. Ross has been a resident of Southern California for fifteen
years. He has been a successful merchant and coal mine operator in
the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, and came to California for his
health. He found it, and after a short time entered with recreated
energy the real estate business. He has promoted some of the best sub-
divisions around Los Angeles and is one of the men whose capital, enter-
prise and influence are doing most for the agricultural and commercial
upbuilding of the famous Imperial Valley.
Mr. Ross was born in Scott county, East Tennessee, July 9, 1866, son
of F. M. and Sarah (Murphy) Ross, natives of the same county. This
county was named for Winfield Scott, the famous general of the Mexican
war. F. M. Ross spent practically all his life as a merchant. In the
early days he owned a farm, and his store was conducted on the farm.
Later, when the Cincinnati Southern was built through the country and
within a mile and a half of his home, he moved his business to the town
of Winfield and put up a building and opened the first stock of mer-
chandise in that community. He remained there until 1884, when fire
destroyed his store. Later he resumed business, but depended largely
upon his son, N. A. Ross, for its management. F. M. Ross came to
Los Angeles in 1906, and died there in May, 1916, at the age of seventy-
four. His wife had died at Williamsburg, Kentucky, in 1892, at the
age of forty-nine.
N. A. Ross acquired his early education in the public schools of Scott
county, also attended Maryville College, in Tennessee, and a business
college at Lexington, Kentucky. At the age of seventeen he was buying
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stocks of goods and managing the general merchandise business of his
father. In 1892 he removed to Kentucky and began manufacturing lum-
ber in the southern part of Pulaski county under his own name. He
was there about four years, and then, returning to East Tennessee, en-
gaged in coal mining in Morgan county. He was associated with John
Fetterman in the coal mining business under the name Brushy Mountain
Coal Company. The four years he spent there he was general manager
of the industry. He made money, but found coal mining a hard proposi-
tion, detrimental to his health and involving many other difficulties. His
company had the only independent coal mine in that particular part of
the country, all of the fest being operated by convict miners. Mr. Ross
also stood for the "open shop," and that brought him the opposition of
the mine union. In connection with his mines at Petros, Tennessee, he
also conducted a general merchandise store. On leaving Tennessee, Mr.
Ross moved to Knox county, Kentucky, and resumed coal mining at
Rossland, a place named in his honor. Subsequently he was a mine
operator at Artemus, Kentucky, and was interested in both localities until
he came West to Los Angeles in 1904.
He had given up coal mining in Kentucky on account of his health.
His doctor told him he had but twelve months to live if he remained in
Kentucky, but under the wonderful California climate his health was
rapidly restored and he feels that he has as good prospects for long life
as the next man. On his way to California he visited and prospected in
New Mexico, at Redlands and in the Imperial Valley, and while there
bought two half sections of land. In Los Angeles he took up real estate
subdivision work, first subdividing a tract southwest of the city. He
then organized and incorporated the N. A. Ross Realty Company, of
which he was president and general manager, and with offices in the
Hellman Building. This company subdivided about five tracts in Los
Angeles, and paid the stockholders 350 per cent dividends, and in the
end gave each about six and a half dollars for every one invested. Mr.
Ross finally bought out the other stockholders, dissolving the company,
and has operated under his individual name.
For several years he has been developing his ranches in the Imperial
Valley, and also has ranch property in Riverside county. He is president
and general manager of the De Luxe Groves and Water Company of
Riverside, owning a hundred seventy acres planted to oranges. The
property all told consists of two hundred and five acres, with complete
water rights and other improvements. He is also associated in another
six hundred and ninety acre ranch, with ninety acre_s planted to oranges
and deciduous fruits at Riverside, with A. B. Taylor of Los Angeles, a
retired banker of Ohio. His ranch lands in the Imperial Valley are de-
veloped for dairying purposes. Mr. Ross has three hundred and twenty
acres just outside of El Centro, and six hundred and forty near Holt-
ville, and much of this is now ready for subdivision purposes. Mr. Ross
is a recognized genius in the subdivision business, and its constructive
features and possibilities of widespread benefit make a strong appeal to
him.
With his family, he is a member of the Christian Church at Holly-
wood, where he resides. June 7, 1893, at Kissimmee, Florida, he mar-
ried Miss Hettie A. Wilson, of Somerset, Kentucky, where she was born
and educated. She is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Pprch) Wil-
son, representing old families of Kentucky. Mrs. Ross is a member of
the Woman's Club of Hollywood, but otherwise has been devoted to
her home and family. They have four children, Eugene W., Nelson A.
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Jr., Mary Elizabeth and Nellie. The three oldest are students of the
University of California at Berkeley, while Nellie is in the Hollywood
High School, from which the others are graduates.
Harris Newmark. It would have been a remarkable experience to
have been merely a contemporary witness of the development of Los
Angeles from a village of four or five thousand population, largely com-
posed of the original Spanish or Mexican element and the Aborigines,
into one of the great cities of America, thriving and prospering with all
the varied life and complex institutions of modern existence. It is hardly
sufficient to call the late Harris Newmark, who arrived in Los Angeles in
1853, merely a witness of the changing panorama which unfolded around
him. His vigor was too insistent, his enterprise too constant, his influ-
ence too steadily directed upon large projects intimately identified with
the commercial and civic fortunes of the city, to give him a lesser place
than that of one of the most stalwart figures in her earlier annals.
The life of this pioneer merchant and benefactor of Los Angeles
began at Loebau, West Prussia, July 5, 1834, a son of Philip and Esther
(Meyer) Newmark. Philip Newmark was born in 1795, and was a
manufacturer of ink and blacking in Germany and Sweden.
J. P. Newmark, the older brother of Harris, and also a California
pioneer, located in Los Angeles early in the fifties. Harris, after com-
pleting his education in Germany, followed him and arrived here October
25, 1853. For ten months he and his brother were associated in business,
and during that time Harris Newmark made rapid progress in the
English and Spanish languages. In business, too, slowly though con-
sistently, he made headway until in 1865 he established the then most
important business in Los Angeles, first known as H. Newmark and ihen
as H. Newmark & Company, wholesale grocers. General Phineas Ban-
ning was for a time associated with him in this enterprise. In 1885
M. A. Newmark & Compan)- succeeded H. Newmark & Company, and
is still one of the very influential firms of the city.
Los Angeles, for many years the center of a little world in itself,
has now been completely consolidated with the outside by every agency
of modern transportation and coinmunication. When Harris Newmark
entered business in Los Angeles there was, in vivid contrast with this
condition, an exceedingly limited local production, and the staple com-
modities of the world's market could be brought in only by laborious
overland pioneer transportation or by the slow-moving commerce borne
by sailing vessels. In those early days Mr. Newmark not infrequently
supplied trains of wagons that made their weary way across broad
expanses of territory, and curiously enough he carried his trade farther
into the interior than is generally done today.
When he retired from the wholesale grocery business in 1886 Mr.
Newmark became a member of the firm of K. Cohn & Company, hide
and wool merchants. Ten years later the firm was divided, Mr. Cohn
taking over the wool and Mr. Newmark continuing the hide branch. The
latter business was continued after he formally retired in 1906 and is
now A. Brownstein & Company.
Practically from the beginning of his residence Harris Newmark
showed his faith by investing in Los Angeles and Southern California
properties, and in later years his various real estate holdings and other
interests were incorporated under the Harris Newmark Company, of
which he became president. Many years ago Mr. Newmark acquired
extensive holdings in the San Gabriel Valley, and owned the eight
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thousand odd acres known then and since as the Santa Anita Ranch,
which in 1875 he sold to E. J. (Luck\ j Baldwin. He figured in many
other big deals. About forty years ago he bought the Temple Block
site, now a proposed location for the Los Angeles City Hall, and was
president of the Temple Block Company, the corporation which he
formed for its management. In 1875 he bought the Vejar Vineyard,
facing on Washington street. This property, long since subdivided
lies in the ver}' heart of what is now Los Angeles' most active industrial
district. In 1886 he acquired the Repetta ranch of five thousand acres,
and subdivided it into five thousand lots. On this land have been built
the towns of Montebello and Newmark ; and here also is now unfolding
one of the richest oil fields in California.
These are only a few of the individual instances of his business
enterprise. That enterprise for half a century was one of the effective
forces in the development and progress of Los Angeles, and the city
has always regarded him as one of the most important of that coterie
of pioneers who laid the foundations of all that we possess today.
He was one of the charter memibers of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce, one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Board of Trade
and a member of its first Board of Directors, one of the organizers of
the Los Angeles Public Library, and for many years president of the
Los Angeles Congregation B'nai B'rith. He was also identified with
the Southwest JMuseum, endowed part of the Jewish Oirphans Home in
memory of his wife, was a member of the Los Angeles County Pioneer
Society, National Farm School Association, and many philanthropic or-
ganizations. He was a charter member of the California Club, and
became a member of Los Angeles Lodge No. 42, A. F. & A. M., in 1858.
His liberality was as well known as his business prominence. It is
recalled that at Ihe time of the Johnstown flood he took the lead in raising
ri purse for the victims, and this was the first money received for that
jnirpose by the Governor of Pennsylvania.
It seems singularly approjjriate that one who for fifty years was so
keen an observer of the romantic and almost miraculous development
of this great southwest should leave a record of the drama that he had
seen unfold around him. It therefore afforded great pleasure and satis-
faction to thousands of students of history and of citizens of Southern
California when in 1915 Mr. Newmark published his "Sixty Years in
Southern California,"' a volume whose six hundred fifty pages are replete
with interesting stories and illustrations of the adobe days and the
adobeites. The publication of this work came when his long life was
drawing toward its close. Harris Newmark died April 4, 1916.
In Los Angeles on March 24, 1858, he married Sarah Newmark,
who died in 1910. They were the parents of eleven children. Those
still living are: Maurice H. ; Estelle, wife of the late Leon Loeb:
I'-mily. w^ho married Jacob Loew ; Ella, wife t)f Carl Seligman ; and
Marco R.
M.xuRiCE Harris Newmark. Long before the high tide of Harris
Newmark's activities and vitalities had passed they were supplemented
by the younger energies of his son, Maurice Harris Newmark, whose
enterprise for over a third of a century has been identified with many of
Los Angeles' greatest and broadest enterprises.
The son was bom at Los Angeles March 3, 1859, and such capa-
liilities as he inherited from his parents were strengthened by his early
environment and training. As a boy, from 1865 to 1872, he attended
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private and public school in Los Angeles. Then, after a year at New
York City, he was sent abroad and finished his education in Paris.
The year of his return to Los .Angeles, 1876, marked his connection
with the house of H. Newmark & Company, wholesale grocers, which
had been establishetl since 1865. When the elder Newmark retired from
that business in 1885 the son wtis promoted to a full partnership and
the first vice-presidency in the succeeding firm of M. A. Newmark &
Company.
Mr. Newmark is one of that class of American business men whose
activities in outside affairs broaden as their private responsibilities grow.
He is president of the Harris Newmark Company, vice-president of
the Los Angeles Brick Company, and is a director in other firms. He
was president of the rVssociated Jobbers from its organization in 1899
until 1912, and from 1903 was president of the Southern California
\\ holesale Grocers Association until his resignation in 1916. He has
also served as director of the Merchants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion, the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Southwest Museum,
and has been identified with practically every worthy movement intended
for the civic and commercial betterment of Southern California.
An opportunity for broad public service, following his connection
with the movement to consolidate San Pedro Harbor with Los Angeles,
was accepted when he became a harbor commissioner of Los .Vngeles in
1909. He has been a leader in many of those movements directed toward
the realization of a greater Los Angeles.
Mr. Newmark, in spite of his many activities, finds time to devote
to serious as well as to lighter amusements. He is an enthusiastic
fisherman. Nearly every boy has a fascination for collecting ])ostage
stamps. That boyhood enthusiasm Mr. Newmark has cultivated sedu-
lously for over half a century, and is said to have a very fine and s]ie-
cialized stamp collection. He is a member of the .\merican Philatelic
Society. He was one of the editors of his father's notable work, "Sixty
Years in Southern California," and is a member of the Book Club of
California, Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles County
Pioneers Society, the Hispanic Society of California. Mr. Newmark is
a republican, a member of the Concordia and Jonathan Clubs of Los
.Angeles, San Gabriel \'alley Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and is a
Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Shrine.
At San Francisco July 3, 1888, he married Miss Rose Newmark,
daughter of Joseph I'. Newmark. They have one daughter, Florence
Newmark Kaufifman, v\ife of P. L. Kaufl'man, president of H. J. Crocker
& Company, San Francisco.
Albert G. B.\rti.ett. During the past forty years no name has
been more intimately and nifluentially associated with musical history
in Los Angeles than that of Albert G. Bartlett, the veteran music dealer
and friend and associate of artistic talent.
Mr. Bartlett, who is now retired, was born in Devonshire, Eng-
land, March 28, 1850. When he was ibout five years of age his parents,
Samuel and Elizabeth Bartlett, came to this country and located at
Adrian, Michigan. He received his education there, graduating from
high school at the age of sixteen. For three years he was employed as
clerk in a dry goods store, and then became assistant bookkeeper for a
large manufacturing plant. In the summer of 1871 his employers sent
him to Chicago to get more extended business experience and he was
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there until Chicago was destroyed by fire, October 8, 187L Mr. Bartlett
came West to San Francisco in 1874, and in January, 1875, arrived in
Los Ang les. For a time he was located in Ventura, associated with his
brother, Charles G. Bartlett, in the jewelry, music and stationery business.
On the 4th of July, 1875, Mr. Bartlett earned more money than he ever
had on any one day in his experience and found the opening where his
talents could work to their best advantage. He was paid twenty dollars
for playing a cornet in a local band that Independence day. Soon he
began teaching music, organized bands around the country, and these
organizations did much to bring business to his store. He organized
the first local company to produce the opera Pinafore in Southern Cali-
fornia, and sang the tenor roles in that and many other of the popular
comic operas. In 1881 Mr. Bartlett turned the Ventura business over
to his brother and returned to Los Angeles, starting a music house oppo-
site the old Nadeau Hotel, on First Street. For a time he conducted a
music class twice a week in the University of Southern California. Dur-
ing these days he organized the Seventh Regiment Band, and it at once
became a feature of the flower festivals of that time and made trips to
St. Louis, San Francisco and other places as escort to Grand Army and
Masonic organizations. He occupied the position of bandmaster for
eight years.
In 1883 his store was moved to the Nadeau Hotel, was there three
years, then to the Wilson Block, on an opposite corner. While the
store was there Mr. Bartlett was instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti
to Los Angeles, and twenty thousand dollars worth of tickets for her
concert were sold at his store. After six years in the Wilson Block,
the business moved to the Philips Block, on North Spring, near First
Street. Three years later increasing business called for larger quarters
and a new home was taken in the Shumacher Block at 103 North Spring,
and that store became the rendezvous for many famous artists while in
Los Angeles. It was here many interesting concerts were given in the
Bartlett music room by Chevalier DeKontski, the famous Polish pianist,
then an exile from his country. After seven years Mr. Bartlett moved to
the old Orpheum Theatre Building, on Spring Street, and six ytears later
became a Broadway booster with quarters opposite the City Hall, where
was developed a large and prosperous business. After another six years
in those quarters, failing in health, he turned over his great and pros
perous business to his old employes, and, now retired, he has private
interests of large magnitude to take up his time. He has always been
a great booster for all city interests and was elected to the Board of
Education from the Third Ward in 1896, and, acting in that capacity, was'
instrumental in introducing a fine system of music in our public schools.
Mr. Bartlett was elected president of the City Club in 1917, and
again honored with the same office in 1919. He is a York Rite Mason,
Knight Templar and the first candidate to be initiated in Al Malaikah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Los Angeles
Athletic Club, is a republican and a believer in the Christian Science
faith. At Ventura, January 19, 1882, he married Mae Ann McKeeby,
daughter of the late Judge L. C. McKeeby. They have two daughters,
Bessie H. and Florence E., the latter at home. Bessie is the wife of
Cecil Frankel of Los Angeles and is past vice president of the Holly-
wood Women's Club and now president of the State Music League and
district president of the National Federation of Music Clubs.
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George Mack. For the past dozen years George Mack has been a
factor in the oil and other development work in the Southwest, and has
become well known among the mining interests centered at Los Angeles.
He is a thorough business man, has had wide training in various affairs,
and closed one of the largest deals in oil property transacted in recent
years.
Mr. Mack was born in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, December 31,
1863, son of George and Mary (Hodge) Mack. When he was a child
his parents moved to Stuart, Iowa, where he acquired his education in
the grammar and high schools and later in the State Normal School.
When he was nineteen years old he went to the Northwest to seek his
opportunities, and at Salem, Oregon, was deputy county clerk of Marion
County for three years. At Portland, Oregon, he was associated with
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company, wholesale implement dealers, as
superintendent of their collection department for ten years. Resigning
this office, he removed to Wallowa County, Oregon, and was cashier of
the First Bank of Joseph until 1907.
Mr. Mack came to Los Angeles in 1907 to become associated with
E. A. Montgomery, a boyhood friend, in the varied and important mining
and other interests of the latter. Mr. Mack became treasurer of the
Skidoo Mines Company, owned and operated by Mr. Montgomery. Since
1914 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Paunco Excelsior Oil
Company, whose chief property is in the Paunco district, near Tampico,
Mexico. In 1917 Mr. Mack accomplished the closing of the sale of the
Paunco Excelsior Oil Company property to the Standard Oil Company,
a transaction involving a million dollars. Mr. Mack is also secretary
and treasurer of the Topila Petroleum Company.
Mr. Mack, whose offices are in the Investment Building, in Los
Angeles, is a member of the Masonic Order, the Elks, and is a republican
voter. At Salem, Oregon, April 11, 1888, he married Lo Ruhamah
Chapman. They have two daughters, Nina, wife of H. S. Gibson of
Joseph, Oregon, and Helen, wife of A. K. Parker, cashier of a bank at
Enterprise, Oregon.
Girls' Collegiate School. There are many facts that contribute
to the impressive record of the Girls' Collegiate School of Los Angeles.
Established in September, 1892, as a day school, it has completed twenty-
six years of work, and has steadily increased in numbers of pupils, and
especially in its reputation for sound, wholesome ,and efficient training.
It is a school where apparenily most successful effort has been made
to judiciously apportion the emphasis placed upon different departments.
Scholarship has not been exalted at the expense of health, personality
and character, which are considered as essential as intellectual training,
and specialized functions have not taken precedence over life in its
broadest and most liberal sense.
The school has graduated twenty-one classes, and more than four
hundred girl graduates have had this school as their environment during
their most impressionable years.
The principals and founders of the school, Miss Parsons and Miss
Dennen, had about fifty pupils under their direction as scholars the
first year. The first home of the school was at Tenth and Olive Streets.
Larger quarters soon had to be secured, and then in a few years a
second removal was necessary. This time they secured a building at
Grand Avenue and Washington Street, and at that time were equipped
to receive a few boarding pupils. The present home of the Girls' Col-
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legiate School is at the southeast corner of South Hoover Street and
Adams Street, where they have grounds comprising about two acres,
in the older residence section. Adams Street has long been famous for
the beauty of its trees and its charming homes. And even today many
might pass and regard the beautiful buildings of the school as a private
residence. The main building is known as the Casa de Rosas, and it
is not difficult to understand how it has been frequently called the most
artistic and complete private school building in Southern California. It
is built in the pure Spanish Renaissance style, surrounding a large patio,
with all the workrooms opening upon the court. Adjoining it is a one-
story building, in harmony with the architecture of the larger building,
used for a gymnasium, and in September, 1915, the Rose Court was
added as another charming Spanish building to the group.
With these buildings and with facilities added from time to time,
this is now one of the largest girls' schools in Los Angeles. There are
accommodations for sixty boarding or residence students, and about a
hundred fifty pupils can be cared for both as resident and day scholars.
Besides the two principals, there is a faculty of about twenty-five
instructors, many of whom are graduates of noted colleges and univer-
sities of the East and have had extensive foreign training. The curri-
culum oiifers opportunities for generous education, beginning with the
equivalent of the eighth grade of the grammar school and including a
regular academic or high school department and also post-graduate
department. The Academic Department embraces College Preparatory,
General, Fine Arts, Home-Making courses, and also special courses in
Music, Art, Expression, Domestic Art and Business. Graduates from the
Art Department, of which Miss Edith Hynes is at the head, receive cer-
tificates which are recognized by all universities. A graduate of the Ex-
pression Department is accepted as a junior in the School of Oratory of
Northwestern University. The school established its business or com-
mercial department in 1915, and also a department for secretarial train-
ing. This department has been so generously patronized that the man-
agers are now preparing to erect a separate building for that branch of
the school.
While the doing of useful things is an object and ideal never lost
sight of, the pupils find constant encouragement and opportunity for
physical recreation and education. There is gymnasium work, aesthetic
dancing, swimming, tennis, riding and, owing to the good fortune of the
climate of the school's home, practically all its activities present oppor-
tunities for the enjoyment of outdoor life.
Miss Jeanne W. Dennen was born in Boston, while Miss Alice K.
Parson, the other principal, is a native of New York City. The former
is a graduate of Mrs. Cady's School for Girls at New Haven, while Miss
Parsons is a graduate of Wells College. Miss Dennen first taught in
the Packer Institute at Brooklyn, and in 1885 she became associated with
Miss Parsons, who had spent two years abroad after graduating from
Wells, and they opened a girls' school in Brooklyn. From that city
they came to Los Angeles in 1892 and laid the foundation of the school
which their careful work and efficient supervision liave brought to the
standards that it today enjoys.
C. Fred Grundy before coming to Los Angeles had the distinction
of conducting the second largest house furnishing goods establishment
in Canada, and also had a record as a successful financier and invest-
ment banker in Chicago. Mr. Grundy is now the Los Angeles repre-
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sentative of Andrews & Company, an organization with a world-wide
reputation in financial circles. Andrews & Company while now serving
a clientele of hundreds of thousands through the main and branch
offices scattered all over the country founded by A. M. Andrews, pres-
ent head of the corporation, in 1900, with only desk room in the Woman's
Temple building in Chicago. From the first business has been conducted
on a high plane of investment banking. tThe company originated the
cumulative convertible preferred stock plan of investment and they have
handled a large list of stable stocks and bonds and have also specialized
in industrial and motor issues.
Mr. Grundy was born at London, Ontario, Canada, August 14,
1874, son of William and Amelia Charlotte (Lintott) Grundy. His
parents moved to Winnipeg when he was a child and he there attended
the grammar and high schools, graduating at the age of fifteen. In
1892 he completed his course in the University of Manitoba, and then
engaged in the general agency business at Winnipeg. In 1896, on
account of his father's ill health, he took charge of the latter's piano
and music house and his youth and initiative soon supplied a tremendous
impetus to this modest concern. He broadened its scope into a general
house furnishing goods business, and in less than ten years had made
it the second largest concern of its kind in Canada. From an annual
volume of business of about sixty thousand dollars, he increased it to
about nine hundred thousand dollars annually, and had an immense
stock distributed over eight floors, each 90x195 feet.
Selling this great mercantile emporium in 1906 Mr. Grundy removed
to Chicago as representative for Hunter, Cooper & Company, of Lon-
don, England. He represented this firm in the investment business until
1909, when he resigned and removed to Los Angeles. Here he resumed
the business of loaning money and later was interested in the automo-
bile business and oil development. In 1913 he returned to the invest-
ment and banking business, handling stocks and bonds. Mr. Grundy
has been manager for Andrews & Company since 1916, having charge
of the Pacific Coast division comprising all the territory west of Denver.
Andrews & Company are not promoters, but confine their attention
strictly to financing large institutions, especially those manufacturing
goods of a national reputation and sale. Perhaps no one fact is of
greater significance in estimating the business of this company through
its main and twenty-one branch offices than the statement that fre-
quently as high as fifty thousand dollars is paid out in a single month
for long distance telephone tolls.
Mr. Grundy has become well known in Los Angeles social and
business life, is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Anan-
dale Country Club, and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and a
Methodist. At Winnipeg, Canada, in March, 1896, he married Dollie
Coultry. They are the parents of two children, Harols A., born in
1896, and Alma B., a graduate of the Cumnock School for Girls. The
son is a graduate of the Polytechnic High School, also had training in
a business college, and was in the office equipment department of Barker
Bros, when the war broke out. April 2, 1917, he enlisted in the navy
and was on duty on the Destroyer Davis and Cruiser St. Louis. He
niade three round trips to Europe during the war, and at present is
signal quartermaster on the government Transport Imperator.
Martin V. McQuigg. Without the definite talent for organization
with which a few men of the many are endowed, the opening up of new
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territories, the development of natural resources and the expansion
of business would often be delayed. This organizing faculty, working
on a stable business foundation, produces marvelous results that benefit
the entire sphere of commercial life. In this connection attention may
be called to a man of great achievement in this line, Martin V. McQuigg,
who has home and maintains offices at Los Angeles. Mr. McQuigg
has been officially connected* with many of the greatest developments in
the oil industry in the country for a number of years, and in addition
to other positions of prominence, is president of the American Fuel,
Oil & Transportation Company, which company recently made the larg-
est single contract for the purchase of fuel oil in the history of the
United States, the quantity being over 100,000,000 barrels, several ships
having been chartered and twent}^ 10,000 ton tankers are now under con-
struction for the delivery of this oil in Europe.
Martin V. McQuigg was born in Wright County, Missouri, Septem-
ber 15, 1861, His parents were Martin V. and Frances (Weaver)
McQuigg. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age,
then entered a general store in a clerical capacity, at a salary of $200 a
year for the first eighteen months, after that receiving a share of the
profits, and by the time he was twenty years old was so highly appre-
ciated for business sagacity, that he was admitted to partnership.
In 1889 Mr. McQuigg sold his store interest and went to Ontario,
Cal., where he organized the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier
and a director for ten years, when he resigned the office of cashier, but
is still a stockholder of the bank. During this interval he had organized
a number of irrigation water companies. In 1900 he went to Kern county,
California, where he began oil operating and organized the Euclid Oil
Company, and the Globe Oil Company, and is yet president of both
companies. In 1902 he organized the Monterey County Gas & Electric
Company, of which he was president, this company operating the water,
electric light and gas systems of Salinas ; the gas, electric light and
electric railway system of Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz and Capitola, Cali-
fornia, and the Watsonville Railway, of Watsonville, California, which
was later merged with the Santa Cruz Electric Railway, which later
became the Union Traction Conipan}'. Mr. McQuigg sold his interests
in 1906.
In 1902 he organized the Independent Oil Company, of which he
was president for one year and treasurer and director since then. One
of his associates in the organization of this company was Hon. Franklin
K. Lane, secretary of the United States Interior Department. In 1907
Mr. McQuigg again exercised his faculty for business organization, in
founding the Exchange National Bank of Long Beach. California, of
which he was manager until 1914, when he sold out. In 1907 he also
organized the Traders Oil Company, of which he is president, and in
1918 he organized the Traders Oil Corporation, formed to acquire the
interests of the Traders and other oil companies. In 1919 he organized
the American Fuel, Oil and Transportation Company of Delaware, with
offices at 170 Broadway, New York City, of which company he is presi-
dent. This company has absorbed the Traders Oil Company and has
large interests in South America, owning three and a half million acres
of land there. The company is engaged in oil producing, transportation
enterprises, in oil, marketing and refining, and also owns a large acre-
age in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Mexico. Only men of the keenest
business capacity and commercial experience can successfully handle an
enterprise of such vast proportions.
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Mr. McQuigg was married at Seymour, Missouri, December 25,
1884, to Miss Clara Robertson, who died in 1899, survived by three
children: Frank, who is general field manager of the Traders Oil Com-
pany; Harry, who is petroleum engineer, has charge of the Kansas
development for the Traders Oil Company ; and Clara Louise, who resides
at home. Mr. McQuigg's second marriage took place at Pasadena,
California, June 22, 1905, to Miss Annie Wood, whose father. Almon
Wood, came to California with the pioneers.
John Joseph Gilligan, who came to California ten years ago, has
earned one of the most conspicuous successes in the field of liability
insurance, and is now managing head and proprietor of a general insur-
ance business hardly second to any in that state.
There were numerous shifts and varying experiences in the early
life of Mr. Gilligan before he accommodated himself to his right and
proper field of work. He was born at Brooklyn, New York, January
23, 1880, a son of Daniel and Catherine (Cooney) Gilligan. His boy-
hood was spent at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and after graduat-
ing from high school in 1898 he earned some valuable experience in the
office of a Wall Street broker. About a year later he made progress to
a clerkship in the First National Bank of New York. In another year
he was back at Irvington with his father as his business associate. His
father was a contractor in interior decorating, and the son not only
helped execute but also design som^ of A^^y^^^iif the firm during the
next three years. XXolcJo'l
In 1903 Mr. Gilligan sought a very different experience to anything
he Iiad had before when he became a ranchman and cowboy in Kansas,
and the life appealed to him so strongly that he took up a homestead
of a hundred sixty acres. His enthusiasm for this sort of thing soon
wore off, and he returned to New York. For a year he was city sales-
man for F. A. Foster & Company, one of the largest cotton goods art
drapery houses in the world. Again going west, he left Denver to join
the rush to the mines at Goldfield, Nevada, in 1905, and for nearly a
year was prospecting and mining though with results hardly satisfac-
tory to him.
Soon after that experience Mr. Gilligan, having returned to Denver,
was appointed assistant manager of the American Surety Company of
New York for the four states of Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and
New Mexico. It was congenial work, and more so because it demon-
strated his remarkable ability to handle it with a high degree of skdl and
profit to the company. For several years he was with that company,
but in 1909 resigned to move to Los Angeles. Here he was appointed
special agent for the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, who
later transferred him to San Francisco. In December, 1910, he accepted
appointment as casualty manager for the Fidelity and Deposit Company
of Maryland, having the entire state of California as his territory. Then
in the spring of 1912 he was made southwestern manager for the com-
pany, his territory being southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
In 1915 Mr. Gilligan resigned as manager of the Fidelity and De-
posit Company of Maryland to enter the general insurance business for
himself. He now has the general agency of Southern California Terri-
tory for the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York, the
Georgia Casualty Company of Macon, Georgia, and the American Indem-
nity Company of Galveston, Texas. He also has several other agencies
for Los Angeles territory, and the volume of business transacted through
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his personal efforts now runs a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year
in premiums, and because of his peculiar ability and success in this field
he has given up all his sub-agencies in Southern California. Mr. Gilli-
gan is now organizing The Motor Truck Club Auto Inter-Insurance
Exchange, which he will serve as attorney.
He is secretary of the Motor Truck Club and is affiliated with the
Elks, Knights of Columbus, and Los Angeles Athletic Club.
June 15, 1909, at Denver, he married Miss Margaret A. Goodwin.
They have four children: Jos:ph, born in 1910; Francis Gerald, born
in 1911 ; Lucile Helen, born in 1914; and John J., Jr., born in 1916. The
two older sons are now attending St. Brendan's School.
Raymond H. Willard. Mr. Willard's chief range of experience
before coming to Los Angeles was as a Chicago banker, but in this city
he has been increasingly identified with the contracting business and
as head of the Willard-Brent Company has handled a large number of
important construction contracts in the city and surrounding territory.
Mr. Willard was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1883. In
1884 his parents James R. and Julia Maria (Hobart) Willard moved
west to Union City, Michigan, where the son acquired his early educa-
tion in the grammar and high schools. In 1898 at the age of fifteen he
went to Chicago and finished his education in the Manual Training
School, from which he graduated in 1901. The next three years he
was employed in a general round of duties with the Drovers National
Bank of Chicago, and left that to become cashier in the Kenwood Trust
& Savings Bank, one of the larger outlying banks in the Chicago district.
Mr. Willard came to Los Angeles in 1907. Here he organized the
Willard-Slater Company, general contractors, and was president of that
company until 1915. Having sold his interests, he organized a new
company, The Willard-Brent Company, of which he is president and
treasurer, with Edward I. Brent, vice president and secretary.
It will best serve to indicate the character of the company's business
to mention some of the important buildings recently erected by tliem, as
follows : Loretta Street School, Manchester Avenue School, Marengo
Avenue School, Chercmoyo Avenue School, cafeteria building for the
Los Angeles high school, the fifty thousand dollar home of Dr. E. A.
Bryant on West Adams Street, the thirty thousand dollar residence of
A. Getty at Wilshire and Hohart Boulevard, the addition to the Angelus
Mesa School, in 1917 ; the office building of the Hill Chemical Company
at 6th and San Pedro Streets. The firm is now constructing one of the
units of the Hollywood High School.
Mr. Willard, who is unmarried, is a member of the Masonic bodies
in the York Rite and Shrine, of the Episcopal Church, and is a repub-
lican voter.
William Clayton McMullen is proprietor of Mack's Paint Shop,
a business of distinctive service to automobile owners. No one will
take issue with us when we say that Mr. McMullen is a pioneei in this
branch of the automobile industry, as he was engaged in the painting of
vehicles long before the motor driven car made its appearance anywhere.
Investigation discloses the fact that most of the successful automobile
paint shops and top manufacturing plants are owned or managed by
men who served their time or finished their training under Mack.
A brief survey of Mr. McMullen's career discloses the following
facts :
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He was born at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, 1868, son of Hiram
F. and Phoebe (Bininger) McMullen. His parents soon after his birth
moved to Bellville, Ontario. He finished his trade at Watertown, New
York, with the Union Carriage and Gear Company, where he served and
mastered each branch of the wort:, from ground work, color mixing and
paint making, up to the zenith of a carriage painter's possibilities, namely,
body finishing, striping, and monogram designing. Few men in these
days of highly specialized training can boast of such wide experience.
He left the above firm to finish bodies for the Babcock Carriage Works.
It was while at Watertown, New York, that Mr. McMullen met and
married Miss Cordelia Simmons. They have two children, Harry B.,
born in 1896, and Lena. The son gradated from high school and busi-
ness college and was engaged in drafting maps and signs for the Auto-
mobile Club of Southern California, until he entered the hrdlu hrdlu uu
the termination of the war he has been taking an active part in his fath-
er's business. Lena, the daughter is a graduate of Los Angeles High
School and is now specializing in a private school.
Mr. McMullen, soon after his marriage became connected with the
Durant and Dort Carriage Works of Flint, Michigan, as superintendent
of one of their factories. During his stay of five years with the above
concern, the manufacture of automobiles had become a thriving industry,
and with a desire to keep up with the times he determined to connect
with an automobile manufacturing plant at the earliest opportunity.
With this purpose in mind he decided to go to California where the
lure of the climate and remarkably good roads would be sure to draw
motorists.
Leaving Flint, Michigan, in 1903, Mr. McMullen came directly to
Los Angeles and soon became foreman of the Tourist Paint Shop, where
he remained for three years. Accepting a position with the Durocar
Manufacturing Company as foreman of the paint department, he soon
thereafter, in connection with his brother, H. F. McMullen, bought out
the painting department of the business and renamed same "Mack's
Duro Paint Shop." Mr. W. C. McMullen acquired his brother's interest
in 1910 and since conducted the business under the registered name of
"Mack's Paint Shop."
In 1913 he moved from his first location at 945 South Los Angeles
Street, to 1010-1012 South Los Angeles Street, a building constructed
to comply with his ideas, but with the ever increasing demand for his
work, and also because of the installation of a top and unholstering de-
partment in the same shop in 1916, he found himself terribly crowded,
and in January, 1918, moved into a specially constructed and much
larger building at 1215-1217 South Los Angeles Street.
At the present writing the needs of the business will require the
addition of an upper loft very soon and which can, without great incon-
venience be added, because provision was made by the builders for such
an addition.
Mr. McMullen and his son are Shriners, both being members of Al
Malaikah Temple of Los Angeles.
Elon G. Galusha became a member of the Los Angeles bar fifteen
years ago, and his abilities have steadily promoted him to a front rank
among the corporation and probate attorneys of Southern California.
Mr. Galusha represents one of the old colonial families of New
York State. He was born at Rochester, August 25, 1877, son of Charles
Colgate and Margaret Elizabeth (Gilbert) Galusha. He graduated from
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the Rochester High School in 1895, received his degree A. B. from the
University of Rochester in 1899, also holds the degree Master of Arts
from the same institution, and did his law work in the Albany Law
School, which gave him the degree LL. B. and honorary' mention for
his work on the subject of corporation law. In the meantime he was
acquiring practical and technical experience in the offices of Mead &
Hatt at Albany, and under Hon. A. J. Rodenbech, later Judge of the
Court of Claims of New York. After his admission to the bar Mr.
Galusha practiced with John Voorhis and Sons at Rochester, but in
December, 1902, came to Los Angeles. He was in the office of Hon.
John D. Pope and on the latter's motion was admitted to the bar April
6, 1903, by the Supreme Court. He continued to be associated with Mr.
Pope for two years and has since practiced alone, making a specialty
of corporation law and probate work. He has also served as a member
of the faculty of the New Southwestern College of Law and is author
of several articles on legal procedure. Mr. Galusha has served as direc-
tor in several corporations, among them, California Fruit, Candy and
Cereals Company, a corporation organized to make a fruit-candy out
of the California fruits. He is a republican, member of Sons of the
Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and the Phi Delta Phi fraternity.
Christie Brothers. Probably as much credit is due the Christie
brothers, Alfred E. and Charles H., for making Los Angeles the greatest
center in the world for the production of film plays as to any other
two men. With their resources combined and incorporated as the Christie
Film Company, not only Los Angeles but the world knows the results
of their splendid organization.
Alfred E. Christie was born at London, Ontario, Canada, October
23, 1881, son of George and Mary (Jarvis) Christie. At the age of
seventeen having in the meantime lived at home and attended the
grammar and high schools of London, he went into the theatrical pro-
fession, his first work being in the London Opera House. He was there
in various minor capacities and roles from 1903 to 1909. For a time
he was among the producing force of the Liebler Company under George
C. Tyler and Hugh Ford, and at the close of his stage affiliation was
with the May Irwin Company.
He left the legitimate end to take charge of the Nestor Motion
Picture Company at Bayonne, New Jersey. That was the first inde-
pendent motion picture producing company in the United States. In
1911 Mr. Christie brought three companies out to California, establish-
ing them at Hollywood on the present site of the Christie Studio. This
was the first studio of its kind in Hollywood, and it was the initiative of
Mr. Christie that brought Hollywood its fame as a producing center
of the motion picture drama In 1912 the Nestor Company was ab-
sorbed by the Universal Company, j\Ir. Christie continuing as director
and supervisor of comedy productions until 1916.
In that year he and his brother Charles H., formed the Christie
Film Company as a partnership, purchasing the original studio site of
the Nestor Company. In September, 1917, they incorporated as the
Christie Film Company, with Alfred E. as president and Charles H
as secretary and treasurer. All the facilities of their great organization
and their plant in Hollywood are now devoted solely to the Christie
Comedies.
Alfred E. Christie is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
His brother Charles H. Christie, who was also born in London,
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Ontario, and was a pupil in the grammar and high schools there until
1898, was formerly a railroad man. He was employed in the passenger
department of the Grand Trunk, later had charge of that company's
advertising for the Ontario Division until 1903. Following that he was
a commercial salesman representmg an (Jntario house, and later had
charge of a large department store in Ontario until 1915.
He is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Friars Club
of New York City, and in October, 1902, at London, Ontario, married
Miss Edna Durand, daughter of the late George F. Durand, a prominent
Canadian architect. Mrs. Christie died July 16, 1918.
Howard Frost, In the clay products industry of Southern Cali-
fornia and the West no name has stood for more constructive effort
and a larger scojie of enterprise than Frost. Howard Frost is now presi-
dent of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, a great industry which
was founded by his father the late Charles H. Frost, in 1887.
Charles H. Frost, who died October 9, 1916, deserves to rank high
among the business builders of Los Angeles. He was born at Ithaca.
New York, June 9, 1844, son of George P. and Eliza Little (Benjamin)
Frost. His grandfather George P. Frost, was a captain in the Revolu-
tionary Army. Charles H. Frost received his early education in Ithaca
and Chicago, and finally in a high school at Quincy, Illinois. In 1862.
at the age of eighteen he left school and as his father refused to permit
him to enlist as a fighting man he took employment in the commissan-
department as a civilian at Chicago. Two years later he was transferred
to the quartermaster's department at Cincinnati and ])romoted to cashier,
where he remained two years more.
His first business was life insurance, connected with the Home
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. He became its secre-
tary and in 1868 resigned to join the United States Life Insurance Com-
pany of New York as manager of the western department. He con-
tinued that work until 1877.
Charles H. Frost first entered the jiressed brick business in 1877,
when he organized a large company with a capital of five hundred thou-
sand dollars in Chicago. He was made general manager and was its
directing head for ten years. He acquired an independent fortune in
the business, and came to California in 1887. ISeing unwilling to retire
he organized in 1887 the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, and be-
came its president and general manager. The business was capitalized
for $500,000 and some of the foremost business men of Los Angeles
were associated with Mr. Frost in the enterprise. The main plant is at
Los Angeles and there are other plants at Santa Monica, Point Rich-
mond, and the newest and one of tlie largest at .Vlberhill, Riverside
County, and the output is distributed throughout the coast. Charles H.
Frost was a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, of the
Building Trades Club of New York and the Jonathan Club of Los An-
geles, and was a thirty-second degree Mason. On November 19, 1869.
at Davenport, Iowa, he married Helen I. Sherman. They became the
parents of two children, Lida E., Mrs. L. J. Huft' and Howard.
Howard Frost was born in Chicago, August 28, 1883, and was a
small child when brought to Los Angeles. He entered the public schobls
in 1889 and at the age of thirteen attended the Gunnery School for Boys
at Washington, Connecticut, for four years, the Belmont School for
Boys at Belmont, California, a year and a half, spent one year in Occi-
dental College in Los Angeles, and completed his education with another
year at the University of Southern California.
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After leaving school Mr. Frost entered the Los Angeles Pressed
Brick Company and started in at the factory for the purpose of acquir-
ing a thorough practical knowledge of every phase of the business. His
first duties were that of shipping clerk and timekeeper, and he worked
in all the various departments from the factory to the general offices.
He was general manager of the Richmond plant during the first year
of its operation in 1907. Later he was elected vice-president and
in 1913 became president of this prominent corporation. He is also
a director of the Business Men's Co-operative Association, is a mem'ier
of Sunset Lodge No. 352, A. F. & A. M., Jonathan Club, Los Angeles
Athletic Club and is a Presbyterian and a republican. On August 31,
1904, he married Alice Mae Bond. They have one son, John Laurence,
born in 1912.
Timothy Mahoney. While in his early forties as to age, Mr.
Mahoney is in point of experience and service one of the oldest elec-
trical and mining engineers on the coast. He has been identified with a
great and varied volume of constructive and industrial enterprise and
in recent years has become a prominent operator in copper mine develop-
ment. He is president of the Amalgamated Copper Mine Company of
Arizona.
Mr. Mahoney, whose business headquarters are in Los Angeles, was
born in Ventura county, California, August 26, 1877, a son of John J.
and Arcadia (Camarillo) Mahoney. Until he was nine years of age
he attended public school in Ventura county. His parents then removed
to Los Angeles, where he was a pupil in the old Spring Street grammar
school and later in St. Vincent's College while Father Meyer was its
president.
Mr. Mahoney when fourteen years of age went to San Francisco
and studied electrical and mechanical engineering and mathematics under
a private tutor named Leon C. Searox. His preceptor was distinguished
for having installed the first electric lights in San Francisco. Not long
afterward Mr. Mahoney engaged with the Union Iron Works as a
marine engineer and was with that corporation until 1901. He then took
up electrical engineering for himself, practicing in San Francisco until
1908, at which date he returned to Los Angeles. Since then his pro-
fessional work has been industrial engineering, the erection of cement
plants, opening of quarries, and general mining engineering. Mr. Maho-
ney has sixteen United States patents on railway equipment, dental devices
and hot air devices. He organized the Amalgamated Copper Mines
Company in 1916. 'He is president and director of the company, which
has a capital stock of ten million dollars and owns three properties, one
being the Copper Hill in Arizona and the other two the Bonanza and
the Bullion in California. Engineers and geologists who have investi-
gated and examined these properties pronounce them as among the
most promising copper properties in the Southwest. The Copper Hill
and Bonanza are already being operated and during 1919 a reduction
plant with capacity of five hundred tons a day was constructed.
Mr. Mahoney is unmarried. He is a republican in politics and a
Catholic.
George Harold Powell. By way of introduction it is sufificient to
say of Mr. Powell that he is general manager of the California Fruit
Growers Exchange, probably the supreme example of co-operative mar-
keting in the world. The position of general manager for a corporation
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that markets the fruit of ten thousand five hundred orange and lemon
growers representing over 72 per cent, of the citrus industry of CaU-
fornia, demands both technical and executive abilities of the highest
order.
Mr. Powell was formerly an official of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture and has long been regarded as an expert particu-
larly on the handling, storage and transportation of perishable products.
He was bom at Ghent, New York, February 8, 1872, a son of George
T. and Marcia R. (Chase) Powell. He received the degree. Bachelor
of Agriculture, from Cornell University, in 1895, and the degree Master
of Agriculture in 1896 from the same institution. His practical experi-
ence as a horticulturist covers over twenty years. He was horticul-
turist at the Delaware College agricultural experiment station at Newark,
New Jersey, from 1896 to 1901, and then for ten years was connected
with the Department of Agriculture. From 1901 to 1904 he was assist-
ant pomologist, 1904 to 1909 was pomologist in charge of fruit trans-
portation and storage investigations, and in 1910 was assistant ch'ef of
the Bureau of Plant Industry. In January, 1911, Mr. Powell caire to
Los Angeles as secretary and manager of the Citrus Protective League
of California, and on September 1, 1912, assumed his present duties as
general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange.
Mr. Powell is a member of numerous horticultural and agricultural
societies, including the American Pomological Society, and is a vice
president of the American Association of Refrigeration. July 9, 1917,
he was placed in charge of the Division of Perishable Foods of the
United States Food Administration, and handled that division during
the war. At the end of the war he was decorated by the King of
Belgium, Chevalier of the Order of the Crown in recognition of services
performed in connection with the Commission on Relief for Belgium.
He is author of "Co-operation in Agriculture," published in 1913, and
of numerous bulletins issued by the United States Department of Agri-
culture on fruit growing, cold storage and fruit transportation.
Mr. Powell is a republican, a member of the Unitarian faith, became
a member of Cornell Chapter in 1896 of the Sigma Xi, is a Kappa Sigma
and a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington and the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.
Mr. Powell and family reside at South Pasadena, July 1, 1896, at
Bufifalo, New York, he married Miss Gertrude E. Clark. They have
three sons: H. Clark, born in 1899, is a graduate of the South Pasa-
dena High School, and is now a student in the Michigan Agricultural
College at Lansing, and while there served as a member of the Student
Army Training Corps in 1918. George T., born in 1901, is a graduate
of the South Pasadena High School and is now a student at Stanford
University. Lawrence Chase, born in 1905, is in the public school.
California Fruit Growers Exchange. It is no part of this brief
article to comment upon the significance of the copious output of news-
paper writers, editors, pamphleteers, practical business men and trained
economists who have discussed the subject of co-operative action as a
means of reducing the high cost of living. Newspap-^rs, that a few
years ago, before co-operation was understood, were indifferent to any
example of co-operation and practice, now devote long columns of thnr
space to the subject, and search eagerly for successful examples from
one end of the country to the other.
All this abundant literature on the subject leads at one time or
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another to the greatest example of co-operative marketing in America,
the California Fruit Growers Exchange.
The citrus fruit industry of Southern California has been developed
commercially since 1873, and up to thirty years ago the industry was
still a small one and the methods of distribution and marketing were
much the same as those that are still practiced in many parts of the
country in other perishable products. As the industry grew larger it
was gradually discovered and realized that not only were the commission
Iwyers and middle men taking the cream of the profits, but were also
in many cases leaving the producer a reward less than the cost of grow-
ing the fruit. It was as a measure of self protection therefore that dur-
ing the late eighties and early nineties the growers began to organize
small associations. According to an article found in the Year Book of
the Department of Agriculture for 1910 Mr. T. H. B. Chamblin, of
Riverside, was the pioneer in organizing the citrus fruit growers in
Southern California. The Paclj^appa Fruit Association was the first
one formed about 1888. The veteran vice president of the California
Fruit Growers Exchange, P. J. Dreher, gives credit for the origin of
the present system of marketing citrus fruits by co-operative growers'
organizations to the Claremont, California, Fruit Growers Association,
which was organized and handled its first crop in the season of 1892-93.
During 1893 a plan was outlined which federated a number of the asso-
ciations and provided for the preparation of the fruit for market by the
local association, for the organization of district exchanges made up of
local associations. Out of this federation grew the Southern California
Fruit Exchange in 1895 and later in 1905 the California Fruit Growers
Exchange, which now handles the great bulk of the citrus fruit crop
of Southern California. In 1919 Exchange members forwarded 72
per cent of the state's shipments.
While the membership and strength and efficiency of the organiza-
tion have been steadily increasing the following statement taken from
the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture in 1910 are essentially
descriptive of the Exchange today, with the data changed to fit the
present status of the organization.
"The California Fruit Growers Exchange represents about six
thousand (10,000 in 1919) growers who have organized themselves into
one hundred or more (200 in 1919) local associations. The association
usually owns its own packing house, where the fruit of the members is
assembled, pooled and prepared for market under brands adopted for
the different grades by the association. The association usually picks
the fruit of the members.
"The associations in the different regions combine into one or more
district exchanges which represent the associations in the business opera-
tions common to each and which sell the fruit in co-operation with the
California Fruit Growers Exchange through the district or local agents
of the latter or at auction, receiving the proceeds therefor through the
California Fruit Growers Exchange, an incorporated agency formed by
a representative of each of the sixteen (20 in 1919) district Exchanges,
which acts as the selling agent for these district exchanges. The Cali-
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange takes' the fruit of the district exchanges
after it is packed and with their advice places it in the different markets,
sells it through its own exclusive agents to the trade by auction, and
collects the proceeds and transmits them to the district exchanges, which
in turn pay the growers through the local associations.
"The central exchange, the district exchange, and the association
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all iransact the business for the grower at actual cost. The central
exchange through its agents is in daily touch with the markets of America,
thereby enabling it to distribute its fruit intelligently. The local ex-
change.s and the associations receive a daily bulletin from the central
exchange which outlines the condition of all the markets the preceding
day, states the selling price of all exchange cars, and gives the growers
such information as will help them to pack and distribute their fruit
to the best advantage.
"The limits of this article are too restricted to permit more than a
brief outline of the battle that the citrus-fruit growers of California
had to wage for fifteen years before the co-operative principle was on
a firm foundation. At first, the growers were inexperienced in meet-
ing the attacks of those who were opposed to co-operation among the
producers. Powerful financial interests of various kinds were arrayed
against them and were organized to oppose them. Vicious attacks were
made on the integrity of the officers. The results obtained by the asso-
ciations were belittled, the growers' association contract was assailed
in the courts, and the methods of marketing the fruit were attacked.
The most determined efi'orts were made to show that the grower's organi-
zations were illegally formed. Finally the growers combined with the
buyers at one time to market the entire crop, but this incongruous com-
bination of producers and dealers was dissolved at the end of a year
md a half.
"The history of the citrus industry in California is largely a record
of the progress in the co-operative handling and distribution of the
crop by the producer and of his determination to receive an equitable
share of the value of the labor expended in its production. The battle
has been won ; the co-operative principle is firmly fixed. It is the
balance wheel that gives stability to the industry and to the relations that
exist between it and the agencies with which it transacts business."
E. Avery McCarthy. In a city of the magnitude of Los Angeles
it is a real achievement when an individual name becomes associated with
all the significance that surrounds the McCarthy Company. The McCar-
thys have been in the real estate business for over thirty years, and as
their enterprise attracted attention when Los Angeles was little more
than a village, so today the firm and the name have grown in propor-
tion to the city itself. It is one of the largest organizations identified
with the promotion and sale of subdivisions in and around Los Angeles.
The president and manager of the company at Los Angeles is E.
Avery McCarthy. The business was founded, however, by his father
James P. McCarthy, who was born in Oswego county. New York, April
7, 1848. He was educated in the public schools. For a time he was a
towpath driver along the same canal where James A. Garfield had
worked in a similar capacity and thus gained the experience which later
made him known as the canal boy president. For a time James McCarthy
worked in a store at Troy, New York, and he and his two brothers estab-
lished a general stock of merchandise at Syracuse, New York. Oti
selling his interest in this enterprise he returned to Oswego, and opened
a general store of his own. He kept the business growing, and de-
veloped a number of branch stores throughout the state.
It was after a successful career as a merchant in New York State
that James McCarthy sold out and in 1885 came to Los Angeles. The
first investment to attract him here was an orange grove. This orange
grove extended from Main Street to Grand Avenue, through which
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now runs the thoroughfare known as 24th Street. As a matter of course
he became interested in the real estate field, and he is still interested in it.
James McCarthy married at Oswego, New York, Myra L. Chesebro.
They have three children: E. Avery; Mrs. Arthur W. Forester of Los
Angeles ; and John D., secretary of The McCarthy Company and man-
ager of the San Francisco office.
E. Avery McCarthy was born in Oswego, New York, March 21,
1870, and was fifteen years old when his father moved out to Los
Angeles. He attended the public schools in the meantime, and remained
in New York to complete his education, spending one year in the Pack-
ard's Commercial College at New York City and one year in the Cen
tenary Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey. Rejoining his people
in Los Angeles he attended the University of Southern California two
years. Mr. McCarthy then entered his father's real estate office, and
after two years of experience and training took charge of the branch
of the business at San Francisco, though at first he was merely a sales-
man there. Subsequently he remained as manager at San Francisco for
twelve years. On returning to Los Angeles he became president and
general manager of The McCarthy Company. This corporate name
has been associated with so many allotments and subdivisions in and
around Los Angeles it scarcely needs special description. Altogether
the company has put on the market twenty-seven subdivisions, largely
in the south and south and southwestern sections of Los Angeles along
Moneta Avenue, Main Street, San Pedro Street, and Vermont Avenue,
and in the Wilshire District. One of the largest single enterprises of
The McCarthy Company was the building and the ownership and opera-
tion of the Hotel Broadway at 205 North Broadway, in Los Angeles.
This is owned and operated by the McCarthy Company and since it
was opened has been one of the popular hotels in the city.
Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Bohemian Club of San Fran-
cisco, the Midwick Country Club of Pasadena, the California Club, Los
Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country Clubs of Los Angeles, and
in politics is a republican. He married in Los Angeles, June 28, 1905,
Susan Howard, daughter of A. J. Howard and granddaughter of Judge
Volney E. Howard and of Colonel Whiting, two renowned citizens of the
West. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy have two children : E. Avery, Jr., born
in 1906, now in the Pasadena Army and Navy Academy, and James
Howard, born in 1911. Both sons are students in the Los Angeles
grammar schools. Two daughters of Mr. McCarthy by former marriage
are Aileen McCarthy, now Airs. Morgan Adams, of Los Angeles, and
Miss Lylian McCarthy, in University of California at Berkeley.
John E. Ransford is a former Chicago business man who, with
Mrs. Ransford has contributed to Los Angeles what is probably the
most talked of and finest apartment building, the Garden Court Apart-
ments, at Hollywood. This building, so much admired, and patronized
to the limits of its capacity since it was opened, requires no description,
since nearly every resident of Los Angeles and visitors to the city are
familiar with it as one of the most attractive architectural structures of
Hollywood. Mr. Ransford started life as a country boy in Southern
Indiana. He was born in Sullivan county, that state, December 30,
1867, son of Ruben and Mary Elizabeth Ransford. His father was an
Indiana farmer, also a native of Sullivan county, and of English ancestry.
He continued farming there until 1889.
In the meantime John E. Ransford attended the grammar and
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high schools of SulHvan county, graduating at the age of nineteen. On
leaving the farm he went to Terre Haute, and became stock clerk with
the large store of L. B. Root and Company. He made rapid advance
and was eventually employed as assistant buyer of the silk and dress
goods department. He remained with that establishment fourteen years.
His experience and abilities requiring a larger field, he went to Chicago,
and beginning as salesman in the silk and dress goods department of
Marshall Field and Company was promoted until he was division super-
intendent of that great commercial establishment.
Mr. Ransford resigned from Marshall Field and Company in 1913
and cam.e to Los Angeles, where though nominally retired he has identi-
fied himself with many business organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Ransford
built the Garden Court Apartments in 1917. He is also a director of
the Master Carburetor Company of Los Angeles, a director and vice
president of the First National Bank of Hollywood, and a director of
the Pine Pool Gasoline Company of Oklahoma. He is a member of
the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
At Chicago, in September, 1911, Mr. Ransford married Mrs. A. W.
Tobin. Mrs. Tobin associated with her brothers was one of the organ-
izers of the Continental Motor Company, one of the largest organizations
of its kmd in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Ransford own a beau-
tiful residence on Crescent Heights in Hollywood.
Elizabeth Agnes Wilbur. Sufficient fame unto the day and
doubtless for many years to come, has been awarded this native
daughter of California, a poetess of no mean distinction, through the
authorship of the stirring lines heard and sung throughout the allied
world, "The Americans Come !" The song that has been pronounced
the greatest song of the war.
Miss Wilbur was born at Stockton, California. Her grandfather,
Sebastian Timeson Visher, came to California in 1849 on the same ship
with Collis P. Huntington, and was identified with the early history
of the San Joaquin Valley. Her father, the late I. R. Wilbur, was
widely known as a business man of prominent connections in Cali-
fornia. Miss Wilbur was educated in the public schools of San Fran-
cisco, and also at Snell's Seminary in Oakland. She has written poetry
since early girlhood, but her first real distinction came when Mr.
McGroarty published her poem on the San Gabriel Mission in con-
nection with a picture of that mission, about 1908. Other poems have
appeared from time to time, among the more recent being her poem
to Santa Barbara in honor of the old time Spanish fiesta, and which
appeared in the Santa Barbara Press of June 29, 1919, and brought
her many letters from admiring readers. Her poem on the Panama
Pacific Exposition, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle of
October 31, 1915, was pronounced the most beautiful description of the
never-to-be-forgotten exposition.
In 1914 Miss Wilbur was in Montreal and daily watched the drill-
ing of Canadian soldiers, and longed intensely to write something that
would inspire and help in the great war into which her own country
was so soon to be drawn, but she was far from home, and homesick and
wrote only one little poem while there, "I Know a Valley," which
appeared in the September Overland Monthly of that year, and which
depicts the beautiful San Gabriel Vally.
Coming home at a time of much illness and sorrow in the family
and when she was called upon almost dailv to bid good-bye to soldier
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relatives and friends, the inspiration for "The Americans Come!" came
in the form of a mental picture. That afternoon she wrote it, typed
it and sent it to Mnnsey Magazine, which publication promptly accepted
it. It was published in the Christmas number of that magazine for
1917. Fay Foster, a New York composer, set the words to music
and the song was soon afterwards issued by one of New York's best
known publishers.
Among the many comments upon this song, which briefly describes
a little scene in France when a blinded French soldier hears the tramp
of marching feet, and the cheering of the people and realizes that the
American soldiers have come to the aid of devastated France, the fol-
lowing is from the Musical Courier of February 20, 1919:
"Among the thousands of poems, good, bad or indifferent, the war
has brought forth, there are perhaps not more than a score that by
reason of their exquisite beauty, inherent appeal to some chord of the
human heart, a simplicity of grandeur, will never be forgotten. Among
these stand out pre-eminently Elizabeth A. Wilbur's 'The Americans
Come !' published first as a poem in Munsey's it remained for Fay Fos-
ter's appropriate and noble setting to bring it conspicuously before the
millions who have been thrilled to tjie depths of their being by its
simple and pathetic story. The extreme simpHcity with which Miss
Wilbur handles this touching theme allows the thought to stand forth
almost, it would seem, unclothed, with nothing to detract from the grip-
ping idea. Miss Wilbur is a young California woman and has a num-
ber of other beautiful poems to her credit. Her father, who died in
1915, was a wealthy man of wide business connections, having interests
in railroads, in mines, and many large corporations. She will doubtless
give to the world other gems, but should fate decree that she never
again touch pen to paper, her place in the front ranks of America's
poets is assured by "The Americans Come.' "
The stirring verses are :
"What is the cheering my little one?
O, that my blinded eyes could see!
Hasten, my boy, to the window run
And see what the noise in the street may be.
I hear the drums and the marching feet.
Look and see what it's all about
Who can it be that our people greet
With cheer and laughter and joyous shout?
There are men, my father, brown and strong,
And they carry a banner of wondrous hue;
With a mighty tread they swing along,
Now I see white stars on a field of blue.
You say that you see white stars on blue?
Look ! are there stripes of red and white ?
It must be! Yes, it must be true!
O, dear God, if I had my sight!
Hasten son, fling the window wide,
Let me kiss the staff our flag swings from
And salute the stars and stripes with pride.
For, God be praised, the Americans come!"
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While this song was widely sung by the general public it had the
unusual distinction of having the foremost place on the reperto're of
over twenty-five grand opera singers, including Schumann-H^ink, David
Bispham, John McCormack, Marcella Craft, Marie Rappold and others.
It has also been translated into French, Italian and Spanish and arranged
for orchestra and military band. Miss Foster in writing Miss Wil lur
from New York, September 30, 1918, said that the song would be heard
by a hundred thousand people on the tour of Margaret Romaine, one
of the Metropolitan stars, and deferred to its rendition by John McCor-
mack to an audience of ten thousand in the Hippodrome. This audi-
ence broke into applause in the middle of the song and after the line
"I see white stars on a field of blue" the applause was such that he had
to wait some minutes before resuming.
Miss Wilbur is now engaged in compiling a book of California poems
"Just for those who love California." It is her aim and hope to reach
the hearts of the people through her songs. Recently she has been
collaborating with Miss Grace Adele Freebey, one of Los Angeles' fore-
most composers, whose beautiful music is fast gaining a worldwide
fame. Their song "Just You and My Homeland" has met with instant
success, and other songs still in the hands of the publishers are "Love's
Resignation, "Calling You," and "Somebody's Coming."
Seth R. Brown. While especially prominent as a leader in labor
circles at Los Angeles, Mr. Brown is also well known for his other well
distributed and effective public activities.
He y/as born at Hastings, Michigan, November 16, 1873, son of
Romanzo P. and Catherine (Eggleston) Brown. His father, who was
born at Grass Lake, Michigan, February 16, 1845, had a district school
education and in 1854 moved with his parents to Hastings, Michigan,
where he followed the life of a farmer for a number of years and later
was associated with an uncle as a wagon manufacturer. He died in
October, 1914.
Seth R. Brown attended the grammar and high schools of Hast-
ings to the age of seventeen, and then served his apprenticeship as a
printer with a job printing office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was
there five years, and following that was a printer with the Grand Rapids
Evening Press thirteen years. During that time he served as president
of the Grand Rapids Typographical Union until 1909.
On coming to Los Angeles, Mr. Brown was connected with the
Evening Express as linotype operator until •'uly 27, 1917. At that date
he was appointed secretary to District Board No. 1 of the Selective
Service for Southern California. He has served continuously as presi-
dent of the Los Angeles Typographical Union since May, 1914, being
re-elected annually. In January, 1916, he was also elected .president of
the Central Labor Council of Los Angeles. He has been a member of
the State Council of Defense since April 1917, and in September, 1918,
was appointed a member of the State War Donation Board. Mr. Brown
is a republican, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the
Court of Honor and the Elks.
At Benton Harbor Michigan, May 13, 1897, he married Martha F,
Forbes.
Albert D. Pierce. A member of the Los Angeles bar since March,
1913. Albert D. Pierce has achieved some prominent connections with
his profession in Southern California, and is a leading member of the
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firm Evans, Abbott & Pierce, lawyers, in the Van Nkiys Building.
Mr. Pierce is president of the University of Michigan Alumni Asso-
ciation of Southern California. He was one of the honormen in that
university during his literary and law courses. He was born at Cham-
pion, Michigan, October 24, 1883, a son of Edward and Margaret
(Mundy) Pierce. He was educated in the grammar schools of Cham-
pion and Ishpeming, Michigan, graduated from the Pentwater High
School in 1903, and entering the University of Michigan was graduated
A. B. in 1908 and LL. B. in 1909. He won many university honors. He
was Assistant Instructor of History in the university during his last
year and was also Honor Debater, representing the university in the
Intercollegiate debate in the University of Chicago, where the Michigan
team achieved a unanimous decision. Mr. Pierce after leaving law
school became sales manager for King-Richardson Publishing Com-
pany of Chicago, and was busied with the responsibility of directing a
large force of salesmen for several years. In January, 1913, he came
to Los Angeles and in March of the same year was admitted to the
bar by the Supreme Court. He practiced alone until 1913, when he
formed a partnership with Arthur J. Abbott under the name Abbott &
Pierce, with offices in the Higgins Building. In January, 1917, upon
the dissolution of the firm Jones & Evans, Mr. W. E. Evans at that,
time joined Mr. Pierce, in the partnership above noted, Evans, Abbott
& Pierce. Mr. Pierce is a member of the University Club of Los Angeles
and is past exalted ruler of Glendale Lodge No. 1289 of the Elks. He
resides at Glendale. At Atvvater. Michigan, October 24. 1910. he mar-
ried Esther F. Lewis.
D. Joseph Coyne began the practice of law at Los Angeles in Octo-
ber, 1905, and has brought to his profession a wide range of talents and
experience that have served him well and brought him a most creditable
position in the Los Angeles bar.
Mr. Coyne was born at Chicago July 11, 1882, son of Martin J. and
Catherine (McMahon) Coyne. His parents were both natives of the
Province of Ontario, Canada. Mr. Coyne received a grammar and
high school education in Chicago, also attended the Lewis Institute and
Athaneum College of that city. He attended the law department of the
Lake Forest University at Chicago, from which he received his LL.B.
degree in 1905.
Arriving in Los Angeles in October, 1905, Mr. Coyne at once took
up the practice of law in which he has continued steadily ever since. In
1914 he was nominated at the primary elections in Los Angeles county
for the Superior Court. In 1915 he was elected a member of the Board
of Freeholders of Los Angeles, and during 1918-19 has served as a
member of the Social Service Commission of Los Angeles. From 1906
to 1908 he served in Company A of the Seventh Regiment, National
Guards, of California. Mr. Coyne is a republican, is a member of the
L^s Angeles County Republican Central Committee for 1918-19, is a
member of the Municipal League, City Club, Chamber of Commerce,
Knights of Columbus and Lodge No. 99 of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.
September 14, 1910, at Los Angeles he married Miss Johanna Slaney,
a native of Los Angeles. They have three children: Bernard P., Blanche
J. and Edmund Covne.
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Elmer I. Moody has been a member of the bar of Pasadena and
Los Angeles for a number of years, and his name is prominent both in
his profession and civic affairs, and while he has never been drawn into
the current of practical politics he has done much work that constitutes
real public service.
Mr. Moody wa.s bom in St. Joseph, Missouri, February 4, 1879, son
of William J- and Elizabeth (Crane) Moody. His father also a native
of St. Joseph, Missouri, was educated there, taught school in early life,
and finally removed to Oklahoma, where for many years he has been an
operator of cotton gins.
Elmer I. Moody attended the public schools of St. Joseph until 1897.
when he came to Southern California. He continued his education one
year in the Pasadena High School, another year in the Throop College
of Technology, and then in the Los Angeles Law College from which
he graduated LL. B. in 1901. He began practice at Pasadena with John
A. Goodrich under the firm name of Goodrich & Moody. When his
partner was elected and served as a member of the State Assembly in
1903, Mr. Moody continued practice alone, and in 1907 entered the part-
nership of Simpson, Moody, Noyes & Simpson. A year later the firm
title was changed to Simpson, Moody & Simpson. In 1915 Mr. Moody
retired from this firm, and with many well earned honors as a lawyer
during fifteen years of practice in Pasadena he came to Los Angeles
and has since carried on an individual practice. Mr. Moody has repre-
sented many important interests, and was the lawyer who settled the
estate of Adolphus Busch in California. ,
In 1910 he served as president of the Pasadena Republican Club.
He was one of the organizers and is a director of the Security Niational
Bank. He was also one of the organizers of the Associated Charities at
Pasadena, was State Auditor of the Knights of the Maccabees for ten
years, and during the war served as Government Appeal Agent for Divi-
sion No. 8 on conscription cases, Mr. Moody is vice president of the
Beaux Art Features Incorporated. He is a republican, a member of the
Baptist church is past master of Pasadena Lodge No. 272 A. F. and
A. M., and a member of the Elks, Union League Club. City Club, Los
Angeles and American Bar Association.
At Los Angeles, December 16, 1916, he married Elsie Morgan.
Their two children are Carolyn and Elmer H., both pupils in the
public schools.
Detective Nick Harris. In writing the biography of Mr. Harris, it
might be well in the very beginning to mention the fact that this famous
detective needs no local introduction, in fact at the time of putting down
these notes, there has hardly been a day past in which the local daily
papers have not carried some account of the activities of himself or his
agents, in connection with the apprehension of some evil doer who has
transgressed the laws of our fair California. Yet as a matter of official
record. We are going to insert here a few facts concerning the early and
present day history of this able officer who is regarded as the most
noted detective genius in Southern California today.
Mr. Harris was born February 2, 1882, at Chicago, Illinois, and
was given the name of Nicholas Boilvin Harris. His father being Charles
H. Harris, the founder of the Chicago Daily News, who in later years
became a famous journalist and lecturer, and at the time of his death
was editor and publisher of the National Weekly, in Chicago. His dia-
lect writings under the nom-de-plume of "Carl Pretzel," won for him
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the distinction of being second to none in his time. Mr. Harris' mother
was Mary Elizabeth Boilvin, a direct descendant of the St. Cyrs, the
founders of the St. Cyr Military Academy in France, which still bears
the St. Cyrs' name.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Harris removed to California,
in 1897, residing in South Pasadena for a short time, and later locating
on property in Charter Oak, California, where this youngster and his
brother cleared the fertile soil and planted one of the now famous orange
groves that bears some of the Sunkist oranges known the world over.
The taking of this younger Harris from the busy city of Chicago
and transplanting him on an orange grove in California, did not set
well with Nicholas, so he ran away from home to seek his fortune in
the coming metropolis of Los Angeles. He found work as a night police
writer on the Los Angeles Daily Journal, reporting for duty at Cen-
tral Police Station at 6 P. M. until 1 in the morning. This gave him
lots of spare time during the days, and desiring to increase his income,
he secured a position as bundle wrapper for A. Hamburger and Sons,
on North Spring Street. He held these two jobs for several months
until it began to tell on his nerves, and one day while trying to catch up
on his sleep he was ordered to report to the superintendent's office and
tell why he couldn't keep his eyes open. He then confessed to his
employer that he was reporting nights on the Journal at the police
station, and with the two jobs he was able to make a fairly good living.
The superintendent informed him it was always best to do one thing
well and then called Mr. Warren Wilson, owner of the Journal, told
him what his reporter was doing and asked which one was going to
pay for all his time. Mr. Wilson was surprised and said Harris was
his employe first and he (Wilson) was entitled to his services and
would double his pay and use all of Harris' time. Hence the latter then
became a regular reporter covering courts in the afternoons and police
at night.
Yet, according to Mr. Harris, the experience he gained in holding
the two positions down, proved to be the greatest asset for him in after
years in following the detective profession. For as a reporter he was
able to see the real human side of life, so essential to his present day
work, and while as a department store employe he received a training
that enabled him to better understand the different department store sys-
tems, which today he comes in contact with as the head of the detective
agency which now supplies the majority of our big mercantile em-
poriums.
We asked Mr. Harris how he happened to become a detective and
quit the newspaper work. He answered as follows :
"While working as a reporter, and being more or less around court,
I soon had a desire to study law. Every spare moment I could get I
would beg and borrow a law book and for three years dug into the teach-
ings of Blackstone until I soon felt I was able to take the bar examina-
tion. One day 1 happened to drop into the office of Captain of Detectives
A. J. Bradish, then commanding the detective bureau at Central Station,
to ask him a question of law, regarding the extradition of a prisoner from
one foreign country to another. While there the Captain's phone bell
rang and a woman frantically called to have some detective come at once
to 710 South Main Street, something awful had happened and a very
peculiar odor was coming from under a door, in a room she had rented.
"I being on duty at the time Captain Bradish told me there might be
a good story there and I accompanied Detectives Steel and Craig to the
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scene of the mystery, which was a room on the second floor at the above
address. The door was locked, and as the woman had said most sick-
ening odors were emanating from the room. The officers burst the
door in and the sight that greeted us was one never to be forgotten.
There half lying on a couch, shoulders and head on the floor, was the
partial nude body of a man. His head crushed from many blows, and
walls splattered with his life's blood. In fact, it resembled more the
appearance of a slaughter house than anything else. We found the
body had laid there in this enclosed hot room for several days and de-
composure had set in. The officers left me to guard the body while one
went to notify the coroner and the other to quiz the landlady and other
tenants. Meanwhile I, only thinking of the story value, proceeded to
investigate and find out who the victim was and if possible who had
committed such a dastardly crime. In another corner of the room I
found an old fashioned slop jar and wash basin in which the murderer
had evidently washed his hands. I looked in the jar and found some
partially burned papers, so naturally gathered up what I could. Upon
taking them to the station I pieced them together between two pieces of
glass and was able to make out these bits of paper had been a note for
$2,000 from one C. E. Martin, in favor of J. Madison Sowards. Sowards,
I found was a money lender with offices on South Broadway and had
loaned this money to Martin on diamonds and had received a phone
call from the latter on the day of the murder, to bring the diamonds to
Martin's room, where he was registered under the name of Martin Cox,
and he would redeem the note. Hence, when Sowards arrived he was
killed and the diamonds taken from him.
"As a result of this information the perpetrator of the crime was
made known to the police and I was highly complimented by Captain
Bradish who told me I would make a good detective. This bit of flat-
tery seemed to take its effect on me and from that time on I wanted to
be a real Sherlock Holmes. So a few years later I opened a detective
office for myself and since that time have tried to make the Captain's
statement come true. I might state here that on another occasion I
received a bit of advice from the Captain, which was this: That if a
detective ever expects to be a success in life, he must always remember
one thing, 'Be Honest.' "
Probably as a result of Mr. Harris' early newspaper experience he
has been called upon many times by different editors of publications, to
contribute articles based on his experience as a detective and which ring
true to life in the underworld, as the following poem will show. It was
written by Mr. Harris, who states he received an inspiration after talk,-
ing to one of the most noted present day criminals who had become
addicted to the dreaded drug habit.
A Mass of Golden Hair.
You asked me now to tell you of my life in happy dreams.
You want to know, I guess, just how this old world seems
To one who's used the needle and smoked the fragrant weed
That sprouts out yellow blossoms which supplies the Hophead's needs.
So let me tell my story in my simple little way,
That you may understand it and know the price we pay.
I'll start from the beginning and lift the hazy veil
And tell it as I learned it and utter not a wail.
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I was born away from trouble, in a little country town.
I went to church and school, the latter painted brown.
I met the sweetest little girl, just like all others do.
I little thought, in after years, this tale could e'er come true.
Her golden curls had won me, from the time I saw her first,
I swore then I would love her and protect her from the worst.
I, like other fellows, had played the childish pranks
That sometimes have bad endings and annoy the village cranks.
'Twas one of these that started me along this fatal path.
You see, my father caught me and whipped me with a lath.
Now that should be a lesson to a lad in tender years.
Instead of causing misery and mother's many tears.
But I just ran away from home and to a city came. ,
I found out all there was to learn in this most rotten game.
I soon was broke and hungry and not a friend I knew,
So started out to get a job, a career I had to hew.
I landed as a messenger in an office in the slums,
I soon became acquainted with all the crooks and bums.
I little thought what this would mean, to me, yet but a kid,
To live in this wide open town that never had a lid.
I worked at nights in bright lights gay, among these fallen creatures
Who knew the life as no one else, and all its awful features.
I saw the life I can't describe and to you I can't tell
Of all the things that happened then and sent most all to Hell.
I soon became a fixture there and thought that I was smart.
I knew the Dago on the street, who ran the peanut cart.
I knew the girls in flimsy dress who called me "Little Joe,"
They used to kid me every night and said I was their "beau."
They gave me ties at Christmas time and sometimes bought me shoes.
When I would run their errands or bring to them their booze.
Oh, yes, and I remember the Salvation Army Lass
Who used to sell the War Cry, which fought the fatal glass.
She traveled through these sin filled streets and seemed to know no
fear.
Yet through these crowds she wandered and tried to bring good cheer.
Would that I had listened to the words she had to say.
I now would be a better man instead of broken clay.
The almond eyes of Chinatown would hold me ,in their grasp
Until one fatal night in June I sure was in their clasp.
I rolled a pill, 'twas just in fun, to see what it would do.
I burned it o'er the little flame as they had told me to,
I puffed upon the dirty pipe until I was asleep,
I dreamed of sunken gardens, yes, they seemed a full mile deep.
A thousand diamonds glistened here, like dew upon the grass.
I saw my village sweetheart, with her golden hair amass.
I called to her in ecstasy to look, that I was here.
She turned and smiled and told me that I was just her dear.
She said that we'd get married and have a little home
In this garden spot of ages and have it all our own.
Then an angel from the heavens flew down close by our side.
She joined our hands in marriage and with happiness she cried,
"Go forth my gentle children, to this land that knows no tears
And live the life you've longed for until old age creeps into years."
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Just then my dream was ended, I was startled by a scream,
A crashing door, a blue coat, a familiar form I seen.
'Twas Lee, the Chink who ran the joint, he sprawled upon the floor.
As the copper's fist had leveled him when he crashed against the door.
The harness bull was standing and looking all around,
He called to Lee to tell him if the girl was under ground.
I saw him draw his pistol as the Chink reached for his knife,
I saw Lee get upon his knees and beg to spare his life.
He led the way to a darkened room and told him she was there
And when they brought her past me, I saw the golden hair.
I made one jump and landed a way out from my bunk,
I reeled and tried to hold my feet but it seemed that I was drunk.
Yet my head was clear and I seemed to know that I had left my bed.
I called to them to stop and wait and tell me, was she dead.
They went right on and let me stand and didn't seem to care
That I had known that little girl with the mass of golden hair.
You see I used to write to her and she knew what I meant, when
I told her how I loved her and what a life I spent.
Next day I learned the awful truth of what had come to pass,
Of how my little village sweetheart had waited till the last.
Of how she wandered into town to find me if she could.
And help me lead a better life and bring out all the good.
And when she couldn't find me I guess she lost her way,
They say she hit the dope route and like others, had to pay.
They buried her away up State, in that little country town
Where childhood days were happy and the school was painted brown.
You asked me now why I don't stop and lay off of the stuff,
For I should know my life is dead and I am just a blufif.
Why man alive, I only live to go back to my den
And hit the pipe and dream of her and dream what might have been.
Why man, I long to see again that garden of the gods
I told you of a while ago that had the diamond pods.
Where the angel came and joined our hands and where my love was
born.
Yes, man, that's where I want to stay 'til Gabriel blows his horn,
Or would that God would take me now, and tear me from this weed
That's caused such hell and sorrow and bears its filthy seed.
That I may make amends to him and pray him to forgive my sins
of other days, and a new life let me live.
So don't feel hard if I must leave and have to say good-bye.
Because I want just one more dream like that before I die.
For my little pal still waits for me, I think I see her there
Away up with the angels with that mass of golden hair.
(Signed) Nick Harris.
Max Loewenthal. A Los Angeles lawyer since 1886 Max Loewen-
thal has been generally recognized by the bench and bar and by legal
interests for many years as a profound lawyer and as one of the most
substantia! and reliable members of the bar and has always enjoyed
an exceptionally large and choice practice.
Mr. Loewenthal was born in Germany, October IS, 1858, a son of
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Rev. Henry Phillips and Natalie (Schoenberg) Loewenthal. The family
came to California in 1867 direct from Germany when he was nine years
of age. His father was a rabbi and for eleven years was in charge of the
congregation at San Jose and for a similar period at Sacramento when
he retired and made his home with his son at Los Angeles until his
death.
Max Loewenthal attended the Sacramento public schools, gradu-
ating from the high school in 1877, received his A.B. degree from the
University of California in 1881, and in 1884 graduated with the degree
of LL. B. f/om the Hastings College of Law at San Francisco, where
he was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced until coming to
Los Angeles in 1886. For many years in Los Angeles Mr. Loewenthal
was associated with George J. Denis under the firm name of Denis &
Loewenthal, and for sometime thereafter with the firm of Loewenthal,
Loeb and Walker. He is now at the head of a large law business, with
offices in the Van Nuys Building. His junior associates are his son
Paul Loewenthal, Victor Ford Collins and Ernest C. Griffith.
Mr. Loewenthal is a director in the Consolidated Realty Company,
and has been attorney for and an officer in many other corporations
during the past. He is a democrat, and is a member of the University
Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Rod and Reel Club (of which he was
for many years the president). Phi Delta Phi college fraternity, Ameri-
can Bar Association, California State Bar Association and Los Angeles
County Bar Association, also the Automobile Club of Southern Cali-
fornia. He is interested in public affairs but has never held public
office. He has devoted much time and service to charities, is a lover of
outdoors, and was for many years an officer and director of the Tuna
Club.
At Los Angeles, July 7, 1889, he married Laura Meyer, who was
born and raised in Los Angeles and is a daughter of Samuel Meyer and
a member of the pioneer Meyer family of Los Angeles. They have two
children, Paul and Natalie Loewenthal, both natives of Los Angeles.
Paul graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1909, received his
A. B. degree from the University of California in 1913, and graduated
J. D. from the College of Law University of Southern California, in
1916, being admitted to the California bar the same year. On the out-
break of the war he enlisted in the navy, and received his commission
as ensign. He is now associated with his father in practice. Paul
Loewenthal married November 14, 1918, at Los Angeles, Miss Alice
Schwob and they reside at 1724 Westmoreland Boulevard. They have
one son, Robert B. Loewenthal. Natalie Loewenthal is a graduate
of the Girls' Collegiate School of Los Angeles and is now a student in the
University of California. Max Loewenthal and family reside at 1833
South Flower Street.
Luther G. Brown. One of the able members of the Los Angeles
bar, Luther G. Brown, during his long residence in Southern California,
has also become widely known for his work as an educator, for his
activity in public affairs, and even more so in his organization and man-
agement of large business and development companies.
Mr. Brown is from old pioneer Quaker stock ; his ancestors helped
build the earliest houses in Philadelphia; their descendants th«nce pio-
neered to Guilford Creek, North Carolina, and from there his great-
grandparents on both sides moved to the primitive forests of Indiana
in the latter part of the eighteenth century — and on October 22, 1868,
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he was born in a log cabin in the old Quaker settlement known as Sugar
Plain on the banks of Sugar Creek, Boone County, Indiana. William
P. and Mary M. Brown, his father and mother, were both well known
as teachers in Indiana and Iowa, and later were in charge of the gov-
ernment Indian schools for the Pottawatomie Indians in the Indian
Territory.
In 1885, William P. Brown moved his family and all his earthly
possessions to Southern California, where he lived till his death in 1908.
As a result of his efforts, more than two hundred of his friends and
relatives in the east moved to California.
Luther G. Brown is a graduate of the old Quaker or Friends Col-
lege, known as Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana, from which he
received his A. B. degree in 1891. For several years thereafter, he
was principal of the Washington School in Pasadena and for three
years teacher of English and commercial law in the Polytechnic High
School in Los Angeles. In 1899-1900 he was president oi the Los
Angeles County Board of Education. In 1899, he began the active
practice of the law.
In 1913, he secured an option from the Southern Pacific Land Com-
pany on some 50,000 acres of the best land in Imperial Valley and organ-
ized the Imperial Valley Fami Lands Association which purchased this
land and has brought the greater part of it to a high state of produc-
tion. Mr. Brown has been secretary, attorney and director in charge of
the work of this company since the time of its organization.
In 1917, he served as chairman of the Los Angeles City Home
Garden Committee, and promoted this work to such an extent that
more than 75,000 home gardens were planted in the city that year. His
plans and methods were adopted all over the United States.
For many years he has made an especial study of trade conditions
in Western Columbia, and in the summer of 1919 traveled through that
region and made a thorough personal examination. As a result he has
recently organized a trading company to do business with that country
and to develop closer business and social relations. This enterprise has
already developed to such an extent that Mr. Brown intends to give it
the greater part of his personal attention until his pjans have been
put into effect.
Mr. Brown is a past master of Pasadena Lodge of Free Masons, a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He is a mem-
ber of the Jonathan Club, of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
and a republican in politics.
Miss Grace Adele Freebey is a Los Angeles artist who has de-
pended upon her work, rather than the skill of a press agent for her
fame. To achieve recognition in this way is real fame, though obviously
work and time are the chief factors in the process.
Miss Freebey is an all American artist, and her great reputation as
an accompanist and as a composer is particularly gratifying to Americans
because an added proof of the fact that it is not necessary to go abroad
for instruction and inspiration.
Although born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Miss Freebey, the youngest
of seven children at that time, came to Los Angeles with her parents
when only a few months old. The family at first purchased property
on Sunset Boulevard, then later moved to 1666 Girard Street, where
they have lived for twenty years.
Miss Freebey was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles.
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She studied music first at Los Angeles for eight years under A. J.
Stamm of the Philharmonic Oi-chestra, and recently composition with
Henry Schoenfeld.
Jn 1905 she went to Washington, D. C, and studied piano with
Louis Bachner and Ernest Hutcheson, both from the Peabody Conserva-
tory in Baltimore. While there she lived with her sister Harriet Free-
bey, now a prominent lawyer of that city.
Until 1912 she did much teaching and concert work in and near
Washington, playing in the homes of the leading diplomats then located
at Washington, D. C. She was official accompanist to Kate Wilson-
Greene, playing in concert for many great artists, among them Campanari,
May Mukle, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Reinald Werrenrath, Ellen Beach-
Yaw and others.
Miss Freebe}' was also head of the piano department in the Martha
Washington Seminary, and a teacher of piano in the Wilson-Greene
School of Music. Later she toured the United States in joint recitals
with Alfred Wallenstein, the celebrated young cellist.
Miss Freebey started her career with the ambition of being a
soloist, but has realized the triupmh of her art in the specialty of accom-
panist to all instruments and the voice. Her efforts have been directed
as much to the elevation of the standard of accompaniment as a dis-
tinctive art as to her individual eminence therein. Probably only great
artists and the inner circle of music lovers appreciate the quality of such
a musician as Miss Freebey and the amount of skill and intelligence
and feeling required for her art. She is really seeing her dreams come
true in regard to the greater importance of the accompanist and the
recognition paid her is only a just tribute to many years of untiring
efifort.
Doubtless, however, her lasting reputation in musical circles will be
based upon her work as a composer. In 1912 Gadski introduced her first
song, "O Golden Sun." Since then she has been writing songs which
have been recognized by the best European and American artists and
are finding their place among the best music of the day. The "Four
Winds," a cycle of four short dramatic songs, is considered by our best
critics to be among the foremost American songs. The words to the
wind songs wer€ written by Charles Lucas.
The words of Miss Freebey's latest songs were written by Elizabeth
A. Wilbur, a brilliant young California writer. Among them are "Just
You and My Homeland," that has met with instant success, also "Calling
You" and Love"s Resignation," now in press.
The Heffelfinger Publishing Company, of Los Angeles, recently
purchased by the Schirmer Company, of New York, has brought out
many of Miss Freebey's songs.
Seeley WiNTERSMiTH MuDD. A resident of Lx)s Angeles since
1903, Mr. Mudd had then for ten years been one of the leading mining
engineers of the countr)', and his prestige in that field has been steadily
increasing with every successive year.
Mr. Mudd was one of many prominent technical men called to the
service of the government during the late war. On February 12, 1917,
he was commissioned major of engineers, Officers Reserve Corps. Jan-
uary 14, 1918, he was called to Washington where he acted as assistant
director of the United States explosive plants, a separate administrative
unit set up by order of the Secretary of War. May 24, 1918, he was
promoted to the rank of Colonel in the United States Army, and received
his honorable discharge Januar}' 20, 1919.
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Colonel Mudd was born at Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri,
August 16, 1861, a son of Henry Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth (Hodgen)
Mudd. His parents are now deceased. Colonel Mudd is a member of
the Society of Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of
Colonial Wars. His eligibility to these societies is based upon the rec-
ords of his Mudd and Street ancestors. Colonel Mudd is a brother of
one of the eminent surgeons of America, Harvey Gilmer Mudd, who
for the past twenty years has been chief surgeon and director of St.
Luke's Hospital, of St. Louis.
Seeley Wintersmith Mudd received his early education in the public
schools of his native town of Kirkwood, attended the St. Louis High
School, and took his degree Engineer of Mines at Washington Uni-
versity,' St. Louis, in 1883. Immediately on leaving school he took up
the practice of his profession as Engineer of Mines and until 1885 was
assayer and superintendent of the copper department of the St. Louis
Smelting & Refining Company. Mr. Mudd was almost a pioneer in the
famous mining district of Leadville, Colorado, where he located in 1885.
From 1887 to 1912 he was manager of the Small Hops Consolidated
Mining Company and the Boreel Mining Company of Colorado, was
also manager from 1899 to 1902 of the Ibex Mining Company (Little
Johnnie Mine). During 1902-04 Mr. Mudd was Consulting Engineer
in the West for the New Jersey Zinc Company.
Since making his home and headquarters at Los Angeles he was
Consulting Engineer on the Pacific Coast for the Guggenheim Explora-
tion Company and the American Smelting and Refining Company, 1904-
05, and from 1904 to 1909, was president and manager of the Queen
Esther Mining and Milling Company of Kern County, California. He
is largely interested in mining and other enterprises and is a director in
several mining companies.
Mr. Mudd is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi-
neers, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy of England. He is a member of the California
Club, Sunset Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles City Club,
and Rocky Mountain Club of New York. In politics he is a republican
and is a member of the Congregational Church.
February 24, 1887, in Colorado, he married Miss Delia Mulock,
daughter of E. P. and Amanda C. Mulock. She is a member of the
old and prominent Mulock and Greenleaf families. Mr. and Mrs. Mudd
have two children : Harvey S., who married Mildred H. Esterbrook, and
Seeley G., unmarried.
Thomas E. Nf.wlin came to Southern California in the spring of
1887 and^ shortly after his arrival became one of the incorporators of
the company that bought the tract of land on which the City of Whit-
tier now .-tands, and founded and laid out that prosperous city. He
was not only identified with the founding of that community, but also
with its early history and subsequent growth and development, as he
became president of and directed the policies of the fostering company
until 1894.
During most of his life Mr. Newlin has been actively engaged in
banking, and for a number of years has been a prominent figure in the
financial life of Southern California, being at the present time vice
president of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
He was bom in Howard County, Indiafta, June 20, 1850, a son of
Mahlon H. and Mary E. (Maxwell) Newlin. He attended District
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and Friends' private schools in his native city until he was seventeen
years of age, when he moved with his family to Leavenworth County,
Kansas. After completing his preparatory education in private insti-
tutions there and in Indiana, he entered Earlham, the leading Quaker
College in the middle west, situated at Richmond, Indiana, remaining
there for two years, and then was for one year a student in the University
of Kansas.
Shortly after leaving college he was appointed by President Grant
a licensed Indian trader and engaged in that business in Western Kan-
sas and Indian Territory until 1874. He then entered the First National
Bank of Council Grove, Kansas, where he worked six months without
pay and obtained his first practical knowledge of banking, in which dur-
ing the succeeding forty-five years he has been chiefly interested and
practically constantly engaged as a profession. His interest in and
natural' aptitude for the profession was so great that shortly after the
close of his apprenticeship he was made cashier of the bank, serving
in that capacity for two years, and then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, to
accept the assistant cashiership of the First National Bank of that city,
which position he held until coming to California.
In 1894 Mr. Newlin was elected county clerk of the County of Los
Angeles, which position he efficiently occupied for the full term of four
years. He moved with his family to the City of Los Angeles during his
term as County Clerk, and after its expiration, for one year devoted him-
self to the improvement of some of his land near Whittier, and then
again actively became engaged in the banking business as vice president
of the California Bank. Mr. Newlin was one of the organizers and vice
president until 1903 of the American National Bank, which absorbed
the California Bank, and in that year resigned to become a vice president
and director of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
He is also a director of the Security Trust & Savings Bank, and was
one of the organizers and a director of the Rivera State Bank at Rivera.
Mr. Newlin's contribution to the growth of Southern California
has not, however, been confined solely to distinctly financial matters,
as he has also been actively and constantly engaged in the development of
its agricultural resources. While banking has been his vocation, his
avocation has been the taking of raw land and bringing it to a high and
intensive stage of production. He is the owner of splendid orange and
walnut ranch property in the San Gabriel Valley, near Whittier, and
has materially contributed to the development of that section.
Mr. Newlin is a republican in politics, a birthright member of the
Quaker or Friends Church, and a member of the California Club He
married Laurie Hadley at Lawrence, Kansas, on October 30, 1878.
Their three children, Gurney E., Helen (the wife of Dr. Hill Hastings),
and Emilie (the wife of George R. Bell), all reside in Los Angeles.
Layne and Bowler Corporation. The business of the Layne and
Bowler Corporation, one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in
the West, is based primarily on the Layne and Bowler pump for irriga-
tion and municipal service and the dewatering of mines. This pump
was designed and patented by M. E. Layne, April 28, 1903, and was
first operated in the rice fields of Southern Texas. The first factory
for its manufacture was at Houston, Texas.
In 1911 a company was organized in Los Angeles under the name
of the Layne & Bowler Company of California, having the exclusive
rights to manufacture the Layne Patent Pumps and the Layne Patent
screen for the states of California, Arizona and New Mexico.
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In 1912 this company was reorganized as the Layne and Bowler
Corporation, with a personnel of about twenty. Since the reorganiza-
tion there has been a rapid growth, branches having been established
at San Francisco, Willows, Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Riverside an^
San Jose, in California, and at Phoenix, Tucson, and Casa Grand? in
Arizona. The personnel has gradually increased until at the present
day it consists of over two hundred fifty-five members, with M. E.
Layne as head of the corporation. For the first few years of its exist-
ence the corporation drilled wells in addition to manufacturing and
installing pumps and oilwell and water well screens. In 1914, however,
the manufacturing end of the business became so important that the
drilling was abandoned and all the energies of the corporation devoted to
manufacture. Numerous new inventions and improvements have been
made on the pump from time to time, keeping it always in the lead
for this type of machinery, so that it is now used as a standard by
municipalities, railroads, etc., when asking for bids.
The deep well Layne and Bowler turbine pump, installed at the
City of Glendora water plant, was at that time (1914) the de.pest of
that type in the world, pumping water from four hundred feet below the
surface of the ground. Since that time they have built pumps for in-
stallation in mines in Missouri, for total lifts of eight hundred feet, thus
breaking their own record.
In some cases these pumps serve a two-fold purpose. For in-
stance, the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, at Miami, Ari-
zona, utilizes the water it pumps from its mines for its mills, while in
some localities wells are utilized in draining the low marsh land and
pumping the water to the high arid land for irrigation.
In 1916 the first machinery ever manufactured in California for
eastern use was built by the Layne and Bowler Corporation and shipped
to the American Zinc Company at Mascot, Tennessee. This shipment
was made in three carload lots and consisted of five high capacity pumps,
which were used for the dewatering of mines. A spectacular feature of
the transaction was that shipment was made by express and delivery
made in five days from receipt of order, the express charges alone
amounting to $13,500.
During the seven years of its existence approximately 3,300 com-
plete pumping plants have been manufactured and installed by the Layne
and Bowler Corporation. These are located mostly in California,
although there is also a large number in Arizona and New Mexico. These
pumps irrigate some 300.000 acres of land, which is a large percentage
of all the land now under irrigation from pumps, and producing food
supplies in the Western States. The production of grain, citrus fruits,
cotton, etc., is thus made possible.
Various medals have been awarded the Layne and Bowler pump
and screens, the most recent being the ones awarded at the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco on the turbine centri-
fugal pump and oil and water well screens, no higher award having
been given.
Fred H. Herman has a prominent place on the active list of Los
Angeles manufacturers and business men. He has been a resident of
the city since 1902.
Mr. Herman was born in Kent, Ohio, December 16, 1872, son of
Edward and Mary Adeline (Caris) Herman. Leaving high school at
the age of sixteen he went to work for the Erie Railroad Company
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in the yard master's office. Three years later he went into the railroad
machine shop, and after spending four years in the various departments
of the railroad shops he made up his mind that he did not wish to follow
the line of work which his father was following so took up the hotel
business which he followed until coming to Los Angeles in 1902.
On coming to Los Angeles, Mr. Herman took up an entirely diflFerent
line of business. In June, 1902, he was made Los Angeles Sales man-
ager of the Madary Planing Mill and Bee Keepers Supply Company of
Fresno. He resigned his position with them in 1912 to become treasurer
and director of the Layne and Bowler Corporation, and in January, 1916,
was elected vice president, treasurer and assistant general manager of
the corporation.
He is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association,
of the Los Angeles Credit Men's Association, the Chamber of Com-
merce, the Southern California Antomobile club, the Commercial Fed-
eration of California and the Rotary Club. He has also been a very
active member of the Methodist church since coming to California.
Mr. Herman is a republican. He married at Canton, Ohio, June 26,
1900, Elizabeth Berg. They have one son, Jack, born August 4, 1912,
who is now in the public schools.
Robert L. Boyle has been a resident of Los Angeles a number of
years, was at first known in mining circles, but since 1915 has been one
of the leading undertakers of this city.
Mr. Boyle was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 13, 1881, son of
John and Carrie (Demand) Boyle. He was well educated and had a
careful rearing, attending private schools first, and in 1899 graduating
from St. Mary's College at St. Mary's, Kansas. Returning to Cincin-
nati he was with his uncle J. J. Sullivan under the name J. J. Sullivan
& Company, undertakers, as an assistant, and while there acquired a
thorough knowledge of the undertaking business. Mr. Boyle first came
to Los Angeles in 1904 and for the next six years was a mining pro-
moter. He then went back to Cincinnati and was again assistant to his
uncle until 1915. In that year he came to Los Angeles and formed a
partnership with Thomas J. McNally under the firm name of McNally
& Boyle, undertakers. In 1916, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr.
Boyle entered business for himself under his individual name and now
has a complete organization and facilities for his business at 1020 South
Figueroa street.
Mr. Boyle is a Catholic, a member of the Knights of Columbus,
Gamut Club, and the Young Men's Institute. At Los Angeles, December
8, 1908, he married Winifred Ramsey. They have three daughters, Mary
Elizabeth, Alice Winifred and Ada Angalin. The two older daughters
attend the Blessed Sacrament Convent in Hollywood.
WiELi.\M Brayton Ogden, a Los Angeles lawyer with offices in the
American Bank Building, has had a busy professional career not only
in Southern California but in Nevada and Colorado, and during his
younger years played an influential part in Colorado politics.
While his life is not a long one measured in years, he has lived in
many different localities and has had a varied experience. He was
born at Athol, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, August 26,
1876, son of William Norman and Mary L. (Rice) Ogden. When he
was three months old his parents moved back to Jefferson County, New
York, where his mother was bom and reared. His maternal grand-
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father was Albert E. Rice, a California forty-niner who had unusual
good fortune as a gold seeker in the West, and after returning to New
York State bought extensive tracts of land in Jefiferson County along
the banks of the St. Lawrence River. He spent his last years retired
in Chicago. William N. Ogden and wife were married at St. Vincent,
near Watertown, in Jefferson County, New York, and after their resi-
dence in Canada' they lived in that county for a number of years. In
1881 he removed to Chicago and engaged in the business of importing
ponies and horses, making frequent trips to Wales to the pony markets
and to France to buy Percheron horses. In 1886 he moved west to
Boulder, Colorado, where he was engaged in farming until his death in
1901. His widow is now living in Hollywood, California.
William Brayton Ogden, only child of his parents, received some
of his early education in Chicago and from the age of eleven attended
public schools at Boulder, Colorado, also graduated from the State
Preparatory School there and is a graduate of the State University of
Colorado at Boulder. He finished his law course in the University of
Colorado in 1896, receiving his LL. B. degree and admission to the Colo-
rado bar before he was twenty years of age. For six years he prac-
ticed at Boulder and vicinity. During four years he was managing clerk
for Judge S. S. Downer, one of the most powerful men in politics in
Colorado. He practiced two years alone at Boulder and for about three
years was a member of the Chicago bar, being admitted to the Illinois
courts in 1902. In 1905 he moved to Nevada, locating at Goldfield when
that town was the mecca for all the gold miners of the country, He
was admitted to the Nevada bar in that year, and he regards the five
years spent at Goldfield as the happiest period of his life. For four
years he had an individual practice and for one year was associated with
Walter C. Stickney under the name Ogden & Stickney.
In June, 1910, Mr. Ogden came to Los Angeles and was in prac-
tice alone until January 1, 1916, and from that date until January 1,
1918, was in partnership with Ralph E. Esteb under the name of Ogden
& Esteb. Since 1918 he has again been alone and does a general prac-
tice. He is also secretary of a number of oil companies in California,
Nevada and Arizona.
While living at Boulder he served as secretary for six years years
of the County Central Committee, one year as chairman of the Republi-
can County Central Committee. He was also solicitor for the sheriff's
office two years and county attorney of Boulder county a short period
and city attorney of Eldora for three years. For about three years he
was also president of the Bank of Eldora. Mr. Ogden has given an un-
swerving allegiance to the rei)ublican party through all the years since he
attained suffrage. He is a member of the American Bar Association,
is a Delta Tau Delta, a member of the Union League of Los Angeles,
Chamber of Conmierce, and is affiliated with Hollywood Lodge No. 355,
F". and A. M.
He and his family reside at West Hollywood. On June 19, 1911, at
Los Angeles, he married Miss Alta May Swartwout, daughter of F. D.
and Emma Bell (Andrews) Swartwout of Los Angeles. Mrs. Ogden
was born in Hardin county, Iowa, and was three years of age when she
came with her parents to Los Angeles, where she was educated, being a
graduate of the State Normal School. Before her marriage she taught
at Graham in Los Angeles county. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden have one son,
George Robert Ogden, born in Los Angeles county.
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John H. Gage. The place of John H. Gage in Los Angeles busi-
ness circles will be immediately and widely recognized when it is st ted
that he is founder of and is secretary and manager of the Pig'n Whistle
Company, whose wonderful stores and confectionery and ice cream
parlors are the talk and admiration of every visitor to the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Gage has had a most unusual and varied business career. He
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1876, son of Charles F.
and Martha (Adams) Gage. His father, who was born at Lowell,
Massachusetts, in 1846, had a common school education, and went to
work as station agent for the Boston & Maine Railroad at Lynn, Mi?sa-
chusetts. He was there a year, was freight claim agent, and is a vet-
eran and master of railway traffic and very recently retired as general
freight claim agent after fifty-one years of continuous service with the
Boston & Maine.
John H. Gage at the age of five years accompanied his parents to
Winchester, Massachusetts, where he received his early schooling, gradu-
ating from high school at the age of seventeen. Much of his experience
in business has been in hotels and in early life he was connected with
hotels all over the country. He first came to Los Angeles in 1892, and
for six months was clerk with J. P. Stocksdale, retail grocer. From
here he went east to Chicago and for six months had charge of one
of the concessions at the World's Fair. His next location was at Phoenix,
Arizona, where he conducted a restaurant a year. He then became
steward for the Lane Hospital in San Francisco a year and a half,
was steward for the Children's Hospital one year, and for a year and
a half was steward on the Southern Pacific dining car system. For one
year he was manager with the Markell Hotel System, then conducted a
restaurant at San Francisco nine months, and soon after Tonopah became
the center of the great mining industry of Nevada he established a
restaurant there, also engaged in the general merchandise business under
the name Gage & Long. Returning to San Francisco in 1906 Mr.
Gage erected the Gage office building at Seventh and Market streets,
and in conjunction therewith operated the Hotel America.
But the distinctive feature of his business history is concerned with
the "Pig'n Whistle" organization. On December 12, 1908, he opened
the first Pig'n Whistle confectionery store at 224 South Broadway, in
Los Angeles. This store immediately became famous for its splendid
and expensive interior finish, entirely in solid mahogany, and costing
twenty-five thousand dollars. Since then the company has expended
more than fifteen thousand dollars additional for furnishings. In 1912
he opened the second store at 212 West Fifth Street. This was also
finished in mahogany at a cost of eight thousand dollars. In 1914 the
third store was established at Pasadena, costing twelve thousand dol-
lars. Here also the treatment in mahogany has been carried out. Decem-
ber 8, 1914, the fourth store was opened at 712-14 South Broadway,
and on this was expended eighty thousand dollars. Persons competent
to judge have asserted that it is the finest confectionery and ice cream
parlor in the LTnited States, and there are few who would dissent
from this judgment. One feature of this fourth store is its wonderful
oil paintings, valued at sixty thousand dollars, some of which have
received gold medals both at the San Francisco Fair and the Paris
Exposition.
Mr. Gage has been secretary and manager of the Pig'n Whistle
Company since December 12, 1908. They are not only dealers but manu-
facturers of ice cream and candies, and their products have a national
reputation.
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Mr. Gage is a member of the Los Angeles Rotary Club, is a repub-
lican and a member of the Congregational Church. At San Francisco,
January 6, 1903, he married Miss Isidore Violet Gray. They have one
daughter, Dorothy, born in 1917.
Lawrence L. Frank during his residence at Los Angeles has been
identified with one of the most important services that can engage the
attention of business men, that of providing and distributing whole-
some food stufifs. He is one of the partners in the well known T. J.
Van de Kamp Company, whose chain of bakeries and whose products
of Holland bread and cakes are household words as well as composing
part of the staff of daily life throughout Los Angeles and surrounding
territory.
Mr. Frank was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 23, 1887,
son of Nathan and Bertha Frank. His education before he was eighteen
was the product of attendance at public schools and under a private
tutor. Since then he has been mal<ing his way in the business world
on his own account. For four years he sold furniture for his brother
Arthur A. Frank. His next associate was his father in the meat pack-
ing business, under the firm name of L. Frank & Son Company. Three
years later the son withdrew and established a business of his own, in the
wholesale confectionery novelties business. Eight months later he sold
out and came to Los Angeles, and here found an opening with Kramer-
Frank Food Company and with his brother Ralph as a partner. For this
company Lawrence L. Frank opened and managed their shelled nut
department for one year. Another year he spent as salesman with the
Pasadena Furniture Company, and then in 1915 established the T. J.
Van de Kamp Company, with T. J. Van de Kamp, his brother-in-law.
As told in the sketch of Mr. Van de kamp this is one of the remarkable
instances of business progress and development in Los Angeles and
starting with a meager capital and with the principals practically un-
known in Los Angeles, their output has been increased until their capital
and their individual resources are now devoted to a half dozen plants
and stores.
Mr. Frank is independent in politics. He owns a beautiful home at
969 Woodland avenue in Pasadena. He married in Los Angeles, March
28, 1913, Miss Henrietta Van de Kamp, of Milwaukee.
Ray L. Chesebro, a judge of the Police Court of Los Angeles, is
a lawyer of ten years' experience and practice, and came into his pro-
fession after a long service as a railroad man, stenographer and private
secretary to a number of railroad officials and public commissions.
Mr. Chesebro was born at Mazeppa, Minnesota, August 28, 1880,
a son of George and Sarah (Hill) Chesebro. He was left an orphan
by the death of his mother when he was seven years old and that of
his father when he was ten. He then lived with his grandfather,
attended school to the age of fifteen, and for two years took his place
as a field hand on his grandfather's farm. At the age of seventeen he
went to Pine Island, Minnesota, studied telegraphy under James Fine-
gan, station agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and after
a year and a half was appointed a night telegraph operator at Minne-
apolis for the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. He was in that posi-
tion for a year and a half, and from there went to St. Paul and was
with his cousin W. A. Tilden in the wholesale commission business for
another year and a half. He next became connected with the auditing
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department of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and for one year carried
on night studies in stenography. His first work as a stenographer was
in the general freight office of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railroad, and subsequently he became private secretary to H. M.
Pearce, the general freight agent.
Leaving Minnesota Judge Chesebro came to Los Angeles in 1904,
and for eighteen months was a stenographer in the offices of the Santa
Fe Railway. He was secretary of the Consolidation Commission of
Los Angeles until that commission wound up its work in 1907. His next
service was as secretary to the Los Angeles County Highway Cornmis-
'sion, and while with that body he again resumed night study, this time
in a law course, and was admitted to the bar in 1909. He at once
resigned from the Highway Commission and began private practice.
In 1911 he was appointed judge of the Police Court and has since been
twice re-elected and has made a thoroughly capable record in that office.
Judge Chesebro is a republican, a member of the Los Angeles Bar
Association, is affiliated with the' Masons, Elks and Foresters, and is a
member of the First Christian Church. At Los Angeles, April 9, 1909,
he married Ada Tripp. They have two children, Marvin, born in 1913 ;
and Geraldine, born in 1915.
J. Robert O'Connor. On October 1, 1917, President Wilson
appointed J. Robert O'Connor, of Los Angeles, United States District
Attorney for California to succeed Albert Schoonover. When on Janu-
ary 8, 1918, the United States Senate confirmed this appointment their
act made Mr. O'Connor the youngest incumbent of the office of district
attorney in any of the states of the Union. It was a notable honor to
a young lawyer, and a man whose record has been not without distinc-
tion. The appointment was made the occasion for a notable gathering
of his friends, and when Mr. O'Connor was called upon for a speech
he told some of the interesting facts of his career and how he happened
to become identified with Southern California. In the course of that
speech he gave all the credit for his work and the honors that had come
to him to two women, his good mother and his good wife, from whom
he received the inspiration and the strengthening of his resolve at
all the critical turns of his career.
Mr. O'Connor was born at Stanberry, Missouri, July 13, 1885, a
son of Edward and Laura Belle (Fielding) O'Connor. His father was
bom at Columbus, Ohio, October 28, 1855. was educated there, practiced
his profession as a civil engineer at Stanberry, Missouri, later removed
to Texas, where he died several years ago. At Fayette, Missouri, in
1884, he married Laura Belle Fielding, and they had only one child. J.
Robert.
The latter was educated in the public schools of Galveston and
Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the high school of the latter city
■ in 1905. He studied law in the University of Texas at Austin, graduat-
ing LL.B. in 1908. He returned to Dallas and on February 1, 1912,
went to Midland, Texas, and in November of the same year arrived in
California. But from here the record is best told in the words of his
speech to his friends.
"Six y^ars ago I left the State of Texas to come to California^
After my graduation I started to try to practice law in Dallas, Texas.
I vCas not achieving any remarkable success. One day I met a lawyer
friend from a little western town by the name of Midland, who told me
that Midland was on a boom, that a new railroad was going to go
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through the town and business was humming. He suggested to me that
old 'go west, young man' proposition. And so I put my law library,
consisting of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, in my pocket,
and went west. For a while things boomed nicely. I won a few cases,
among them the most important case of a man's life — a wife — and then
all of a sudden the directors of that railroad changed their minds and
likewise changed the right of way of that railroad, and it missed Midland
and pretty soon Midland missed the boom and the bottom fell out. It
was not long until I fotjyid I was back again to my original law library
constituting the Statutes of the State of Texas, and with only a couple
of dollars in my pocket. I decided I had not gone far enough west.
So I consulted with my wife and we decided to go further west, and we
got on the train and went all the way to Long Beach, and we decided
that was as far as we could go without getting wet. That was six
years ago, my friends. I arrived in the State of California with a
copy of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas and with a couple
of dollars in my pocket. I did not have a friend in the state, nor was
I upon speaking terms with any man here. I had two letters of intro-
duction. Outside of that I had nothing except the courage and the hope
of that little wife of mine.
"I soon found that the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas were not
enforced in the State of California, so I lost my law library. One of
my letters of introduction was to a man by the name of O'Neal in San
Diego. So I went down to San Diego and presented my letter to him
and said, 'Mr. O'Neal, what chance is there in San Diego for an hon-
est young lawyer who is a democrat?' He said, 'My friend, as an hon-
est young lawyer you will have absolutely no competition, and as a
democrat you will be protected by the game laws of the state.' So I
spent my last dollar and opened a law office and waited for my victims
to appear. The most I did was to wait. After about a month or so
Mr. O'Neal called me to his office one day and said, 'O'Connor, are you
busy?' I said 'Not unreasonably so.' He said, 'I have decided to run
for mayor and I want you to manage my campaign.' I said to him,
'Well, I can't be of any service to you; I am a stranger here and abso-
lutely can't do you any good.' He said, 'The very fact you are a
stranger here is the reason I want you to manage my campaign. You
haven't been here long enough for them to find out anything about you.
especially anything bad, and that is why I want you to manage my
campaign.' O'Neal's opponent was one of the merchant princes of
San Diego, a man by the name of George W. Marston. He had been
in San Diego for forty years and was really the father of the city.
O'Neal was a newcomer, having been there only seven years, and worst
of all he was a real estate man. But I had seen something of politics
back in Texas, so I started in to manage his campaign as best I knew
how, and when the votes were counted O'Neal was elected."
And that was Mr. O'Connor's real introduction to the people of
California, and at San Diego he grew in favor and acquired a consid-
erable law business. On February 1, 1914, he was appointed Third
Assistant United States Attorney by District Attorney Albert Schoon-
over. In 1915 he was promoted to second assistant, and in 1916 was
again promoted to first assistant and in 1917 was appointed United
States Attorney by the United States District Court. Following that
came the presidential appointment with senatorial confirmation above
noted.
Mr. O'Connor is a valuable aid to the government as a skillful
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lawjer, a man of experience in affairs, and among men, but most of
all his work has been appreciated because these qualities have been sup-
plemented by the sterling patriotism which has prompted him to use
all the prestige of his office and personal influence to back up the gov-
ernment in the war. And some day when it will be possible to review in
detail the war record of Southern California there will be more than
incidental credit given to the district attorney's office and its incumbent.
Mr. O'Connor is affiliated with the Elk and Masonic orders, is a
member of the Phi Delta Theta, the City Club of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County and State Bar Associations and is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.
At Midland, Texas, June 10, 1912, he married Marion Gray. They
have three children : George Gray, born in 1913 ; J. Robert, Jr., born in
1915, and Mathew Gunner, born in 1917.
John E. Koeberle. The history of the oil development in Cali-
fornia covers a period hardly more than thirty-five years, and it is an
interesting fact that John E. Koeberle, of Los Angeles, has been iden-
tified with the industry practically from the beginning. His experi-
ence, judgment and initiative have served to promote some of the most
widely known oil fields of the State, and either with corporations or
independently he has well earned his fame as one of the leading
operators.
Mr. Koeberle was born at Paducah, Kentucky, April 13, 1866, son
of Dr. Theodore Koeberle. He finished his education in the Richmond
Academy at Augusta, Georgia, leaving school in 1882, and coming west
to Los Angeles in the fall of the same year. For a time he was em-
ployed as bookkeeper in a hardware store, but in 1884 acquired his
first practical knowledge of the oil industry as clerk with the Puente
Oil Company. He was soon given responsibilities in the selling and
distributing of crude oil. At that time there were only two consumers
of fuel oil in Southern California, one being the Los Angeles Gas &
Electric Corporation and the other being the Maier & Zobelein Brewery.
These two firms consumed the entire production of the Puente Oil Com-
pany. The maximum production of the company at that time being
about 9,000 barrels per month, which was furnished to these consum-
ers in small tank cars at $2.00 per barrel f. o. b. Los Angeles, plus
switching charge of $2.50 per car. Mr. Koeberle was with the company
when they erected the Chino refinery and made the first discovery of
the fact that gasoline from California crude petroleum and of 74 degrees
of gravity, had a calorific value of about one-third more than the eastern
product. The entire product of the company was sold for gasoline
stove cooking and found much more economical than the artificial gas
which was then being furnished for family cooking at $2.00 per 1,000
cubic feet.
In 1895 he resigned and joined the Rex Oil Company, as assistant
to the general manager, and soon afterwards was given charge of that
company's field operations. In 1897, he was transferred to the Kern
River field in Kern County, and there started the drilling of the second
well in that field. He was thus instrumental in bringing into production
the largest field in the state. In 1907 the company sold out to the Reed
Crude Oil Company, Mr. Koeberle remaining with the latter and spend-
ing three years in extending the use of fuel oil over the northern part
of the state. In the time of over-production of that field, he sold oil as
low as ten cents per barrel loaded on cars in the field.
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He then retired, and spent two years resting at Los Angeles. He
then interested capital in the Sherman Oil Field near Los Angeles,
on the Ida Hancock property, and within about one year had developed
a field production of more than five thousand barrels per day. Within
about eighteen months after first operation in this field the company
sold forty-nine per cent of its stock to the Associated Oil Company
for a large remuneration. Immediately after that deal the Associated
formed the Amalgamated Oil Company, for the further development of
the field, and later the remaining holdings of the original company was
purchased by the Associated on the basis of about three million dollars
for the property. Mr. Koeberle, remained with the Amalgamated Oil
Company as purchasing agent and superintendent of transportation six
years.
His next work was in developing some virgin territory in the Mid-
way Field for the Wellman Oil Company. Mr. Koe^berle was field man-
ager and developed the property to a considerable production. Later
these holdings were sold to Oakland capitalists, and for some years past
the Standard Oil Company has owned this property. Since about 1911
Mr. Koeberle has been employing his resources and experience as an
independent operator in California properties. He is affiliated with the
Knights of the Maccabees and in politics is independent. At Buffalo,
New York, October 4, 1905, he married Harriet E. Bourne.
Ebenezer Burr founded and has built up a business which is now
one of the chief distributing and producing milk concerns in Los Angeles.
Mr. Burr has had a wide and varied experience in business afifairs, was
at one lime a clerk in Los Angeles, and secured his first practical knowl-
edge of the dairy industry while living in Oregon.
He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, March 24, 1871, a son of
Ebenezer and Annie Burr. He attended grammar school to the age of
fourteen, worked on stock farms for three years, and for five years
clerked in a dry goods store at Aberdeen. With his parents, he came
from Aberdeen to Los Angeles, and in this city was employed a year
as clerk for the J. M. Hale & Company dry goods house. Another three
years was spent on a ranch near Los Angeles, after which he went to
Spokane, Washington, and entered the service of the Hazelwood Cream-
ery Company. He was first a driver, then salesman, and finally had
charge of the branch of the company at Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Burr, having made a thorough study of the creamery and dairy
business, returned to Los Angeles in 1901 and started the Burr Cream-
er}' Company, of which he has since been president. The first head-
quarters of this concern were at the comer of Seventh and Olive Streets,
in the Pellissier Block. The business began with a modest capital and
equipment and only five employes. In 1906 the city offices were moved
to Eighth and Towne Streets, and today the company has a hundred
people in its employ, and operates twenty-five automobile delivery ve-
hicles. They also have twenty acres near Los Angeles, at Vernon,
equipped with a model dairy establishment. There are a hundred head
of registered stock besides four hundred grade Holstein cows. A thous-
and gallons of pure milk are produced every day at the company's plant.
The company also distributes large quantities of milk bought from other
]iroducers.
Georgia P. Bullock. One of the important by-products of a great
war is the liberation of ideas and ideals from prejudice and convention.
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Even now the world is viewing witiiout consternation and in fact with
approval changes in the economic and social structure which would have
been called revolutionary four or five years ago. It is important to
remember that while the war has been an actuated force in bringing
these changes to the surface, their real cause must be traced much
further back and is found in the resolute purpose and unflinching effort
of many pioneers who formulated and directed the movement until
the propitious time.
In the work which has been done to broaden the sphere of woman's
vocational and political opportunity and freedom, one of those most
active in Los Angeles has been Mrs. Georgia P. Bullock, herself a prom-
inent attorney and one of the pioneers of her profession. In her pro-
fessional career she has been actuated not only by an honest ambition
to make the best of her talents in the profession but also to blaze the
trail for other women to follow and demonstrate that the mental capa-
city which admittedly is not less in woman than in man should com-
mand the same positions and receive the same honors and rewards.
Mrs. Bullock has given her time and energies to become a wholly cap-
able lawyer, but through all her work has been guided and stimulated
by the thought of what she might do to improve the status of woman
in general.
Mrs. Bullock was born in Chicago. That her early training and edu-
cation were such as to bring out and develop her best and broadest tal-
ents may be inferred from noting briefly th; institutions and sources of
such education. She attended Von Ende's Private School for Girls in
Chicago, Lake View High School, in the same city, the Archdeacon's
School for Girls at Swansea, South Wales, England, St. Mary's Academy
at Notre Dame, Indiana, had private tutors in foreign languages, was a
student in the Chicago Musical College, graduated from the Isaac Wood-
bury's Business College and some years ago she graduated from the Col-
lege of Law of the University of Southern California, with the degree
LL.B. She was admitted to practice law by the District Court of Appeal
for the Southern District of the State of California, and was also ad-
mitted to practice in the District Court of the United States in and for
the Southern District.
Before taking up practice and while a student at the University of
Southern California, she was made a voluntary probation officer in the
Juvenile Court. She served in that capacity over a year and handled
a number of cases. She spent considerable part of one year attending
the sessions of the Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles
county devoted to cases of insane persons, in order to make a special
study of nervous diseases. She has also done appraisement work in the
Probate Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles county,
though she did not devote her time exclusively to that branch.
Mrs. Bullock was twice elected one of the vice-presidents of the
National Women Lawyers' Association, particularly representing in that
association the interests of the women of the State of California. She
has also lectured before numerous organizations in Southern California
on the subject of the "Woman's Court" and opportunities for women in
the legal profession. Other subjects covered in these lectures pertain
particularly to the criminal law. She acted as referee of the Woman's
Police Court of Los Angeles for about two years.
Mrs. Bullock has been handling a private practice for seven years.
On October 2, 1918, she was sworn in as deputy district attorney of
Los Angeles county. The Los Angeles Express referring to that appoint-
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ment said : "Mrs. Georgia P. Bullock, one of the most prominent women
members of the Los Angeles legal profession was appointed today as a
deputy in the district attorney's office, to take the position left vacant
by Mrs. Kemper B. Campbell, resigned. Mrs. Bullock is prominent
socially. Lives in South Pasadena and has offices in the California
Building. In many litigations before the courts of California Mrs.
Bullock has figured prominently. Although most of her practice has
been confined to civil courts, she has appeared as chief counsel in sev-
eral of the most involved criminal cases before the Los Angeles courts
in the last few years."
She is a member of the Phi Delta Delta Legal Sorority, the Bar
Association of Los Angeles County, the Woman's Professional Club,
and the Southern California Woman's Press Club. Mrs. Bullock has two
children, Mary Morgan Bullock, aged eighteen, and Percy WingfielQ
Bullock, aged sixteen. The daughter is studying music under the noted
voice teacher and critic Francis Walker. Her voice is being trained for
the opera. The son is a student of the South Pasadena High School
and his present ambitions are for the law.
Oma L. Grimsley of Los Angeles has had perhaps as wide and
diversified an experience in the real Far West as any other resident.
He is a man of achievement, and at the same time is one of the younger
and more progressive element in the affairs of Southern California.
Mr. Grimsley was born at Jonesboro, Washington County, Ten-
nessee, August 23, 1877, and attended public school there to the age
of fourteen. The next ten years he spent as a cow puncher in Montana,
Wyoming and Colorado. At Cripple Creek, Colorado, he achieved his
first definite success in the mining field and acquired some valuable
property there. At the end of eighteen months he sold out and, remov-
ing to Goldfield, bought mining property, "The Goldfield Consolidated."
This he later sold at a big profit. He then went to Rawhide and pur-
chased other mining property. He did some development work and
eighteen months later sold his holdings at a big profit.
In prospecting over the Southwest for another location, Mr. Grims-
ley became interested in the district around La Paz, bordering on the
Colorado River Indian Reservation. That had been a center for placer
gold mining operations for half a century or more. In surveying the
Indian Reservation the government in 1876 had run its mine so as to
improve the placer field. Then, in March, 1910, the south boundary
line was re-established, thus leaving the land open for private holding.
Mr. Grimsley, having formed the New La Paz Gold Mining Company,
of which he has since been president and general manager, acquired
1,546 acres of the placer lands, not far from Yuma, and immediately
began operations for development by hydraulic mining. These opera-
tions were halted when, in February, 1912, the government resurveyed
the land and re-established it at its original location of 1876. At a cost
of many thousand dollars, the company took the case before the Depart-
ment of Interior, and in November, 1915, by executive order signed by
President Wilson, the property was again freed, and since then the com-
pany has been allowed to operate without further official hindrance.
According to reports of engineers and other authorities, a hundred forty
acres of the tract owned by this company has shown tests of profitable
value, and the New La Paz Gold Mining Company has a correspondingly
high rating on exchanges where legitimate gold mining stock is sold.
Mr. Grimsley in the meantime has been identified with a number
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of other enterprises. In 1902 he went to South America and spent a
year mining in the Andes Mountains. From June, 1905, to October,
1907, he operated the Grimsley Wild West Show, one of the best
organizations of its kind.
Mr. Grimsley is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a
member of the Mines and Oil Committee of the Chamber of Commerce,
and is a member of the Pike's Peak Summit Motor Club. He is a re-
publican in politics. At Santa Ana, California, Februai-y 21, 1912, he
married Miss Ella M. Herron of Zanesville, Ohio. They have two
children. Rose May, born in 1914, and John O., born in 1917.
Mr. Grimsley's parents were James Lofton and Polly (Hulse)
Grimsley. His father was born in Washington County, Tennessee,
February 11, 1841, and was a Tennessee farmer until 1902. He then
spent four years farming and fruit growing in the Rocky Ford com-
munity of Colorado, and since then has been owner of a garage at Swink,
Colorado.
Horace G. Cates, a former well-known physician of Santa Monica,
and who died March 27, 1911, was one of the founders and until his
death an active factor in the C. C. Harris Oil Company, which today is
the largest company operating in the old Los Angeles oil fields.
Dr. Horace G. Cates was born at East Vassalboro, Maine, in May,
1863, son of Dr. C. B. Cates, who also came to California and practiced
medicine at Santa Monica. Horace G. Cates graduated from Colby
University, in Maine, in 1883, being the youngest member of his class.
He studied medicine at Minneapolis, Minnesota, graduating from the
Hospital College there in 1887. He then began practice at Santa Monica,
where, in addition to his professional responsibilities, he entered actively
into many business aiifairs and did much to improve the business district
of Santa Monica.
In 1906 Doctor Cates, with C. C. Harris and Alton Cates, organized
the C. C. Harris Oil Company. In February, 1909, the business was in-
corporated under the same name, with Dr. Cates as president, and C. C.
Harris as manager. On the death of Doctor Cates, in March, 1911, his
widow, Mrs. Cates, succeeded him as president. In April, 1914, C. C.
Harris resigned as manager and director and was succeeded by E. R.
Snyder as secretary, general manager and director. Alton M. Cates, a
brother of the late Dr. Cates, is now vice president, director and attorney
for the company, while C. C. Donnatin is treasurer and director, and
C. B. Cates a director. The business is still located where it was estab-
lished, at 701 College Street, in Los Angeles. The partners opened their
operations by drilling and buying old wells, until at the present time they
own one hundred sixteen wells and lease eighteen. They manufacture
oil for street and road paving and their wells produce about seven
thousand barrels per month.
Alton M. Cates, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, is also vice
president, director and attorney for the C. C. Harris Oil Company, the
largest corporation in the Los Angeles oil field.
Mr. Cates was born at East Vassalboro, Maine, June 13, 1872, son
of Dr. Charles B. and Margaret B. Cates. He was liberally educated,
first attending a private Quaker school, known as the Moses Brown
School. At the age of seventeen he entered the University of Minne-
sota, graduating in the classical course with the degree A. B. in 1894.
He spent the following year in the law department of the same university.
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and on coming West to Los Angeles, wliere his parents had located some
years previously, he spent one year in the law offices of Bicknell and
Trask. He was then admitted to the bar and has practiced law ever
since. He has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States and is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association.
On December 1. 1913. he formed the partnership of Gates & Robinson,
whose offices are in the Washington Building, at Los Angeles. Mr.
C'ates is a republican in politics.
May 18, 1912, at Los Angeles, he married Claire Smith. By a
former marriage he has a son, Vincent, who was born at Los Angeles
July 20, 1902. Vincent attended the Los Angeles Military Academy
and is now a student in Washburn College, at Topeka, Kansas.
Jo.\CHiM H. F. Jarchow. It is difficult to do full credit in a brief
sketch to the life history of the late Mr. Jarchow, who for more than
forty years made his home at San Gabriel and during that time gave
the best that was in him and of his influence to the growth and welfare
of his community. His life story is that of a self-made man, one who
came poor and alone to American shores, and exemplified the finest
\irtues of the pioneer in the conquest of the Middle and the Far West.
He arrived in this country more than sixty years ago, reaching
New York with a single dollar in his pocket, one-half of which he spent
for his first American breakfast. From humble and inauspicious be-
ginnings he made steady progress by force of his industry, integrity ant!
application and honest eiTorts. In his declining years he enjoyed the
fruits of his well spent career at his attractive home at Mission Road
and Main streets in San Gabriel, where amid his orange groves and
flowers, surrounded by friends and neighbors, he quietly passed awa}-
September 21, 1919, when in his ninety-fifth year.
The late Mr. Jarchow was born January 13, 1825, in the northern
portion of Germany about fifty miles from the city of Hamburg. He
grew up on a farm. At an early age he learned to assume his share of
farm duties. As a boy he milked the cows and did other farm tasks
fitted to his size and strength. He was eighteen years of age when
his father died. Being the oldest of seven children he conscientiously
assumed increased responsibilities in looking after the family and re-
mained on the home farm until he was nearly thirty years of age. Then,
having seen his brothers and sisters come to manhood and womanhood,
he determined to seek the greater opportunities of America. October
20, 1853, he sailed from Hamlourg on a sailing vessel. After three
months on the ocean the boat reached New York harbor January 10,
1854. There he met a friend who supplied him with transportation to
Bufifalo. At Buffalo he cut wood for a time, and soon found an oppor-
tunity to work on a small farm at wages of ten dollars a month and
board. He milked cows, looked after the stock and did other farm work.
The second year his wages were raised to twelve dollars a month. His
next employment was on a large milk farm, where he milked twenty or
more cows night and morning. When he tired of this employment
he made the next important steii in his pioneer progress, going out
in Minnesota Territory, and at Stillwater for one year, 1856-57, he
worked in a lumber yard. Fie also took up a government claim. About
the time the Civil war began in America he and his three brothers went
to a point twenty miles below Memphis, Tennessee, and took a con-
tract to cut wood. Soon the trend of fighting moved in their direction
and the brothers gave up their enterprise anrl returned to Minnesota
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where they resumed farming on their claim. Jointly they had a hun-
dred twenty acres, most of which they cleared and improved and brought
under cultivation. They were stock farmers, and while in Minnesota
Mr. Jarchow did rhuch to improve and raise the standard of dairy cows
in his district. He and his brothers were the first settlers in their par-
ticular locality, and they did real pione.r work in laying the foundation
of a civilization which later comers enjoyed.
Mr. Jarchow left Minnesota and came to California- in 1876, the
centennial year. Tales of the marvelous resources and wond:rs of the
Southwest were being continually read at that time as at present, and
Mr. larchow finally determined to t.st the words of others by his own
personal observation. Selling his Minnesota farm he arrived in San
Gabriel, February 28, 1876. At first he rented a small tract but soon
bought his home place of ten acres. This land like most of the lands
around San Gabriel at that time, was raw and practically unproductive.
Once pgain Mr. Jarchow started in as a pioneer, in a manner repeating
what he had done in Minnesota many years previous. He set out an
orange grove, from year to year added to the beauty and adornments
of hfs home. While without experience in the growing of citrus fruit,
orange culture seemed to come natural with him, and in the course of
time he was regarded as an authority on orange growing in his valley.
At an early day he sold his oranges for as high as five dollars a box.
One season his oranges were awarded the only gold medal given by the
Pasadena Fair. He had many other medals given his crop at fairs and
exhibits, and he probably took more satisfaction in the superior quality
of his fruit than in th? financial profit that he gathered. He w^as identi-
fied with every progressive movement in his locality, being a member ot
the Grange in early years. He us:d his influence and co-operated with
his neighbors in creating and perfecting the water system for the irri-
gation of the lands in his district, and for a number of y?ars served as
water superintendent. Throughout his residence at San Gabriel he was
known as a stanch friend of education and served his school district
very capably as a member of the Board of School Trustees.
Mr. Jarchow was twice married. His first wife was. Miss Sophia
Bruck. they were married in Minnesota, in 1862. Her death occurred
in San Gabriel, in 1900. Two vears later at San Gabriel Mr. Jarchow
marri d Mrs. Johanna Kretchmer, widow of Otto Kretchmer and daugh-
ter of Henry Lahl. Mrs. Jarchow was born in Germany and came to
the United States February 16, 1882.
Fr.nnk p. Doherty, who served as a captain and major of infantry
with the Ninety-first Division in France, has been known for a number
of years in Los Angeles. He has practiced law in California ever since
his admission to the bar in 1911.
Mr. Doherty was born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 27, 1885, a
son of Edward and Mary (Byrne) Doherty. He was raised in his
native state and Virginia. After finishing high school he attended college
for one year at Baltunore. He lived for one year in the Panama Canal
Zone at the time the government first start d operations upon the Panama
Canal. After returnirg from the Canal Zone he lived in New York and
Arizona, and later moved to Los Angeles. He studied law at the Uni-
versity of Southern California, and was graduated in 1911, rec-ivmg
the degree LL. B. He was associated in practice with Kemper B. Camp-
bell until April, 1914, and after that practiced alone until he entered the
army.
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In August, 1917, he entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at
the Presidio in San Francisco and was commissioned captain of infantry.
He was assigned to the Ninety-first Division at Camp Lewis, Washing-
ton, and served with the Ninety-first Division continuously, both in the
United States and in France. He participated in the San Mihiel drive,
September, 191fS, and in two phases of the battle of the Meuse-Argonne.
He was wounded near Gesnes, PYance, October 9, 1918, but was suf-
ficiently recovered to rejoin his division November 13, 1918, remain-
ing with this organization until demobilization. May 1, 1919. He was
commissioned major of infantry October 10, 1918.
Upon returning to Los AngeLs he immediately re-entered the prac-
tice of the law, and is associated witli Leo V. Youngworth, with offices
in the Merchants National Bank Building.
Mr. Doherty is a charter member of the American Legion, is a
member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, Chamber of Commerce, and
Los Angeles Athletic Liub, is an Elk, a Knight of Columbus and a
republican. He married Sarah E. Patten, a native daughter of Cali-
fornia. They have three children, Frank W., born in 1915; James A.,
born in 1917, and John E., born in 1919.
Arthur Keetch. The city of Los Angeles is the home of many
men prominent in the learned professions, and the law is ably repre-
sented by practitioners of talent and experience. A leading member
of the bar here is Arthur Keetch, who has been an active, useful citizen
of Los Ang.les for sixteen years, and during that time has achieved
eminence at the bar.
Arthur Keetch was born at Birmingham, England, March 15, 1867,
and is a son of William and Louise (Hawkes) Keetch. Before he was
twenty-one years old he had enjoyed a short period of school attendance,
then had gone to sea, and before returning to England had made cruises
that encircled the globe and acquired a fund of practical knowledge that
in atterlife has not come amiss.
In England he took up newspaper work, and after coming to the
United States secured a position as an official reporter on the staff of
the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. He continued for
some years his interest in this line of work, and then returned to jour-
nalism. Desiring to fit himself for the legal profession, he entered Lake
Forest University, Illinois, in 1890, successfully passed his bar examina-
tion, and immediately entered upon the practice of law in the city of
Chicago. He remained there several y^ars, then moved to Texas and
established a practice at Galveston and was appointed city recorder,
After eight years of satisfactory practice there, and the building up of
pleasant social relations, the great flood that overwhelmed Galveston and
disturbed the foundations of normal business for a time was the ca.ise
of his removing to New Mexico, and there, with headquarters at Alamo-
gordo, he resided until 1902, as assistant attorney for the El Paso &
Northeastern Railroad. In that year he married, and a year later came to
Los Angeles, where he has been in active practice ever since, both evil
and criminal law.
In 1910 he was appointed deputy district attorney, and served in
that capacity with much distinction for a period of eight years. He
resigned his official position to enter private practice, but was retained
as a special proscutor of arson cases by the Board of Fire Under-
writers of the Pacific. He also made a special study of automobile law,
and in this connection published a brochure entitled "The Motorist and
the Law," which has received much favorable comment.
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In October of 1919, Mr. Keetcli was appointed deputy attorney
general for Southern California, which official position he now occupies.
Mr. Keetch was married in 1902, at Denver, Colorado, to Miss
Amber Minen'a Yates, daughter of a well-known merchant of Farming-
ton, Illinois, and they have one child, Florence, who is attending school.
Mr. Keetch is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association and the
California State Bar Association. He is a Mason and an Elk, and is
identified with the lodges of these organizations at Pasadena.
William M. Bowen is a lawyer of wide and successful experience,
an active member of the California Bar for over thirty years, and achieved
his early successes as a result of a tremendous expenditure of energy in
combating circumstances that did not permit him to acquire his educa-
tion by a comfortable routine.
He was born at Lowell in Lake County, Indiana, January 16, 1862,
and in 1870, when he was eight years of age his parents, Peter M.
and Chloe (Miller) Bowen moved to Osage County, Kansas, then a
frontier Indian district. He lived there four years and in 1874 the
family returned to Indiana and located in Jasper County. There Mr.
Bowen, while attending school, worked on a farm. In 1876, at the age
of fourteen, he went out to Sedgwick County, Kansas, and was busied
with farming there until 1880. The following four years he spent farm-
ing at Stewartville, in Clinton County, Missouri, where in the summer
of 1884 he sold all of his earthly belongings on time, and in September,
1884, arrived in California and located near Niles, where he soon was
enrolled as a student in Washington College. Shortly after entering
college his creditor in Missouri vient through bankruptcy and left him
without a penny. He was determined to get an education; to pay his
board and tuition, he worked every day on the college farm from seven
o'clock in the morning until noon, attending his classes in the afternoon,
and from eight o'clock in the evening until eleven done janitor work.
His father died in Alameda County, California, in April, 1885,
and just prior to his death he had purchased seventy acres of hill land
covered with rock and scrub oak near Napa, California. Mr. Bowen
took his mother and four sisters to Napa to live on the ranch, and he
entered the Methodist College at Napa, but finding it impossible to make
both ends meet, after one semester, abandoned his college career for
the time being and took to the task of clearmg the farm and quarrying
rock at twenty-five cents per load. As he had his heart set on the prac-
tice of law, however, he got a few second-hand law books and the cast-
away advance sheets of the Reporter system through Judge Henry C.
Gesford, of Napa, in exchange for janitor work at his office, and con-
tinued to make progress in his law studies, walking one and a half miles
to perform this service after working hard all day.
In 1888 he was elected road overseer for his district. In November,
1890, he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Napa City. He filled that
offi.ce until August, 1891, and at the same time looked after his farm.
Judge Bowen Vvas in j)rivate practice at Napa until August, 1892. He
then entered and graduated from Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa,
and on returning to California located at Los Angeles, where he began
the practice of law with his brother, C. C. Bowen. In 1896 his brother
went into the ministry and Judge Bovv'en then became associated with
Judge W. F. Henning under the firm name of Bowen & Henning. In
1898 his partner retired, and James G. Scarborough became his asso-
ciate, under the name of Scarborough & Bowen. This is one of the old
and prominent law firms of Southern California.
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Mr. Bowen is trustee of the University of Southern California, is
chairman of the board of trustees of the University Methodist Church,
and is a member of Golden State Lodge of Masons, the Knights of
Pythias, the Skull & Dagger Society, che Delta Beta Tau Fraternity, the
Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Bar Association, and is a leading
Methodist layman, a republican, and served in the Los Angeles City
Council in 1901 to 1904, inclusive, being president of that body during
his last term.
August 16, 1892, at Napa, California, he married Louise A. Martin.
They have two daughters, Mary Spencer Bowen, who graduated from
the University of Southern California in 1918 and is now assistant
registrar of that institution, and Wilda Louise Bowen, who graduated
from the musical department of the University of Southern California
in 1919 and is now taking her master degree in the same institution.
Of the many civic matters with which Mr. Bowen has been con-
nected the one that stands out most prominently is his "discovery,"
"acquisition" and "development" of Agricultural, now Exposition Park.
In 1898, while leaching a large class of boys in the University Methodist
Episcopal Sunday School, he discovered that some of his class were
attending coursing matches (which consisted of chasing jack rabbits with
hounds) every Sunday after class. This brutal pastime had such a demor-
alizing efi'ect on the young men of the community that he at once resolved
to put an end to it. He had Col. F. D. Black, the promoter, arrested,
secured a conviction, the case was appealed to the Superior Court, and
finally on October 19, 1899, Judge B. M. Smith rendered a decision
upholding the lower court, and sounding the death knell of this cruel
sport in Southern California. After closing up two saloons, running full
blast and in defiance of the law in the Park, he then conceived the idea
that the grounds should be beautified and improved.
He was elected to the City Council in 1900 and at once began a
campaign to raise money by private subscription to purchase the park
from its supposed owners, it being understood generally at that time
that it was private property. After raising $25,000 by private sub-
scription he visited the late Judge Slauson for assistance, and the Judge
suggested that he look into the title of the property, which he did, and
soon discovered that it was public property. He then abandoned the
idea of buying the same and proceeded to get hold of the machinery
by which suit could be prosecuted for the recovery of the property,
and finally, an August, 1904, he filed suit in the Superior Court for an
accounting and the recovery of the park.
Immediately thereafter he was attacked by one Frank W. Burnett,
an attorney, through the Municipal League, setting forth at length in a
communication to Governor Pardee, clahning that the wrong actian had
been taken, and that the property would be lost to the people by reason
of the statute of limitations, and asked him (the Governor) to place
someone in charge of the case who would carry the same to a successful
conclusion. The Governor, however, had confidence in his ability and
refused to interfere. The case was tried and Judge Waldo M. York
sustained every contention made in the lower court, and the defendants
appealed to the Supreme Court, which finally sustained Judge York on
August 8, 1908, and the title was finally quieted in the people.
While the fight was being waged in the courts, an equally interest-
ing fight was staged in the legislature at Sacramento by those who were
trying to claim the property as private property. In January, 1905,
Senate Bill 578 was introduced by Senator Savage, and A. B. No. 701
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introduced by J. A. Bliss, of Oakland, whatever may have been their
purpose, nevertheless the effect would have been to terminate the exist-
ence of the plaintiff corporation in the action for the recovery of the
property, and greatly embarrass all efforts to secure the property, which
had since 1896 been in private hands. To Assemblyman Percy King, of
Napa, and E. K. Strowhridge, of Alameda County, are due much credit
for the defeat of these bills. Again in 1907 and 1909 attempts were made
to accomplish by legislation what could not be done through the courts,
but on each occasion their efforts failed.
The title and possession having been settled, the next question was
the use and improvement of the park. He conceived the idea of inter-
esting the city, county and state, in different lines of activity, but the
whole co-ordinating in one harmonious plan for the improvement, use
and enjoyment of the park by the whole people. Under this plan the
great museum and art gallery were built, the state exposition building,
and the armor}'. The old wooden grand-stand and stables were de-
molished and new ones rebuilt ; a great athletic field was laid out, bowling
greens, tennis-courts, picnic and children's play grounds, and last, but
not least, two splendid swimming pools were constructed, which will
accommodate hundreds of men, women and children every day. Under
this joint agreement the city has charge and care of the grounds, and
improve and maintain the same.
In order to start the new work he secured private subscriptions for
$10,000, and succeeded in getting the city and county to each provide
a like amount, and out of this the new race-track and new barns were
completed.
On December 17, 1910, the corner-stones of both the museum and
exposition buildings were laid by the Masonic Grand Lodge of California
as follows : Judge Dana R. Weller, grand master ; Hon. W. D. Stephens,
deputy grand master ; Mayor George Alexander, grand senior warden ;
Hon. Lee. C. Gates, grand orator ; E. B. Spencer, grand junior warden ;
W. M. Bowen, grand treasurer ; W. T. McAllister, acting grand secre-
tary, and Dr. J- S. Thompson, grand chaplain. These grand officers
were escorted to the grounds by the Knights Templar of the Golden
West Commandery No. 43, commanded by C. L Logan, and Los Angeles
Lodge No. 9, commanded by Hon. James G. Scarborough. After sing-
ing "America" the formal ceremony of christening the park took place.
This honor fell to Mary Spencer Bowen, who, pouring Owens River
water from a gold-lined silver goblet, generously donated by the Whitley
Jewelry Company for the occasion, said.
"On this 17th day of December, in the year of our Lord,
1910, by order of the Board of Directors of the Sixth District
Agricultural Association, and in the name of the great State of
California, I christen thee 'Exposition Park.' "
Inscribed upon this cup is the following:
"Exposition Park."
"Christened December Seventeenth, Nineteen Hundred and
Ten with Owens River Water by Mary Spencer Bowen, Dedi-
cated to the Development of the Resources and Industries of the
State of California, for the Preservation of the Historic, Scien-
tific and Artistic Treasures of the Golden State."
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The Museum of History, Science and Art is managed and con-
trolled by a Board of Governors, of which Mr. Bowen is president,
under agreement with the Board of Supervisors, whereby the County
defrays all the expense. In it is housed a splendid collection of fossils
taken from the Hancock LaBrea Fields — the most wonderful collection
of its kind in the world.
A great stadium with 50,000 seating capacity at Exposition Park
has been a dream of his for many years. He has the plans drawn and
the work practically financed, and this great achievement will soon be one
more to his credit.
Judge John W. Summerfield, who occupies an enviable pos'tion
in Los Angeles legal circles, has a career that is the product of hard
work and an exceptional alertness to every opportunity. Judge Sum-
merfield has no recollection of his father, being an infant when the
latter died, and he early realized that the sure road to success was
through his own initiative and merit.
He was born at Vernon, Indiana, November 20, 1869, son of John-
son Wyatt and Catherine (McCloskey) Summerfield. His father, who
was born at Vernon, Indiana, in 1837, completed his education in old
Asburj', now DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana. He became
a lawyer in his native town, but in 1861 left his budding practice to
enter Company A of the Twelfth Indiana Infantry. He served through
three different enlistments. After the war he resumed the practice of
law and also became a newspaper editor. In 1863, during an interval in
his army experience, he was elected county clerk, and in 1867 re-elected.
In 1865 he took over the Vernon Banner, and was its owner and editor,
in addition to carrying on a law piactice, until his death, in 1870.
When John W. Summerfield was five years old his mother took
him to Wellington, Kansas, where he received his first advantages in
the public schools. In 1881 he went to Boise City, Idaho, in 1882 to
Ogden, Utah, and in 1883 came to Los Angeles to live with his uncle,
William S. Vawter, at Santa Monica, where he finished his education
in the local schools in 1887, and had his first business experience as
bookkeeper and cashier in his uncle's office, the Santa Monica Lumber
and Mill Company. In 1890 his uncle was appointed postmaster of
Santa Monica by President Benjamin Harrison, and Judge Summerfield
for several years filled the office of assistant postmaster. He took up
the study of shorthand and in 1895 was a student of the Longley Short-
hand School, and having perfected his knowledge of that art, he was
appointed official shorthand reporter to the countv coroner in the fall
of 1895. In 1898 he became official stenographer to James C. Reeves,
district attorney. He was also a diligent student of law in the night
classes of the University of Southern California Law School, and in
1901, having been admitted to practice, he formed a partnership with
Benjamin S. Hunter under the name Hunter & Summerfield. Their
associations continued three years. Judge Summerfield then became
shorthand reporter to the county coroner and in 1906 was appointed
justice of the peace. He has been re-elected to this office in 1910, 1914
and 1918, and for over twelve years has held court in the County Build-
ing at Los Angeles.
Judge Summerfield is a popular member of the Masonic Order, the
Eastern Star, the Elks, the Eagles, the Independent Order of Foresters,
Woodmen of the World, Union League, and in politics is a republican.
500 LOS ANGELES
E. H. Bagby is an old resident of Southern California, and for many
years was prominent in the newspaper held on the Pacific Coast, espe-
cially in building up and developing the chain of newspapers comprised
in the Scripps service in this section of the country.
He was born in Schuyler County, Illinois, October 23, 1871, son of
John Courts and Mary Agnes (Scripps) Bagby. His grandfather, George
Henry Scripps, settled in Schuyler County, Illinois, in the early thirties,
on land given him by the government for his services in the Black Hawk
Indian wars.
Mr. Bagby was educated in the public schools of Rushville, Illinois,
and in 1886 entered the law offices of his father and brother. His father
at that time was on the bench in Illinois, and had previously represented
the Eleventh Illinois District in Congress. Mr. Bagby came to Cali-
fornia in September, 1891, locating at San Diego, where he joined the
staff of the Union as a reporter. In June, 1892, he became city editor
of the Sun, which had just been acquired by his cousin, Mr. E. W.
Scripps, the first of the Scripps enterprises on the Pacific Coast. In
1893 Mr. Bagby went to Chicago, accompanying Mr. Scripps, in a private
car, for the opening of the World's Fair. From there he went to Cin-
cinnati and became a reporter on the Post for a year. Returning to
San Diego, he took the business management of the San Diego Sun.
In 1895 Mr. Bagby, in association with Mr. Scripps, bought the
Los Angeles Record, and continued both papers until 1898, after which
he gave all his time to the Record. In 1899 he assisted in starting the
Scripps papers in the Northwest, the first of which was the Star at
Seattle. Eventually the service was extended until it comprised twelve
other papers in different cities, all being operated under Mr. Bagby's
superintendency until 1909.
In 1909, on account of ill health, he retired from the active manage-
ment, but is still a stockholder and director in the Scripps organization.
He devoted considerable time to the development of some large citrus
acreages, in which he was largely interested, as well as subdivision
properties in Los Angeles City.
Mr. Bagby is one of the pioneer golfers of Southern California, and
is secretary and treasurer of the Southern California Golf Association.
He has won many cups and other trophies. He was one of the directors
of the San Diego Country Club in 1896, and since 1898 has been a mem-
ber of the Los Angeles Country Club. He is a member of the Jonathan
Club in Los Angeles, and served as a director as early as 1898-99.
Many times Mr. Bagby has been a member of different committees
of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, including the chairmanship
of the Entertainment Committee In June, 1918, he succeeded George
J. Dennis as member of the Selective Service, Local Board Division No.
17, of Los Angeles.
In August, 1918, through Mr. Bagby's energies, the Chamber of
Commerce created a Replacement Bureau for ex-service men in the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce. This branch of service was conducted
under his direction until the creation of the larger body known as the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Replacement Bureau, which was brought into
existence through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce, the mayor
of Los Angeles, the State Council of Defense, and all the war activities
of Los Angeles City. This bureau also, under Mr. Bagby's direction,
cared for all the information needs of the soldiers and sailors, and co-
ordinated its efforts with all the activities so that every possible care
was given to returned service men. During the period of its official
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existence, at 226 South Broadway, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Replace-
ment Bureau filled over 15,000 jobs, took care of 7,000 cases of allot-
ments and allowances, handled several millions of lapsed insurance, and
converted about two million dollars worth of war risk insurance into
permanent policies.
Mr. Bagby is affiliated with the York and Scottish Rite Masons,
is a life member of the Shrine, belongs to the Ellis and in politics is
independent.
Rev. Leo G. Garsse is pastor of St. John's Catholic parish at Hyde
Park. This parish was established by Father Emil Gerardi, who said
the first Mass in the school house, May 3, 1908. May 10th of that year
the Catholic Building Association of Hyde Park was organized for the
purpose of erecting a church edifice. It was built in 1909, and was dedi-
cated by the late Bishop Conaty in January, 1910. Father Gerardi
remained as pastor until 1911, when he was succeeded by Father
Gregory Ash, and he in turn in 1912 by Father John Benson. From
1913 to May 1, 1918, Father Jerry Burke was pas'tor.
Father Garsse entered upon his duties as successor to Father Burke,
and has already won the admiration and affection of all members of
the parish. There are a hundred families in the parish. Father Garsse
is also pastor of St. John the Baptist church at Inglewood, comprising
seventy-five families, and St. John's church at Hawthorne, also a com-
munity of seventy-five families.
Father Garsse is a native Belgian. He was born in Hamme, Flanders,
near Antwerp, February 6, 1881, son of Bernard and Sabina (Van
Hoey) Garsse. His father, a native of the same locality, was a ship
builder. He died in 1904, and his plant is still operated by his two sons
John and Francis. There were seven children altogether.
Leo G. Garsse was educated in the parochial schools to the age of
thirteen, attended the College of the Blessed Virgin at Termonde, Bel-
gium, where he graduated in 1903, and for one year was student of
philosophy in Petit Seminary at St. Nicholas, Belgium. His theological
course was taken at the famous university city of Louvain, in the Ameri-
can College, where he remained three years. He was ordained a priest
by Bishop Maas, July 16, 1907, and immediately came to America. The
following year he spent in the Catholic University at Washington, D. C,
and was then sent to the Pacific coast as assistant pastor of Our Lady
of Sorrows church at Santa Barbara. Five months later he was trans-
ferred to Bakersfield as assistant pastor of St. Francis church, where
he remained two years, was assistant pastor of the Santa Clara church
at Oxnard three years, and just before taking up his duties at Hyde
Park was pastor of St. Francis church at Imperial and St. Joseph's
church at Holtville. Father Garsse is a member of the Knights of
Columbus and of the Catholic Order of Foresters.
Benjamin F. Groves, who recently entered upon his duties as
registrar of the United States Land Office at Los Angeles, has been a
resident of the Pacific Coast for thirty years, and has a wide and varied
experience in civil engineering, building and contracting, mining and
other afl'airs.
He was bom in Champaign County, Ohio, August 2, 1860, a son
of George and Clara (Marquess) Groves. His parents were both
natives of Virginia. His early life is accounted for briefly by school
attendance to the age of fourteen, and after that farm labor until he
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was eighteen. He then went out to Dixon County, Nebraska, a frontier
locality, farmed there for himself a year, and then returned to Adair
County, Iowa, where he farmed two years. He also served a two-year
enlistment with Troop F of the Sixth Cavalry. After that he was an
employe for others in Adair County until 1887, when he came to Cali-
fornia.
Mr. Groves' first experience in California was as a transitman at
San Diego under Henry L. Ryan, county surveyor. While at San Diego
he drove the first stakes for the Coronado Hotel and the Sweetwater
Dam. In 1889 Mr. Groves went to San Francisco and found employ-
ment in the United States Geodetic Survey under W. Hammond Hall,
assistant hydrographer. In 1891 he came to Los Angeles and was actively
engaged in the contracting and building business here until 1897. About
that time the discovery of gold in the Klondike of Alaska attracted him
to the far Northwest, and he was a miner and prospector in that country
for several years. In 1903, having returiied to Los Angeles, he resumed
the contracting busmess, in 1905 sold out and concentrated his attention
on real estate. Mr. Groves practically retired from business in 1914,
and ha.'= since busied hmiself with private affairs and politics. He served
as secretary of the Democratic County Central Committee, and on May
14, 1918, was appointed register of the United States Land Office by
President Wilson. His appointment was recommended by Secretary
Lane of the Interior Department, and his appointment was readily con-
firmed by the United States Senate.
September 9, 1887, at San Francisco, Mr. Groves married Anna
Howard. They have three sons : Francis R., born in 1890, is an engineer
with the Southern Pacific Railway; Edmund C, born in 1892, was divi-
sion deputy in the Internal Revenue Office at Los Angeles, but now, with
his brother, F. R., is an income tax expert; and Ralph H., born in 1895,
is locomotive fireman with the Southern Pacific Railway.
Herbert A. Payne is county auditor of Los Angeles County. He
has been an auditor, expert accountant and efficiency expert with some
of the largest corporations in the country, and a better qualified man
for his present position it would be difficult to find.
Mr. Payne was born in Vernon County, Missouri, November 15,
1879, a son of John A. and Elizabeth (Van Swearingen) Payne. After
graduating from the local high school in 1896, he went to Rich Hill,
Missouri, and was connected with the real estate brokerage and mining
firm for several years. In 1900, at the age of twenty-one, he became
confidential clerk to the auditor of Swift & Company, packers, at Kansas
City. In 1902 he went with one of the large packing houses of that
time, Schwartzchild & Sulzberger, whose business was recently acquired
by the Wilson & Company. At Kansas City, and later at Chicago, he
was confidential clerk to the general superintendent until 1906. He
then became assistant auditor with Sears, Roebuck & Company, Chicago,
but left that house in January, 1913, and came to Los Angeles to form
the partnership of Browning, Payne & Company, paint manufacturers.
Mr. Payne sold his interests in this factory in 1914 and accepted the
appointment of research accountant of the City Efficiency Department
of Los Angeles. In December, 1917, he became director of that depart-
ment, and on June 1, 1918, was appointed county auditor by the County
Board of Supervisors to succeed Walter A. Lewis.
Mr. Payne is a repubhcan. At Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 29,
1907, he married Miss Mary Louise Browning.
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James Robert Townsend. While his connection with the bar of
Southern California dates back as early as 1882, the interest attaching
to the career of James Robert Townsend is not merely that of length
of service. He has appeared conspicuously in many public and private
causes, has been in local politics to some extent, and as a registered
attorney of the United States Patent Office has handled many of the
most important patents and copyright interests originating in this sec-
tion of the country.
Mr. Townsend was born at Staunton, Clay County, Indiana, Septem-
ber 21, 1858, son of James McGready and Julia (Somers) Townsend.
Few Los Angeles citizens have a longer and sturdier line of American
ancestry than Mr. Townsend. His family history goes back to Richard
de Hauteville, who went to England with William the Conqueror and
there took the name of Townsend from a castle on a hill at the end of
a town in Norfolk county. The American history of the family begins
with Richard Townsend who landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1620.
-Sixteen years later in 1636, John, Richard and Thomas (or Henry)
Townsend landed at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and proceeded south
to Jamaica, Long Island, while Richard probably went on to Snowhill,
Maryland.
James Townsend, grandfather of the Los Angeles lawyer, was a
son of Major Townsend. In 1810 he removed from Snowhill, Maryland,
to Union County, Kentucky, being . accompanied by his wife, Catherine
Davis. In 1832 he left Kentucky and moved to Indiana, where he freed
his slaves. He had distinction of being one of the founders and the man
who laid out the town of Greencastle, Indiana. James McGready Town-
send was bom at Morganfield in Union County, Kentucky, February 21,
1820, his wife Julia Somers was born near Barnet, Vermont, in 1825,
daughter of Robert Somers, who emigrated from Vermont to Indiana in
1838.
James R. Townsend attended the public schools of Indiana until
1878, and in the preceding year had acted as weigh-boss at a coal mine.
He was a school teacher iii 1878-79 and 1880-81, and through all his
active career has maintained a deep interest in educational progress. A
few years ago he graduated under Dr. Maria Montessori in the be-
ginner's and elementary courses of Montessori Training. He has the
distinction of being the first American male graduate of this famous
method of child training. In the intervals of his early work as a teacher
he spent sixteen months at Albia, Iowa, studying law with his uncle,
John S. Townsend. Upon being admitted to the bar he returned to
his native county in Indiana, and at Brazil began practice with the
firm of Coflfee & Carter. He was getting his first training in the law
at the same time he was teaching school.
Mr. Townsend came to Lugonia, California, in 1881 with his par-
ents, his sister, now Mrs. Sarah Catherine Townsend Gee, and his broth
ers Alfred I. and Francis M. at the time Judson and Brown were plot-
ting the colony of Redlands. Mr. Townsend's first employment was
carrying chain and driving stakes in laying out that colony. Mav 17,
1882, he removed to Los Angeles and engaged in the practice of law,
acting as clerk in the office of Henry T. Hazard, then city attorney. Mr.
Townsend was admitted to the bar by the late Judge Ygnacio Sepul-
veda. In 1882 he began practice as a patent attorney and has ever since
specialized in that branch of the law. The firm of Hazard & Townsend
had their office in the old Downey Block until 1896, at which time Mr.
Hazard withdrew and Mr. Townsend formed partnership with his broth-
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ers Alfred L and Francis M. under the name Townsend Brothers.
In 1897 they removed from the Downey Block to the Potomac Block,
and in 1902 removed to the Bradbury Building. Alfred T. Townsend
died by accident in 1898 and in 1905 the other brothers dissolved part-
nership. Since then James R. Townsend has practiced alone. His
offices now are in the San Fernando Building.
Mr. Townsend is a man of positive character, has always been a
student, and has adapted himself to the changing circumstances and
currents of both religious and political life. He was brought up a
republican, became a prohibitionist in 1883 and on that ticket was a
candidate for the City Council of Los Angeles in that year. In 1884
he CDSt his first vote for president, supporting John P. St. John as
prohibition candidate. In 1887 he was converted to the socialistic pro-
gram, aid has supported evrry socialist ticket since then excent in
1916 when he voted for Mr. Wilson. In 1912 he was socialist candidate
in Los Angeles, for state senator, and received three thousand votes.
While not a member of any church Mr. Townsend was reared a
Methodist, later became a Congregationalist, and since June, 1889, has
accepted and adhered to the doctrines of the Christian Science faith.
On February 21, 1906, at Los Angeles, Mr. Townsend married M.
Beulah Peauchette, daughter of Alonzo Peuchette. Mrs. Townsend,
who shares with her husband many of his intellectual as well as domestic
interests, was born in Kansas, May 1, 1882, was educated in Denver,
was a kindergarten teacher, is a graduate of and has taught in a busi-
ness college, and in 1915-16 completed the work of the beginners and
elementary courses of the Montessori Child Training under Dr. Maria
Montessori. She now conducts a small Montessori School at 2347
Ocean View Avenue in Los Angeles, for the benefit of their youngest
child. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend have three children: Juliana, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1910, a student in 1919 of the Virgil Intermediate public school;
James Robert, Jr., born October 12, 1912, a student before his seventh
birthday in the A3 grade in Lockwood Street public school, and Marie
Belle, born May 3, 1917, and a student in her mother's school from the
age of three months. Juliana in her ninth is publishing a book of poems
and prose written by her in 1919.
William B. Mathews, a special counsel for the municipal govern-
ment of Los Angeles, is one of the older members of the bar still in
active work, and has practiced in Southern California for a period of
thirty years.
He came to California from Kentucky, where he was reared and
educated and admitted to the bar. He was born on a farm near George-
town, in Brown County, Ohio, March 1, 1865, and the following year his
parents, William B. and Margaret (Salisbury) Mathews, moved to
Mason County, Kentucky. In that section of the Blue Grass state Wil-
liam B. Mathews grew up, was educated in the' district, private and
high schools, and in 1882 attended Center College, at Danville, Ken-
tucky. He received his A. B. degree from that institution in 1885, and
then diligently pursued the study of law with W. H. Wadworth at Mays-
ville, Kentucky. After being admitted to the bar in 1888, he took ad-
vanced w^ork in the Columbia Law College, in New York City, for a
year, and at once came across the continent to Los Angeles. Here for
two years he was partner with LeCompte Davis under the name Davis &
Mathews. He was then associated with Thomas J. Carran until the
death of Mr. Carran, two years later. His longest association has been
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with Walter Bordwell. They had a profitable and congenial partner-
ship until January, 1901, when Mr. Mathews was elected city attorney.
He held that office until January, 1907, and since then has served the
municipal government as special counsel on city water and power. Since
1914 he has resumed his private law partnership with Walter Bordwell
under the name Bordwell & Mathews.
Mr. Mathews has given freely of his time and abilities to the com-
munity and was a director of the Los Angeles Library Board from
1899 to 1901. He is a Mason, a member of the California Club, City
Club, Presbyterian Church and is a progressive republican.
January 1, 1891, he married, at Maysville, Kentucky, Susan Avery
Hays. They are the parents of five children. Margaret Barbour is a
kindergarten director in the Los Angeles schools. John Hays, born in
1893, was recently discharged from Camp Jackson with the rank of
second lieutenant and has since resumed his studies in the senior class at
the University of California. William Wadsworth was born in 1895,
has received his discharge as a first lieutenant at Camp Grant and is now
a junior in the University of California. Samuel Salisbury, born in
1897, was attending Stanford University when he enlisted in the Naval
Coast Defense Reserve at San Francisco. He was not yet of age. After-
wards he learned that his chances for getting to France were slim, and
he transferred to Naval Base Hospital No. 3 as a second-class seaman.
Under that classification he was stationed at Leith, Scotland, and a
short time later was sent to the front in France and remained there until
he received his discharge, in February, 1919. He has since resumed
special work in the University of Southern California. The youngest
child, Caroline Kinard, is a student in the Los Angeles public schools.
Russell Henry Ballai^d. As all the big achievements and de-
velopments in the electrical industry, apart from the first experiments
and inventions, might be comprised in a survey of four decades, it is
possible to call Russell Henry Ballard, with his thirty years of con-
tinuous association with the electrical business, one of the oldest men
in the business today, though in years he has hardly reached life's prime.
Mr. Ballard, who is first vice president of the Southern California
Edison Company, the history of which organization is given on other
pages of this publication, was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July
26. 1875. His parents were Walter John and Harriet A. Ballard, both
deceased. His father was a native of London, England, and lived in the
United States more than thirty-five years. His mother was a native of
Toronto. Russell Henry Ballard acquired a grammar and high school
education at Hamilton, Ontario ; Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Evanston,
Illinois. He was fifteen years old when, in 1890, he began as an office
boy with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Chicago. Con-
tinuously since that date he has had som.e associations with electric com-
panies. His business associations have been almost national in extent,
having been a factor in such industries at Chicago, Schenectady, New
York ; Atlanta, Georgia ; Butte, Montana, and Los Angeles. For the
year 1919-20 Mr. Ballard was president of the National Electric Light
Association. He is a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia,'
the greatest scientific body in the world.
During the war he was director of the precinct organization of Los
Angeles in the Liberty Loan campaigns. He is a republican, is affiliated
with West Lake Lodge of Masons, the Scottish Rite bodies and the
Golden West Commandery, also the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of
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the California Club, Sunset Club, City Club of Los Angeles, Rocky
Mountain Club of New York.
February 9, 1901, Mr. Ballard married May Spurgeon, daughter of
Granville Spurgeon. Her father and her uncle, W. H. Spurgeon, were
the founders of the town of Santa Ana, California. Mr. and Mrs.
Ballard have one daughter, Harriet Russell Ballard, now a student at
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Hon. Henry Zenas Osborne. If Los Angeles had carefully sought
to elect to Congress a man chosen in exact conformity with the ideal
theory of representative government, a choice could hardly have been
better made than when Henry Zenas Osborne was given the honor of
representing the Tenth California District in the Sixty-fifth Congress.
Mr. Osborne has been a resident of California forty years, and
thirty-five of these years have been spent in Los Angeles. He began
life as a printer and also as a Union soldier, has been reporter, editor and
newspaper publisher, and has been as completely identified with the
life and affairs of Southern California as any other man.
He was bom in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York,
October 4, 1848, son of Rev. Zenas and Juliette (Bristol) Osborne. His
early education in public schools continued to the age of thirteen. Dur-
ing the early years of the Civil war he was working as an apprentice at
a printer's case. At sixteen he enlisted as a private in Company E of
the 192nd New York Volunteer Infantry, going in February 23, 1865,
and receiving his honorable discharge on the 28th of August in the
same year. Following the war he worked as a printer in New York,
Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans and Austin, Texas, and from 1873
to 1878 was a reporter and newspaper correspondent at New Orleans.
At the age of twenty-four in 1873 he was president of the New Orleans
Typographical Union, and was first vice president of the International
Typographical Union. In 1876 he was New Orleans correspondent
for the Chicago Tribune.
On coming to California in 1878 he took up his residence in the
live gold mining camp at Bodie, where for six years, from 1878 to 1884,
he was editor and publisher of the Bodie Daily Free Press. Mr. Os-
borne came to Los Angeles in 1884, at which time the city had a popula-
tion of fifteen thousand people. Not a phase of its growth and develop-
ment since then has escaped his co-operative interest. For thirteen years
from 1884 to 1897 he was editor and publisher of the Los Angeles
Evening Express. He was engaged in gold mining several years in Cali-
fornia and developed the celebrated Dorleska Gold Mine in Trinity
County.
Mr. Osborne participated in organizing and conducting many of the
civic, social and commercial organizations of the city, among them the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, one of the leading commercial
organizations of the United States, and of which he was a charter mem-
ber in 1888. He served as president of the Chamber in 1912 and for
six years was a director. He was a charter member of the Chamber
of Mines and Oil in 1907. He was president of the Southern Cali-
fornia Editorial Association in 1889, and vice president of the Cali-
fornia Press Association in 1888. For more than thirty years he has
served in some official position in the Grand Army of the Republic and
was senior vice commander in chief in 1912-13. He is a member of
the California Society, Sons of the Revolution, and for six years was
captain of the California National Guards, from 1889 to 1895, when he
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retired. In Masonry Mr. Osborne is the senior living past master
of Southern California Lodge No. 278 ; senior living past commander of
Los Angeles Commandery No. 9 Knights Templar, and a charter mem-
ber of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a charter mem-
ber of the California and Sunset Clubs, and was president of the latter
in 1905.
He has held many official positions and responsibilities in California.
He was Receiver of Public Moneys in the Bodie Land District from
1878 to 1884; United States Collector of Customs of the Los Angeles
District from 1891 to 1894; United States Marshal of the Los Angeles
District from 1898 to 1906. During 1914-16 he was a Commissioner of
the Board of Public Works of Los Angeles. He has been prominent in
the republican party for over thirty years. He served as a delegate to
the National Convention in 1888, and except for two years was a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of the Republican State Central Com-
mittee from 1890 to 1900. Mr. Osborne was republican nominee for
Congress in 1914, and in 1916 he was elected to represent the 10th
district, receiving 63,913 votes, giving him a majority of 30,688 over
his democratic opponent.
Mr. Osborne entered Congress immediately before the declaration
of the state of vv^ar with Germany, and his first vote was cast in favor
of that declaration, on April 5, 1917. Throughout the war he voted for
every measure presented to Congress intended to sustain the hands of
President Wilson and the administration in fonvarding the American
cause and the winning of the war, including the selective draft act,
the Overman act, and the various bonding and supply bills, with entire
disregard of partisan considerations. In recognition of this service,
notwithstanding his well known republican party affiliations in times of
peace, and with an express waiving of any political obligation, he was
with unanimity made the democratic as well as the republican nominee,
and of the prohibitionists as well, and re-elected by the largest vote and
the largest majority cast for any member of the Sixty-sixth Congress
in any district of the United States — being 72,77i to 9,725 for the social-
ist nominee, a majority of 63,048.
At Cazenovia, New York, December 11, 1872, he married Helen
Annas. They are the parents of five children, four sons and one
daughter: Sherrill B. an attorney; Henry Z., Jr., chief engineer of the
Board of Public Utilities of Los Angeles ; Clarence B., a consulting geol-
ogist; Raymond G., a testing engineer; and Edith, who married Samuel
S. Stahl, of Sacramento, a highway engineer.
Osc.\R M. Morris is president of the Morris & Snow Seed Company
of Los Angeles, one of the principal houses in the Southwest making a
specialty of fancy strains of seed for the garden and private estates and
everything for the garden and the domestic market. Mr. Morris has
had almost a lifelong experience in this business, having grown up as a
boy among his father's trees and fields in San Bernardino.
He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 5, 1863, a son of J. M.
and Helen A. (Millson) Morris. His father was bom just across the
street in Cincinnati. The mother was a native of Baltimore, Maryland.
They were married in Cincinnati. J. M. Morris was a Kansas pioneer
at the time of the Free State movement. He was injured during that
period of hostilities. He was a contractor and builder, and he and a
half-brother erected a part of old Fort Riley in Kansas. In 1875 he
brought his family to California, locating in San Bernardino. About
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1900 he moved to Inglewood, and about six years before his death, which
occurred at Los Angeles in April, 1914, moved to this city.' The mother
died at Los Angeles in April, 1912. Before her death they had celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary. The father was nearly ninety, and
the mother eighty-three years of age, when they died. J. M. Morris
had a sub-contract for the mason work on the old San Bernardino Court
House. He also filled the office of justice of the peace there four or
five terms.
Oscar M. Morris came to San Bernardino with his parents on
July 1, 1875. He continued to attend school at San Bernardino and also
spent one year m the Sturges Business College there. At the age of
eighteen he may be said to have started his career as a nurseryman.
His father had a large orchard and in it Mr. Morris served his appren-
ticeship in the nursery and seed business. At the age of twenty he
was a nurseryman on his own account, and for seven years had his
headquarters at Rialto and San Bernardino. In 1895 he moved to
Los Angeles. At Rialto for about two years he was associated with
M. C. Snow, his present partner. He bought out the interest of his
partner and later, coming to Los yVngeles, for several years was asso-
ciated with the Germain Seed and Plant Company, and later also traveled
for the Vaughn Seed Company of Chicago. The Morris & Snow Seed
Company was organized in 1906, and in 1908 was incorporated. This
is a close corporation with only three members, Mr. Morris being pres-
ident, D. F. Reichard vice president, and M. C. Snow secretary-treasurer.
The main business offices and store are at 439 South Main Street, while
the nursery is located at the corner of South Figueroa and Jefferson
Streets, and is under the immediate supervision of Mr. Morris' son,
Albert B. Morris. The business is conducted both wholesale and retail.
They make a specialty of supplying private estates on the Pacific Coast
with seeds, bulbs, flowers and everything required by the landscape,
flower and vegetable gardener. ,
During his residence at San Bernardino Mr. Morris served several
years as a member of the National Guard, Company E, being commis-
sary sergeant. He is a republican in politics, is a member of the Rotary
Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manu-
facturers Association.
At San Bernardino, August 6, 1888, he married jNIiss Mae A. Bud-
dington. Mrs. Morris was b9rn at Pontiac, Michigan, and was reared
and educated there, being a daughter of Charles O. and Mary (Burwick)
Buddington, who came to California from Michigan in 1886 and settled
at San Bernardino. Mrs. Buddington now lives with her daughter at
Pasadena. Mr. Buddmgton, who died at Los Angeles in April, 1919,
was for a number of years a newspaper man, and after coming to Cali-
fornia was connected with the San Bernardino Sun and San Bernardino
Index. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have three sons and three daughters, the
three oldest born in San Bernardino, and the three youngest in Los
Angeles. Alma C, the oldest child, takes an active part in the business
of her father; Albert B. has been mentioned as having personal charge
of the nurseries; Oscar Milton, an employe of the firm Howland &
Dewey, died in October, 1918: Theodore J., who enlisted early in the
war, was in the aviation service with the Five Hundred Five Aerial
Squadron and was in nearly every aviation camp in this country, but
did not get across, and since his discharge has returned to his former
position in his father's business ; May also assists her father in the
store ; and Myrtle is in her senior year in the Manual Arts High School.
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The only one of the children married is the oldest son. His wife was
Miss Gladys Cruickshank of Los Angeles, daughter of Gordon Cruick-
shank, proprietor of the Eastern Produce Company of Los Angeles.
Albert B. Morris and wife have two daughters, Gladys and Lillian. Mr.
Morns and family reside in Vermont Square, 1051 West Forty- seventh
Street.
James Stark Bennett was born at Sherburne, state of New York,
on the 7th day of May, 1879, the son of George Calder and Ella J.
(Stark) Bennett. The family removed to California and settled at
Pomona in 1888, where his father died in 1901. His mother is still
living and resides at Redlands, California.
Mr. Bennett acquired his early education in the public schools of
Pomona, leaving the high school before the holidays of his senior year.
He graduated from the Preparatory School of Pomona College in 1898
and received his Bachelor's degree from the college in 1903. While
attending school he was employed by Alden & Merrill in their retail shoe
store at Pomona, and in 1900-1901 by Mr. A. S. Avery, who succeeded
to their business.
He entered the Law School of Columbia University, in New York,
in 1903, and added to his education by teaching English to foreigners in
the city night schools. In 1905 he received the Master of Arts from the
Faculty of Political Science at Columbia, and his law degree the follow-
ing year.
Mr. Bennett was admitted to the bar of New York on examination
in November, 1905, and to that of California on motion in July, 1906.
During the years of 1906-1909 he was employed by the firm of Hunsaker
& Britt, at the end of which period he formed a partnership with Mr.
E. J. Fleming, which was dissolved in 1911, when he formed a partner-
ship with Mr. Garfield R. Jones, this continuing until 1914. Since the
first of the year 1915 he has continued in general practice, with offices
in the Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, where he is a member of the
City Club, the University Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Since
his marriage he has resided at Pasadena, where he is a member of the
Cauldron Club, the Neighborhood Club, the Tournament of Roses Asso-
ciation and the Board of Trade. He is also a member of the Political
Science Club of Columbia University, of the Sierra Club, of the Los
Angeles Bar Association and the California Bar Association.'
In politics he prefers to be a consultant and has never held public
office, with the exception of filling a temporary vacancy as city attorney
at Pasadena in 1913.
October 8, 1907, Air. Bennett married Miss Ethel wynn Foote of
Pasadena, the daughter of Charles R. and Sarah (Cole) Foote, and they
have four daughters, Louise, Caroline, Constance and Margaret, and
one son, Rollin.
George Eber Pili.sbury achieved real success and eminence in a
peculiarly difficult profession. He was regarded as one of the most
competent technical engineers on the Pacific Coast for many years. He
came to Los Angeles in 1885, and ten years later became identified with
what is now the Los Angeles Railway Company, serving it as chief
engineer.
He was born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, July 26, 1857, and died
at his home, 1242 CJrange Street, in Los Angeles, August 5. 1919, at the
age of sixty-two. His father was George Pillsbury, a deacon of the
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Congregational church and at one time widely known throughout New
England for his prominence as a temperance worker. In those years a
vote on the temperance ticket was considered a vote thrown away, but
in spite of that handicap he lost an election to the State Legislature by
very few ballots, his support being a tribute to his known personal integ-
rity and popularity. This George Pillsbury was a grandson of General
Moody Adams Pillsbury, and a nephew of General John A. Dix, and
further back was descended from one of three notable brothers who
arrived at Newburj-port, Massachusetts, from England in colonial times,
each of whom became prominent in civil, religious, business, professional
and political life. All settled in New England and married into some
of New England's best families. At that time and for long afterward
the life of a farmer's wife was one of drudgery and privation. One of
the Mrs. Pillsburys organized the women of her community into a sew-
ing club. She herself went to Boston and made arrangements with
tailors of that city to send out work to be done by hand. When the
work came she parceled it out among the women of the club, and when
it was finished she returned it to Boston. In that way she earned the
money which educated her sons. These sons invented the roller pro-
cess of making flour and established the great industry that bears the
Pillsbury name at Minneapolis.
George Eber Pillsbury received his early education in the public
schools, and later attended Lawrence Academy, at Groton, Massachu-
setts, where, in later years, two of the Roosevelt boys received their
preparation for college. While at Lawrence Academy one of his pro-
fessors discovered his wonderful gift for mathematics and did all in his
power to develop that talent, and they became lifelong friends. In 1880
Mr. Pillsbury became division engineer of the Mexican Central Railway
Company in Mexico. He continued with the Mexican Central until he
was twenty-seven years of age.
On October 15, 1885, he married and brought his bride at once to
Los Angeles. For a period of about eight months he was in the office
of the county surveyor, and then formed a partnership with George C.
Cleveland, a fellow engineer. Cleveland had built one section of the
Mexican Central Railroad. This firm enjoyed a good practice, and Mr.
Pillsbury built up recognition as a consulting engineer which made him
known far and wide. During the depression following the boom in Los
Angeles he went north to build an extension to the Santa Fe from Bar-
stow to Bakersfield. This was never completed, as the man at the head
of the enterprise was killed in a railroad accident in Pennsylvania and
the bonds for construction had not been placed. On returning to Los
Angeles he was employed by the Southern Pacific in the engineering
department. While there he was oflfered a salary of ten thousand dollars
per year to develop water power for a gold mine in Lower California.
He was assured that experts had gone over the ground and reported that
water could be developed. He went down to Lower California, ahead
of his family, and a complete examination showed him the utter im-
possibility of developing water, consequently he returned to Los Angeles
and again engaged in business with Mr. Cleveland. At that time business
in general was dull and he accepted the post of assistant engineer in the
development of the Gila Bend Reservoir and Canal Company in Arizona.
He was engaged in that work some two or three years. Upon returning
to California, he undertook the survey of the Jurupa Ranch, near River-
side. This survey, which cost the firm of Pillsbury & Cleveland con-
siderable time, money and labor, since they had a large force of men
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and equipment engaged in the work, came to an abrupt conclusion. The
entire party, coming back to spend Thanksgiving with their famiHes,
stopped at a camp meeting. The survey of the Jurupa Ranch was con-
tracted for by a preacher, and he was the speaker at the camp meeting.
During his discourse he said to his congregation that, if he owed a large
sum of money and could not pay it, it would not worry him, as he would
trust in the Lord to pay it. So the survey ended abruptly.
At that time the business of the firm was increasing and Mr. Pills-
bury was engaged in constant practice as a consulting civil and hydraulic
engineer. He made the survey of Catalina Island in 1889 for George
R. Shatto. He also built the old Second Street Road, the Ostrich Farm
Railroad and a number of local short lines which have been absorbed or
have been discontinued.
In order that his professional services might be so far as possible
concentrated and allow him to remain at home with his family, Mr.
Pillsbury became assistant engineer of the Los Angeles Railway in 1895,
and within a few months was promoted to chief engineer. He also
became chief engineer of the Los Angeles & Interurban Railway. In
1902, at the formation of the Pacific Electric Company, lie was retained
as chief engineer, and held that office until the time of his death. He
had suffered a severe nervous breakdown in 1910, still another in 1913,
and for several years had been more or less of an invalid.
Mr. Pillsbury, who is survived by Mrs. Pillsbury, a son, George E.
Pillsbur}', Jr., and a daughter, Mrs, Robert C. Du Soe, was well known
outside of professional circles. In 1905 he was appointed a member of
Governor Pardee's stafT and filled that office during the Governor's term,
when he resigned, but was reappointed by Governor Gillett. He was
one of the founders and a director of the San Gabriel Country Club,
was a director of the Jonathan Club, and a member of the Covina
Country Club. He belonged to many orders in Masonry, including the
Knights Templar, and attained the Thirty-second Degree in the Scottish
Rite. He was also a member of the Alamitos Gun Club, was president
of the Surf Gun Club, a member of the Cataline Tuna Club, the Union
League Club of San Francisco, and the Engineers' and Architects' Asso-
ciation of America.
He was affiliated with the social insurance orders. The Maccabees
and the Independent Order of Foresters. He was liberal in religious
views and for many years a regular attendant at the Unitarian Church,
whose pastor, Rev. E. S. Hodgin, supplemented the Masonic Rites in
the funeral services, which were held in the Masonic Temple, and whose
choir, assisted by the church organist, impressively rendered his best
loved hymns.
Of the many tributes paid his memory, probably the best are those
expressed by Mr. Paul Shoup, the head of the Pacific Electric Company,
who, in a telegram to Mrs. Pillsbury, said : "He was a capable, patient,
lovable man, for whom I personally, as well as professionally, had great
affection — a man of many friends, universally known for his great
patience and perseverance." In the Pacific Electric Magazine Mr. Shoup
also paid a tribute to Mr. Pillsbury in the following words : "The death
of Colonel Pillsbury marks the passing of one of the pioneers m the
work of Pacific Electric construction. From the very inception of the
road he was one of its officers, and to his ability, faithful service, unfail-
ing patience and great capacity for making friends is due, in a very con-
siderable part, the creation of this system as it is now. His illness during
the last few years had kept him from active work. But his death comes
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as a shock, nevertheless, to all those who have been long in the service.
-Outside of the service he had a large circle of friends, who, with us, will
miss him greatly."
Robert Nelson Bulla came to Los Angeles in 1883, and has long
enjoyed high rank as a lawyer, business man and leader in public affairs.
He was born at Richmond, Indiana, September 8, 1852, son of
Hiram and Elizabeth (Staley) Bulla. His great-grandfather, William
Bulla, was a Pennsylvanian who moved his family to North Carolina.
Thomas Bulla, grandfather of the Los Angeles lawyer, left North Caro-
lina in 1806 and settled in Eastern Indiana on the land on which Hiram
Bulla was born. Hiram Bulla was a farmer.
Robert Nelson Bulla was educated in public schools and in 1876
received his Master of Arts degree from the National University of
Lebanon, Ohio. He studied law in Cincinnati and was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1881. He practiced three years in Cincinnati, and in 1883
removed to Los Angeles. He was associated with the firm of Bicknell
& White from 1883 to 1887, and until 1898 practiced with Percy R.
Wilson under the firm name of Bulla & Wilson. He gave up his general
law practice in 1901 and has since devoted his time to corporation law
and business.
Mr. Bulla was elected to the Legislature from Los Angeles County
in 1893 and 1895, and in 1897 was nominated by acclamation and elected
by a large majority to the State Senate. While in the Legislature he
introduced a delinquent tax law providing that in cases where real
property is sold for non-payment of taxes, the state shall become the
purchaser, permitting redemption at actual cost, with reasonable penal-
ties. The law was passed by both houses in 1893, but vetoed by Gov-
ernor Markham. The following session it was again passed and signed.
Mr. Bulla in 1895 was appointed a member of the commission to inves-
tigate and report upon the Torrens Land Transfer System of Australia.
At the next session of the Legislature he submitted a bill which became
a law adopting that system in a modified form in the State of California.
He was also a member of the commission to codify the laws of Cali-
fornia in 1898-99.
In 1895 Mr. Bulla organized the Central Oil Company of Los
Angeles, and for many years has served as its secretary and manager.
He is secretary of the East Whittier Oil Company, a director of the
Security National Bank, the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association, and
a member of the advisory board of the Bank of Italy. He was first vice
president of the Panama-California International Exposition held at San
Diego, California, in 1916. He is a member and served as president in
1915 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and is a memb?r and
was vice president of the Southwest Museum, a republican in politics, a
member of the Unitarian Church and a Mason. He belongs to the
California Club, Union League Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Sunset
Club, The Scribes' Club, Automobile Club of Southern California and
Los Angeles Country Club.
August 4, 1890, he married Miss Evangeline Sutton, who died
March 12, 1903, leaving tvvo daughters, Vivian Olive and Loris Evange-
line, both of whom were born in Los Angeles and educated here at
Ramona Convent.
Harry Landon Heffner is a prominent rancher and real estate
operator in Southern California, his chief business interest at present
being the Huntington Beach Company at Huntington Beach. He also
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handles ranch lands at Corcoran and other points in Southern CaHfornia
and much Los Angeles city property. His business headquarters are in
the Kerchoff Building.
Mr. Heffner was born at Columbus, Ohio, February 10, 1874, a son
of Robert Armstrong and Flora (Ramsey) Heffner. His father was
born at Columbus, October 22, 1842, and died at Los Angeles, December
20, 1888. His mother was born at Lancaster, Ohio, Novembei 14, 1845,
and died at Los Angeles, June 6, 1913.
Harry L. Heffner has lived in Southern California since 1882. He
attended the grammar and high schools of Los Angeles, and when six-
teen years of age, in 1890, went to work as bookkeeper for the First
National Bank. He left the bank in 1893 and for twelve years was with
the firm of Vail & Gates, in the cattle business in Arizona and California.
He was with this firm in California from 1905 to 1910. Since 1912 he
has been farming lands at Corcoran and developing the properties at
Huntington Beach.
Mr. Heffner is vice president and director of the Huntington Beach
Company, director in Golden State Woolen Mills, Lakeland Canal Com-
pany, Valley Irrigated Farms Company, Kings County Canal Company,
and general freight agent of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. He is a
member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, Orange County Country
Club, a Knight Templar and Shriner, and in politics a democrat.
At Tustin, California, March 2, 1907, he married Bartha Sanborn,
a daughter of Rufus Howard and Edith (Hyatt) Sanborn, Her father,
a former Chicago business man, is now living at San Gabriel, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Heffner have four children, Robert Armstrong, Landon
Hyatt, Rufus Sanborn and Edith Ramsey.
J. Wiseman Macdonald was one of the men who identified them-
selves with Los Angeles at the beginning of its varied growth and pros-
perity. He came to this city over twenty-five years ago, and has been
one of the able lawyers commanding a large practice and identified with
many affairs of importance in the city and state.
Mr. Macdonald is of Scotch and English ancestry, and was born at
Mazomanie, Wisconsin, January 17, 1866, son of Allan and Eleanor
(Wiseman) Macdonald. His father was born in Scotland, in 1827,
and was a descendant of the famous Macdonalds, Lords of the Scotch
Highlands. The Alacdonalds allied themselves with the Stuart cause
and many of them saw active service during the Jacobite wars between
1715 and 1745. Allan Macdonald came to the LTnited States as a young
man in 1854. Locating in Wisconsin, which was just emerging from
its territorial period, he acquired large tracts of land and supervised their
operation on an extensive scale of farming. In 1861 he signalized his
devotion to his adopted country by enlisting as a first lieutenant in the
Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry, and was in many of the hardest battles
and campaigns of the war. It was as a direct result of the exposure and
hardships of military life that he died March 8, 1869.
After his death his widow returned, with her children, to her native
home in England, and thus it was that James \^'iseman Macdonald
grew up in England and received his education there. He attended the
Grant School, conducted by one of the best known English educators,
W. M. Grant, at Burnley, Lancashire. He lived in England until the
death of his mother, when he came to California and located in Los
Angeles in 1891. In 1892 Mr. Macdonald was admitted to the bar
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before the Supreme Court of California. He is a director of the Hiber-
nian Savings Bank of Los Angeles, and has served two terms, as trustee
of the Los Angeles Bar Association and was formerly lecturer on cor-
])orations for the University of Southern California. He is president
of the Civil Service Commisson of Los Angeles. Mr. Macdonald is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and the California Club.
June 23, 1902, at San Francisco, he married Miss Jane Boland.
They have three children: Allan, who was born in 1905: Elinor Wise-
man, born in 1906, and J. Wiseman Jr.; born in 1909.
Guy Richards Crump was born and reared in old New England,
is a son of a Connecticut lawyer and judge, and since 1907 has been
practicing law in Southern California.
He was born at New London, Connecticut, April 4, 1886, a son of
John Guy Crump. His father was also a native of New London, was
a classmate of AVilliam H. Taft in Yale College, and became prominent
as a lawyer of Niew London. He served as judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas and was also an editor of the New London Day, and book
critic for the New York Sun. He died in 1894. His wife was Janet
Elizabeth Williams, and their two sons were William C. of Pasadena,
California, and Guy Richards.
The latter attended the public schools at New London and in New
York City, from thirteen to sixteen was a student in the Blackball .School
for Boys at Old Lyne, Connecticut, and then returned to New York
City and was in the law office of Samuel Park, now dean of the Ad-
miralty Bar of New York City. Mr. Crump came to Pasadena in
January, 1905, continuing his studies in the office of Hahn & Hahn. He
was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Appeals July 15, 1907,
and during the following three years engaged in the practice of his
profession. Removing to Los Angeles, he entered the legal department
of the Los Angeles Abstract and Trust Company and served in various
other departments of that corporation and its successor, the Los Angeles
Title Insurance Company, for three years. Since 1914 he has been asso-
ciated with Frank L. Muhleman in the firm of Muhleman & Crump.
Mr. Crump is a member of the California State and Los Angeles
County Bar Associations, is a republican, a member of the California
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, is master of South
Pasadena Lodge No. 367, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a member
of South Pasadena Chapter No. 112, Royal Arch Masons, and Pasadena
Lodge No. 672 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. For
seven years he has served as police judge and justice of the peace of
South Pasadena. His church membership is Presbyterian.
At South Pasadena, June 12, 1912, Judge Crump married Miss
Grace Elizabeth Baer, daughter of Joseph Silas Baer, a prominent
gynecologist and surgeon of Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. Mr.
and Mrs. Crump have one daughter, Jaqet Vida, a student in the public
schools.
JuDCE J. W.M.TER H.\NPA-. _ While his lime is now largely aJisorbeil by
his duties as presiding judge of the Justice Court of Los Angeles County,
Judge Hanby has been a successful lawyer for seventeen years and has
had a wide acquaintance and practice both in California and in Nevada.
Judge Hanby was born in Visalia, in Tulare County, July 16, 1872.
son of Jonathan Waldo and Mary Emeline (Peck) Hanby. His father
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is a well-known old-time Californian, born at Iowa City. Iowa, October
7, 1845, reared and educated there, and at the age of nineteen enlisting
in the Twenty-second Iowa Infantry for service in the Union army. He
received his honorable discharge in 1865 and at once started West, driv-
ing an ox team across the plains, fighting Indians on the way, and first
locating at White Pine, Nevada, where he engaged in farming until 1870.
In that year he completed his Western journey to California and was a
farmer in the Sacramento Valley until 1872, then moving to Visalia, in
Tulare County, where for three years he was a blacksmith. He did
similar work at ( )rland for two years, then moved his shop and business
to Rcdblufif, where he was located four years. For several years follow-
ing he lived in Los Angeles and was employed by the Second Street
Cable Line until 1888. During the next eight years he was a farmer,
and some of the land on which the beautiful suburb of Hollywood has
been built was cultivated by him in that time. In 1896 he moved to
Inyo County, where he still continues his agricultural interests. In
1870. at White Pine, Nevada, he married Mary- Emeline Peck, and they
became the parents of six children.
Judge Hanby. who considers it his good fortune to have been born
in California anci to have spent practically all the years of his life here,
was educated in the t^rammar and high schools of Los Angeles, graduat-
ing in 1889. and subsequently took a general business course and acquired
a knowledge of shorthand in the Los Angeles Business College. After
1892 he spent three years on his fathers' farm at Hollywood, then pre-
pared for teaching by a year in the Boynton Normal School, and remov-
ing to Inyo County with his parents, and after passing a successful
examination, was apjiointed a teacher in that county and served faith-
fully and competently for eight years. In the meantime he studied law
under Judge Walter A. Lamar of the Superior Court at Independence,
and White Smith, at Bishop, in Inyo County. Judge Hanby was ad-
mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California at Los Angeles in
1903 and began practice at Bishop. He was employed to handle the
legal details in incorporating Bishop as a city and was appointed the
first city attorney. He held that office two years, and until 1905 was
deputy district attorney. He then removed to Carson City, Nevada,
where, after admission to the bar by the Supreme Court, he opened an
office at Yerington. In Novem]>er, 1906, he was elected district attor-
ney of Lyon County, but in 1908 gave up his promising professional in-
terests in Nevada and. returning to Los Angeles, was busied with a
growing practice as a lawyer until 1915, v^dien he was appointed by the
county supervisors judge of the Justice (/curt. In 1918 he was elected
to that office.
Judge Hanby is a Scottish Rite M<ison and Shriner, a Knight of
Pythias, a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, the Eastern
Star Chapter, the Native Sons of the Golden West, and is a member of
the Union League Club. In politics he is a republican and religiously
leans toward the Christian Science Church.
At Bishop, California, June 20. 1900, Judge Hanby married Ger-
trude Gunter They are the parents of two children: Helen Lucile, born
in 1902, is a student in the Normal Arts High .School, and Douglas Vin-
cent, born in 1908, attending the public schools.
Mrs. Melvina A. Lott. To a "native son" there is great distinc-
tion in belonging to a family founded in California by those sturdy
pioneers, the "forty-nmers," equalled by the pride displayed by those-
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of New England birth in descent from passengers on the historic May-
flower. Therefore, it is but natural that Mrs. M^lvina A. Lott is proud
of the fact that she is a niece of the famous Remi Nadeau, known all
over the West as proprietor of the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company,
and later as the builder of the old Nadeau House that still stands at
First and Spring Streets, then the finest portion of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Lott was brought from Vermont to Los Angeles when a child
during 1875. Her people were Canadians, who spent a few years in
Vermont prior to making the long trip overland to the "land of promise."
They, too, were practical and bought considerable property at Los
Angelrs. Mrs. Lott's mother, Adele Madeau, was the youngest of
fifteen children, all of whom were born in Canada. She was born in
1841, had a beautiful voice and at eighteen was the leading soprana in
Quebec Cathedral. She married Michel LaPointe in 1861. They had
eight children, of whom Mrfe. Lott is the second, and five are still living.
The father died in Los Angeles in 1909, and the mother in 1910.
In 1884 Mrs. Lott married Austin E. Lott, who for seventeen years
was ag:nt for Mr. Nadeau. Soon after his marriage he bought the
teams and outfit of Mr. Nadeau, and taking his young wife to the mimng
camp at Daggett, he continued the freighting business, she keeping the
books. During the last sixteen years of his life Mr. Lott lived in Los
Angeles and there his death occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Lott had a son,
Esperance A. Lott, and a daughter, who is now Mrs. H. M. Keller. At
his death Mr. Lott left his widow some very valuable property, located
opposite Pershing Square, where she now resides. She was subsequently
married to a man bearing the same name as her first husband, but not
related.
A lady of large means, Mrs. Lott's heart is as richly endowed with
a wealth of sympathy and generosity as her purse with gold, and her
benefactions are numerous and varied. A consistent member of the
First Methodist Church of Los Angeles, which she joined when but
twelve years old, she has made it many donations, the latest being a
ten thousand dollar chimes equipment for the new church edifice, her
name and subscription heading the list. She also financed the First
Methodist Episcopal Church Red Cross Auxiliary of over seventeen
hundred members, and is a life member of five church societies of Los
Angeles. During the past two years she has been an earnest worker in
the Red Cross, has been a leader in rummage sales, bazaars, and kindred
benefactions, and raised for the cause thousands of dollars. She obtained
materials from factories and, with her helpers, made at her home over
three hundred rugs, her output in salvage consisting of everything from
rags to gold and silver. An unusual privilege was conferred upon her
in that she was the only person, aside from Red Cross headquarters,
allowed to sell the products of her gathering and manufacture. During
two years she worked indefatigably in this noble cause, and the highest
Red Cross medal was conferred upon her.
While Mrs. Lott did not arrive in California until the pioneer period
was past, she imbibed much of the spirit of those glorious days and
possessed some of the characteristics of the men and women who raised
standards of hearty, wholesome liospitality, generous, open-handed
friendship, and a fearlessness in supporting what they .believed to be
right and good. As long as such persons as Mrs. Lott remain, Los
Angeles will continue to live up to its name, and the spirit of the founders
of the "Golden State" will continue to animate it and its works.
Perhaps the finest crown_of long experience and achievement is the
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spirit of humility which is found in all really wise people. Many of
her close friends and co-workers have long known Mrs. Lott for her
literary ability, especially as a writer of verse, much of which has been
heard in church and charity entertainments. The quality of her verse
and the spirit just noted above is best expressed in the following stanzas
from the pen of Mrs. Lott :
What can I say that has not been said ?
Of the pleasant things in life?
What can I tell that has not been told
Of all the world's sadness and strife?
What can I see no other has seen?
The beautiful everywhere found —
I can see with just my own viewpoint —
All the bad and the good around.
What can I hear not heard by others?
There is music in everything.
It's just within self, in mind and will
That gives all a musical ring.
What can I be no other has been?
Nothing but my only self, Me,
For there were never two just alike,
So I can just one pattern be.
What can I do that has not been done
In this world of pleasure and strife?
It is only character that counts—
In the building to make a life.
What can I love any more than you ?
Only that which belongs to me —
As personal gifts from God I love;
And that is just as it should be.
What can I take with me when I go?
Not an item more than can you.
We bring nothing in, take nothing out,
'Tis something we can not undo.
What are the pleasures to be enjoyed,
By the taste, touch, hearing or sight —
Not enjoyed by the first here on earth?
The answer is none, md 'tis right.
When I pass on and my story told,
I'll be worth just this, hear me say!
Not one cent less, or one penny more —
Than what I have given away.
When I shall go to the Great Beyond —
And the song of my life is sung —
I'll be remembered by just one thing;
And that will be, what I have done.
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Remi Nadeau came to California in 1859 from Minnesota, and
unlike so many of his associates, did not waste effort in endeavoring to
wrest from the rocks and waters of the state its golden treasure, but
practically set to work to reap a harvest from the necessities of those
too excited over picking up gold to exert themselves in ordinary business
affairs.
Recognizing that the vast army of gold seekers marching across
the country from every section would have to be fed and clothed, and
that their gold would have to be freighted as well as their goods, Mr.
Nadeau decided to provide the means for furnishing a safe and, for the
time and locality, rapid transportation service. His finances at the
beginning only permitted of the purchase of a few mules, but he added
to the number as rapidly as possible, and at one time owned sixty-five
teams of twenty-two mules to a team. These teams traveled the entire
distance from San Pedro up through Death Valley, making Los Angeles
and San Fernando, Newhall, Mojave Desert and over Death Valley and
Cliente, and hauled freight exclusively, and this was the only transporta-
tion facility the region afforded for some years. The work of this com-
pany forms an important part of the history of California during its
formative period.
Remi Nadeau was born near Quebec, Canada, in 1818. As a young
man he showed a mechanical turn of mind, and all his varied enter-
prises, though on a small scale at the time, showed the constructive energy
in him. He was one of a family of fifteen children, his parents being
married at the ?ge of sixteen. On leaving his native land, Remi Nadeau
came to the United States and lived in Minnesota until he crossed the
plains to California, spending the winter en route at Salt Lake City.
He came with ox team. During the time of his transportation business
he had some sixty-five stations and, as stated, sixty-five mule teams.
The present site of Clune's Auditorium, just opposite the Pershing
Square, was a great corral for the many teams of Mr. Nadeau. When
Mr. Nadeau built the hostelry which bore his name, it was the only
four-story structure in Los Angeles, and his contemporaries jeered at
the far-sighted business man who always had faith in the future of the
city and was broad-gauged enough to jjrove it in a material manner.
In disposition he was very ambitious, possessed wonderful executive
ability, and throughout his enterprises were permeated with a high
degree of public spirit. At one time he had the largest vineyard, thirty-
six hundred acres, owned by any individual in the world. For two years
he made wine. His vineyard was located near the town of Florence.
After it had come into full bearing, an insect attacked it and so ravaged
the vines, attacking the roots, that in a few months' time they were
practically all gone.
Remi Nadeau also deserves lasting memory for the pioneer part
he played in developing the beet sugar industry in Southern California.
At one time he had some twenty-eight hundred acres in this crop. His
beet fields were in the Bliona district, where is now Playa del Rey. The
making of sugar was accomplished by a crude process. Later he sent a
large sum of money by a friend to Europe for the purpose of buying
machiner)' used abroad for the manufacture of sugar beets. The ma-
chinery was shipped to California, and on arrival it was found to be un-
workable, and Mr. Nadeau lost over a hundred thousand dollars by the
venture. However, his initiative was of tremendous worth and really
started the beet sugar business in Southern California. His handling
.of this and other affairs showed the large scale on which his mind
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ONE OF A NUMBER OF STORES AND STATIONS OWNED BV R. NADEAU.
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operated. At one time he planted the largest barley field anywhere in
the world, thirty thousand acres, in the vicinity of Inglewood, then
called the Centenella Ranch. The expected and usual rains did not come
that year and here again was entailed a loss of two hundred thousand
dollars.
The Nadeau Hotel, which he built in 1885, is still running as a hotel,
recently remodeled and quite modern. He also owned the land at Fifth
and Olive Streets now owned by ths City Water Board. The old Nadeau
residence, a two-story white house, stood at the southwest corner of
Fifth and Olive Streets. He lived there many years and died there
January 15, 18S6. Remi Nadeau had that restless and inexhaustible
energy which kept him at work without vacation until he had worn his
body out. He died at the age of sixty-eight years.
In Concord, New Hampshire, he married Miss Martha Fry, a native
of New Hampshire. They were the parents of seven children, three of
whom died in childhood. The others reached mature age, and two are
still living, George A., a resident of Los Angeles, and Mary R., wife of
James H. Bell of Los Angeles. Both reside on Nadeau Street, namafi
for their father, and George occupies part of the old ranch and lives at
the old ranch house.
Frank S. Forbes, now one of the judges of the Justice Courts of
Los Angeles, and a successful lawyer of this city for ten years, came
to Southern California as a Congregational minister and for many years
was well known both in the East and the West for his work in that
denomination.
Judge Forbes was born in Waldo County, Maine, January 10, 1860,
son of Almon S. and Barbara Ann (Rich) Forbes. His interests have
always been scholarly and he acquired a good education in his youth and
has supplemented it by attending some of the foremost educational in-
stitutions of the country. He attended public school and in 1881 gradu-
ated from the Maine Central Institute, a preparatory' school. In 1885
he took his Bachelor's degree from Bates College, at Lewiston, Maine,
and forthwith entered the Theological Seminary of Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, where he graduated in 1888. His first call as a Con-
gregational minister was in the church at Omaha, Nebraska, where he
served until 1890. He was pastor of a church in Ogden, Utah, until
1894, and then temporarily resigned from the ministry to take post-
graduate work in Harvard University. He made a special study of
sociology, and while at the university was one of the city visitors of the
Associated Charities, that work giving him a splendid opportunity to
learn and observe the conditions in one of the poor Jewish quarters at
Boston. In 1895, on account of poor health, Mr. Forbes had to leave the
severe New England climate and come to California. Until 1901 he was
pastor of the Congregational Church at Santa Barbara and in that year
accepted the call to the East Side Congregational Church at Los Angeles.
He was with that church until 1906.
In 1905 he entered the College of Law of the University of Southern
California, graduating in 1908, and was immediately admitted to the
bar of the State of California. He at once began practice, and in 1910
was elected judge of Justice Court, Department C, an office which now
requires all his time. Judge Forbes is a Mason, a member of the City
Club, of the Presbyterian Church, and ijj politics a republican. Septem-
ber 21, 1887, at Oberlin, Ohio, he married Cora E. Gardner. Mr. and
Mrs. Forbes have adopted and reared four children, two of whom are
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orphan brothers of French parentage, but of American birth, named Allen
Joslyn Forbes and Charles Joslyn Forbes.
Mattison Boyd Jones. Since coming to Los Angeles, in 1900,
Mattison Boyd Jones has enjoyed a high rank in the legal profession,
and is also well known as one of the prominent Baptist laymen of Cali-
fornia and the West, and as a citizen whose interest goes out to every
well considered movement for the general welfare.
Mr. Jones was born at Tuttle, in Laurel County, Kentucky, June
15, 1869, a son of Hiram J. and Permelia (Black) Jones. His mother
was a sister of Hon. James D. Black, now Governor of Kentucky. Mr.
Jones attended public schools to the age of eighteen, then taught school
for two years, and took his college work at the University of Kentucky,
at Lexington, where he graduated with honors with the A. B. degree in
1894. He taught school at London, Kentucky, was principal of the
Laurel Seminary for one year and in the meantime diligently pursued
the study of law and was admitted to the bar October 17, 1895, at Lon-
don, Kentucky. He practiced a few months at London and then resumed
his teaching. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy at Wil-
liamsburg Institute, now known as Cumberland College, at Williams-
burg, Kentucky, for two years. In 1898 he was called to his alma mater
at Lexington as professor of miHtary science and instructor in mathe-
matics. He remained a member of the faculty of the University of
Kentucky and also continued post-graduate work there until January
1, 1900, when he resigned to come to Los Angeles, where he b^an the
practice of the law.
He was soon in the midst of a busy practice, and in, 1905 formed a
partnership with E. B. Drake under the firm name of Jones & Drake,
which was dissolved in 1909. In 1909 he associated himself with W. E.
Evans under the name Jones & Evans. That partnership was dissolved
in 1917, since which time Mr. Jones has practiced alone.
Mr. Jones had a very thorough military training. On his graduation
from the University of Kentucky in 1894 he was ranking officer of the
Battalion of Cadets. At that time Lieutenant Charles D. Clay, a grand-
son of the noted Henry Clay, and a regular army officer, was professor
of military science in Kentucky University. Lieutenant Clay presented
Mr. Jones with a dress sword just before graduation in recognition of
his one hundred per cent military record. At different times Lieutenant
Clay had to go to Washington on military business, and he left Mr.
Jones in full charge of the University Cadets. In 1898, when the com-
mandant was recalled to his regiment during the Spanish-American war,
the president of the University of Kentucky asked Mr. Jones to succeed
him, and this was the first time that the commandant of the university
was recruited from civilian ranks.
Mr. Jones is a man of thorough scholarship and has always been a
student. He took post-graduate work at the University of Chicago in
addition to the work he did at his alma mater. He is president of the
Board of Trustees of the University of Redlands, and has held that post
since the university was founded in 1909.
Ever since early youth Mr. Jones has given part of his time to church
duties. He was one of the organizers of the Temple Baptist Church
of Los Angeles. He was president of the Southern California Baptist
Convention two years and is still one of its directors. He served as
president of the Pacific Coast Baptist Conference, comprising all the
states west of the Rockies. He is past president of the Los Angeles
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County Baptist Association and the Los Angeles Baptist City Mission
Society.
In politics he is a democrat and served as alternate delegate at
large from California to the Democratic National Convention at Denver
in 1908. He is a director in a number of business corporations, is a
member of the City Club and University Club, and for many years has
been a deep student of Masonry. He is a member of both the York
and Scottish Rite bodies and the Shrine, and has filled a number of
chairs, being a past high priest, past illustrious master, past commander,
and at present is grand king of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons of California.
At Louisville, Kentucky, January 3, 1900, Mr. Jones married Miss
Antoinette Ewell Smith. They have one daughter, Lillian Winifred, now
attending the University of Redlands. Mrs. Jones is a prominent club
woman of California, and recently retired from a two-year term as pres-
ident of the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs. She
is also an accomplished musician, being now vice president of the Cali-
fornia Federation of Music Clubs.
RuFUS W. BuRNH.\M is one of the oldest men in the service of the
internationally know mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Company. That
firm was established at New York in 1841. While one of the oldest
mercantile agencies in America and with a widespread service that
makes the name "Dun" a common phrase in commercial transactions, it
is a matter of interest to note that Mr. Bumham became associated with
the company more than forty years ago and has therefore been in its
service through more than half of its total existence.
Mr. Bumham, who has had charge of the Los Angeles branch
agency since 1894, took charge of this office seven years after it was
established in 1887. The first location of R. G. Dun & Company in Los
Angeles was 232 North Main Street, where the office was maintained
over twenty years, and since 1908 Mr. Burnham has had his headquarters
in the International Bank Building. Through the experienced direction
of Mr. Burnham the Dun & Company agency has become an indispensable
factor to the business community, and has facilities for the most perfect
and reliable information as to credits and financial conditions generally.
Mr. Burnham was born in Windham, Connecticut, January 21, 1851,
and was only three months old when his father, William Bumham, died.
His mother, Ellen (Bass) Burnham, is still living, at the age of ninety
years, aiid retains her faculties almost unimpaired. She resides at
Andover, Connecticut.
Mr. Burnham was educated in public and private schools at Wind-
ham, Connecticut, and Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and as a young Uian
went to work in a book and stationery house at Norwich, Connecticut.
He was employed there seven years and after that was with a dry goods
house at Hartford, Connecticut. He first came to the West in 1877, and
in 1878 entered the employ of the R. G. Dun & Company at Kansas City.
He was sent to Denver, Colorado, as manager of the company's agency
there in 1880, but resigned in 1884, and for thirty-five years has made
his home on the Pacific Coast. For ten years he spent most of his time
traveling as a reporter for Dun & Company, and in 1894 took the man-
agement of the Los Angeles office.
During his long residence in Los Angeles he has been a valued
leader in many movements for the upbuilding and progress of the city
and county. He served on the executive committee of the Municipal
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League since it was organized until 1914, and for several years was first
vice president. He was a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce from January, 1912, to January, 1916, and has been a member of
its more important committees. In 1896, during th; first McKinley
campaign, he was one of the five members of the executive committee
of the Business Men's Sound Money Club. He is a member of the Sixth
Agricultural District Association, in charge of the Exposition Park, and
served as chairman in 1919. Mr. Burnham is also a member of one of
the most exclusive clubs in the city, the Sunset Club, which he served
as president in 1908. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, City Club,
Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, and during the war was
very active as a leader in both the Red Cross and Liberty Bond cam-
paigns, heading a team in support of both organizations.
Mr. Burnham resides at the Bryson Apartments. He married, at
Oakland, California, December 30, 1887, Miss Marion Bennison. She
died at Los Angeles February 8, 1917. Mr. Burnham has one daughter,
Mrs. Richard H. Oakley of Los Angeles, who was born at Oakland and
educrtcd in the Los Angeles High School and is a graduate of Marlboro
School for Girls at Los Angeles and of Dana Hall in Wellesley. Mrs.
Oakley has two daughters, Barbara and Jean, natives of Los Angeles.
SiEGFRiFD G. Marshutz is a pioneer optician and optometrist in
Southern California, having been in business in Los Angeles for over
thirty-three years. An entire generation of Los Angeles people have been
familiar with his stores, always located in the newest sections in the
business district, and representing the highest type of exclusive optical
service enterprise in the West.
Mr. Marshutz was born in Bavaria, Germany, August 18, 1862, a
son of Morris and Getty (Steinfeld) Marshutz. He acquired a thorough
high niid t clinical school education, graduating at the age of sixteen.
His early studies were preparatory to the profession of optometry. After
leaving school, however, he worked in a glass manufacturing business
until he was twenty-one, wh n he left home and came to New York.
He remained there but a short while, answering the call of the West,
feelinp: that greater opportunities were open for him there. Traveling
through ihe West, he arrived in San Francisco at Christmas time in
1884. Shortly after New Year's of 1885 he went to Sacramento and
engaged in the optical business there. Up to that time optical goods
had been handled as a side or incidental line to other businesses, but Mr.
Marshutz opened there the first exclusive optical establishment in Sacra-
mento. Leaving Sacramento, he came to Los Angeles in 1887 and estab-
lished I'lewise th: first exclusive optical shop, his first place of business
being adjoining the old United States Hotel, on North Main Street. He
remained ;h re until changing conditions, need of larger and better
quarters and the greater convenience to his patrons influenced him to
move to ihe newer business sections, and in 1915 located at his present
addrcs-, 227 West Seventh Street.
Mr. Mnrshutz was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Associa-
tion of Opticians, also of the California State Association of Opto-
metrists, as well as a charter member of the American Optometrical
Association. Largely through his personal influence a bill was passed
requiring nil opticians to be examined before a newly created State
Board of Examiners in Optometry before being prrmitted to practice.
California was the second state in the Union to adopt this standard as
applied lo optometrists and opticians, though today there are forty-four
states having similar legal requirements.
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Mr. Marshutz was one of the charter members of the Westgate
Lodge No. 335, F. and A. M., which was instituted in November, 1898.
When in 1896 the world was startkd by the announcement that
Doctor Roentgen of Germany had discovered a new and hitherto un-
known kind of rays, the now so-called X or Roentgen rays, Mr. Marshutz
at once secured a copy of Doctor Roentgen's original lecture on the
subject. As a member of the Los Angeles Academy of Science, before
a record audience, Mr. Marshutz read, on March 11, 1896, the first paper
regarding Doctor Roentgen's startling discovery.
He was the founder and for seven years president (until he re-
signed) of the Jewish Orphans Home of Southern California, located
at Huntington Park, ef which he is now honorary president and a
director. He is also a director of Congregation B'nai B'rith, and from
1905 to 1909 served as a member of the Los Angeles Public Library
Commission.
Mr. Marshutz did much active work in civil matters as well, as, for
instance, he was instrumental in having the streets south of Eighth
Street, between Flower and Figueroa Streets, paved, being chairman
of a committee appointed for that purpose by the Municipal League. He
also secured the paving and ornamental lighting system on Pico Street,
as well as the franchise for the extension of the West Pico car line from
Flower Street to Main Street.
July 8, 1892, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Hattio. Wolf stein.
They have two sons, Herbert Stanton, aged twenty-five, and Stephen
Carl, aged twenty-one. Herbert S. is a graduate of the Polytechnic High
School and the Stanford University, and during the war was m the
Motor Transport Corps. He was discharged December 18, 1918, as
first lieutenant in the Motor Transport Reserve Corps, and is now en-
gaged in the importing and manufacturing business in New York. Ste-
phen C. attended the Polytechnic High School also and is a graduate of
the Los Angeles Medical School of Opthalmology and Optometry, and
has successfully passed the examination of the State Board of Examiners
in Optometry, held in Los Angeles September 15 and 16, 1919.
Mr. Marshutz is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of
the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association,
Municipal League, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and is a republican.
William H. Richardson. An important business and a beautiful
store probably known to every resident of Los Angeles is the Richardson
Music Company. The founder and head of this concern has had a
career of progressive development, beginning as a utility boy in a local
music house. He has a high standing among musical goods salesmen on
the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Richardson was born in Los Angeles, March 19, 1884, a son
of Joseph and Mary A. (Hobbs) Richardson. His father, a native of
Dumfries, Scotland, was educated in public schools and business college
at Edinburgh, and at the age of twenty-six came to the United States
and located at New Orleans, where for a time he was engaged in busi-
ness. He came to California with his brother, John M., a sea captain,
in 1880, locating for a short time in San Francisco. Later he moved to
Los Angeles, where for a number of years he was in business handling
farm implements and carriages. In 1896 he went to Japan to represent
American manufacturers. In October, 1900, the vessel on which he
was a passenger collided with another in Nagasaki Harbor and he was
drowned. He married, in Los Angeles, in 1882, Mary A. Hobbs, daugh-
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ter of William Hobbs, who founded the First Baptist Qiurch of Los
Angeles in 1870. Later he did extensive work in the Southwest as a
missionary. William H. Richardson is the oldest of three children. His
brother Jack is in the navy yard at Mare Island, California. The young-
est brother, Charles M., recently returned from France, where he served
in the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Infantry, Ninety-first Division. He
was in some of the major operations on the various fronts, being credited
with participation in battles of Ypres, Lys, the St. Mihiel and Meuse
Argonne offensives.
William H. Richardson attended public schools at Los Angeles to
the age of fourteen. He then struck out to make his own way, working
as general utility boy for the Exton Music Company. Vie was with them
four years, advancing his education by attending night school in the
meantime, and he left the firm in the capacity of phonograph salesman.
The following eight months he had charge of the phonograph depart-
ment of the Pacific Music Company. He then went with the Southern
California Music Company as phonograph salesman, and in 1914 became
manager of that department. A man of recognized ability as a salesman
and broad experience, he resigned to found the Richardson's, Incorpor-
ated, of which he is president. The company opened its beautiful store
on West Seventh Street in June, 1919. They handle phonographs, in-
cluding the art models, pianos, specializing in "the Welte Mignon player,
and are also dealers in music and various other musical goods. Mr.
Richardson is the inventor of the "Phonograph Console," used for dem-
onstrating records.
Mr. Richardson is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the
Los Angeles Credit Men's Association, and was secretary of the Talking
Machine Dealers' Association in 1918. He is a republican. He married,
in Los Angeles, Lalah A. Russ, in 1911.
William I. Gilbert, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer, with offices
in the Title Insurance Building, was formerly a successful member of the
bar of Oklahoma and, in addition to a general practice, represents the
Southern Pacific Company in Los Angeles.
He was born at Martinsville, Missouri, August 18, 1876, son of
Horace W. and Trescendia (Wren) Gilbert. His father was a native
of Vermont, while the mother was born in Kentucky. They were mar-
ried in Clay County, Missouri, and Horace W. Gilbert was one of the
pioneers of Oklahoma, where for many years he enjoyed a commanding
position in the bar. He practiced law altogether forty-six years in
Missouri and Oklahoma. During the Civil war he was a private soldier.
He died at Watonga, Oklahoma, in 1896, at the age of sixty-eight, and
his widow is still living in Oklahoma City. They had seven children,
all reaching mature years, and four living today. William I. Gilbert is
the only living son and the only member of the family in California. Two
brothers, Emmett W. and Harry F., are both deceased.
Mr. Gilbert was educated in the" public schools of Missouri, and at
the age of eighteen years qualified for admission to the bar of Okla-
homa. He began practice at Watonga with his father under the name
H. W. Gilbert & Son. Upon his father's death, in 1896, he and his
brother, Harry F., were associated as Gilbert & Gilbert until 1904, when
his brother died. He then conducted an individual practice until 1909,
in which year he moved to Oklahoma City, forming an association with
C. B. Stuart and A. C. Cruce, under the name Stuart, Cruce & Gilbert.
Mr. Gilbert retired from this partnership in 1913 and moved to Los
,^a-
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Angeles. For two years he was in partnership with ex-Governor Henry
T. Gage and W. I. Foley, under the name Gage, Foley & Gilbert, but
since then has been at the head of his own organization.
Mr. Gilbert was president of the Oklahoma Bar Association during
1907, when Oklahoma was admitted to the Union. He is a member of
the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles Athletic Club,
City Club of Los Angeles, Automobile Club of Southern California, is a
democrat in politics, a York Rite Mason and Shriner, Knight of Pythias
and Elk, having membership in these several fraternities at Oklahoma
City.
December 12. 1898, he married Miss Lucy Witt of Abilene, Texas.
She was born and educated in that state and they were married in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have two living children, Jeanne M. and W. L Jr.,
both of whom were born at Duncan, C)klahoma.
Irving Herman Hellman is a son of the late Herman W. Hell-
man, one of the greatest business men and financiers of California, and
since his father's death he and his brother, Marco H. Hellman, have
been the executive managers of the vast Hellman estate, comprising
banking, building, unimproved city properties, ranch lands and other
holdings scattered over the greater part of California.
Mr. Hellman, the younger, is a building engineer by profession,
and had the distinction of serving as the first reinforced concrete engineer
for the city of Los Angeles. While he has not practiced his profession
since his father's death, technical knowledge has stood him in good
stead in the handling of his business affairs. He was bom where the
Herman W. Hellman Building now stands. May 10, 1883, in Los Angeles.
He first attended tlie grammar schools of Los Angeles, and after graduat-
ing from the city high school, took a special course in engineering at the
Armour. School of Technology, in Chicago, and he also studied under
four engineers of diiiferent nationalities, specializing in all problems in-
volved in re-enforced concrete construction. Returning to Los Angeles
in 1906, he took the Civil Service examination, making a high record,
and soon afterward was appointed to the official position above men-
tioned. In that office, which he held for a year and a half, he was the
city's expert representative in passing upon all the re-enforced buildings
and structures put up in Los Angeles, and one of the chief enterprises
that came under his direct personal inspection was the Temple Audi-
torium, one of the largest buildings in Southern California.
Since early in 1908 Mr. Hellman has been one of the active man-
agers of his father's estate. These interests alone constitute a business
of great magnitude, and taken in connection with affairs accumulated
under his personal initiative, it is evident that Mr. Hellman has for a
number of years been one of the busiest men in Los Angeles. He is
vice president and active manager of the Hellman Conunercial Trust
and Savings Banlv, which was formerly the All Night and Day Bank, is
a director of the Merchants National Bank, the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, is vice president of the Marine Commercial and Savings
Bank of Long Beach, is a director of the First Bank of Hermosa Beach
and the Redondo Savings Bank, and is interested in other country banks ;
he is also a director of Aronson and company, one of the large stock and
bond houses of Southern California.
With all these heavy responsibilities, Mr. Hellman has again and
again responded to calls demanding his civic services and has interested
himself in many problems aflfecting greater Los Angeles, including har-
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bor and aqueduct improvements. He is a member of the West Shore
Gun Club, and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, the Union League
Club, Jonathan Club, life member of the Mystic Shrine, is a thirty-second
degree Mason and Elk, and belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
He refits himself by such wholesome recreations as automobiling, golfing
and hunting. November 30, 1911, at Los Angeles, Mr. Hellman married
Miss Florence Marx, and at this time is the proud possessor of two
young lady daughters, Miss Ida Hermanie Hellman and Miss Evelyn
Hellman.
George Beebe, a former assistant attorney general of California, is
a native of Los Angeles, and for a number of years has enjoyed a suc-
cessful association with the bar and business and civic affairs.
His father, the late Charles A. Beebe, was a pioneer resident of
Los Angeles, and is remembered for his long, faithful and skillful service
as a practiced accountant with some of the prominent business firms of
the city. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut, March 2, 1831, was
educated there, and in 1857 came to California by way of the Isthmus
of Panama. In 1859 he came to Los Angeles with the father of Mark
G. Jones, former county treasurer. His first home in this city was in
the old Lafayette, now the St. Elmo Hotel. Mr. Jones estabhshed in
this city a general merchandise and ship chandlery business near the
Plaza, and Charles A. Beebe was its manager for several years. Later
he resumed accounting with General Phineas Banning, then with the Los
Angeles Milling Company, and finally with the Capital Milling Company.
His business career terminated with his death on April 23, 1895, and
during that time he had been associated with many of the business
leaders and builders of the cit}^ In 1869, at Stonington, Connecticut,
he married Almira Clark Lewis. They had two children : Miss Mary C.
of Los Angeles, and George.
Mr. George Beebe was born in Los Angeles, August 5, 1871, and
was graduated from the local high school in 1889. For several years he
was earning a living at different occupations. The most valuable experi-
ence and training of that period came from his employment as an exam-
iner of titles with the firm of Pendleton & Williams. His early law
studies were directed by Mr. Edwin A. Meserve, and in 1899 he was
admitted to the bar. During the next two years he remained as clerk
to Mr. Meserve and also secured some clientage of his own.
In 1901 he was appointed city prosecutor, and through his work in
that office he attracted much attention to his qualifications as a skillful
advocate and thoroughly grounded lawyer. He resigned that pos'tion
April 1, 1907, to accept the appointment with the attorney general and
obtained this broader experience for nearly eight years, during which
time he was connected with many of the important cases handled by the
state department of justice. In January, 1915, Mr. Beebe retired from
office and has since been busied with a large private practice in his
native city. He is also vice president and a director of the National
Creamery and Produce Company.
Mr. Beebe has affiliations with Golden State Lodge of Masons, the
Elks, Native Sons of the Golden West, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Cham-
ber of Commerce, Los Angeles Bar Association, and the republican party.
November 16, 1911, he married Addie Mae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lemuel H. Schutt of Halsey Valley, New York.
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Herbert Cutler Brown. A lawyer who has many titles to distinc-
tion and success, especially in the field of corporation practice, Herbert
Cutler Brown was admitted to the California bar more than twenty-five
years ago. After some youthful experience as an editor and owner of
several newspapers, Mr. Brown, who is a college graduate, first came to
Los Angeles in the winter of 1887-88, and therefore knows something
of the city at the heighl of the early boom days.
He was bom at Charleston, Illinois, July 31, 1865, son of Calvin
and Marion (Bliss) Brown, both natives of Massachusetts, where the
former was for a number of years a successful banker. Several in-
dividuals in the direct ancestral lines were with Washington in the
Revolutionary war and also in the War of 1812, Colonel Isaacher Brown
having gained special prominence in the latter struggle. Mr. Brown is
therefore eligible, though he has never taken the pains to qualify, as a
member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Both parents spent
their last years in Southern California, locating at Pasadena in 1890.
They died in Los Angeles, the father in 1918, at the age of seventy-
seven, and the mother in the same year at seventy-six.
Herbert Cutler Brown spent his early youth in Chicago, attending
the public schools of Hyde Park. He is a graduate of Beloit College,
Wisconsin, with the A. B. degre?, class of 1887. In 1890 he again came
West to Los Angeles, with his parents, and began the diligent study of
law with Brunson, Wilson & Lamme. Admitted to the bar in the early
part of 1892 and after one year of practice alone, he became associated
with Judge D. P. Hatch and John M. Miller under the firm name of
Hatch, Miller & Brown, a firm that during its existence handled many
cases of interest as well as great importance. After sixteen years of
almost constant professional labors, Air. Brown retired in 1908 and spent
the next seven years in the East. The character of the practice which
he left is indicated by the fact that he was attorney for such interests as
the American Steel & Wire Company, the Employers' Liability Insurance
Company, the Fidelity & Casualty Company, the Maryland Casualty
Company and other insurance and gas corporations. Mr. Brown has
resumed his former place in the Los Angeles bar since 1915, and is
now an office associate with Delphin M. Delmas and Harry W. McNutt.
February 14, 1895, Mr. Brown married Miss Zoe Elsie Lowe, a
daughter of the late Professor T. S. Lowe, of whom there is a permanent
memorial in Mt. Lowe and Mt. Lowe Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
have two children: Zoe, Mrs. J. W. Robson of Pittsburgh, and Cutler
Brown, the latter born in Los Angeles and the former in Pasadena. In
1919 Mr. Brown was married to Katharine McNefT of New York City.
She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McNeff of Portland, Oregon,
and a graduate of Columbia University. Mrs. Brown has always been
active in art circles.
Mr. Brown is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Chib, Los
Angeles Bar Association, and in past years has thrown a considerable
weight of influence in behalf of the republican party. He was twice
oflFered an appointment from the Governor of the office of judge of
the Sup:rior Court and the nomination for state senator, but he has
always steadily declined political honors.
John L. Butler is captain of police of Los Angeles. Many unusual
characteristics and experiences contribute to his well-known qualifications
for this responsible office. He is a man of great ability, absolutely tear-
less, and of a personal integrity that insures him the respect of all
classes.
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Mr. Butler was born in the rugged country of Northwestern Ar-
kansas, at Siloam Springs, Benton County, December 13, 1870, son of
William C. and Cherr}- L. (Lewis) Butler. Until he was eighteen years
old he attended public schools and worked on his father's farm, and then
for a couple of years was employed by his father on the fruit and grain
ranch. In 1890 he went out to the State of Washington, locating at
Tekoa, in Whitman County, where he put in four arduous years as a
wheat and general farmer. Returning home in 1894, Mr. Butler attended
Bentonville Business College and the Mason Valley Institute, both well-
known institutions of Arkansas, being a student there for two years.
He then had six months of work as a teacher in Benton County.
This briefly sums up his experience prior to coming to Los Angeles
in 1897. In Los Angeles he spent one year as a gripman on the Temple
Street cable line. Then for two and a half years he was a conductor
with the Los Angeles Traction Company, and he left the street car to
become a patrolman with the Los Angeles police force. He has had
many promotions, all of them merited by reason of ser\'ice. June 1,
1905, he was appointed acting sergeant, and on December 1, 1906, be-
came sergeant. January 1, 1912, he was advanced to lieutenant, and on
October 16, 1916, took a leave of absence to serve as chief of police,
which position he held until the close of his term, July 7, 1919. On
December 25, 1918, he took the examination and was appointed captain
of police. Upon his retirement as chief he resumed his position in the
police departmer.i with the rank of captain. As chief of police he was
ex-officio trustee of the Policemen's Relief and Pension Fund. May 1,
1908, he was detailed to traffic duty and organized the traffic squad and
formulated and put into effect the first traffic regulations ii. the city.
He held this assignment until he became chief, during which time he
made extensive studies of traffic in the larger cities of the country and
incorporated the best features in the regulations of this city.
Chief Butler is a member of the Advisory Board of the United
States Explosive Commission and a deputy inspector of the State Board
of Health. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Foresters,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Mason, Knight Tem-
plar and Shriner, and is past patron of the Order of Eastern Star. He
also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, is a republican in politics
and a Protestant in religion. August 29, 1894, at Colfax, Washington,
he married Sarah N. Faust, nee Conner.
Jacob Stern. Thirty years ago Jacob Stern was partner in a small
general merchandise store at Fullerton, the store building having a
twenty-five-foot frontage. The great extent of his present interests can
not be confined to any one building or even a single county of California.
It is said that Mr. Stern owns land in nearly every county of California.
He is president of the Stern Realty Company, Incorporated, of Los An-
geles, which handles a vast amount of his propert}^ interests. He is an
executive and director in a number of other corporations, and is un-
doubtedly one of the wealthiest and has been one of the most successful
business men of Southern California.
He came here practically friendless and alone. He was born in
Saxony, Germany, September 20, 1859, a son of Marcus and Rosetta
(Goodman) Stern. His parents spent all their lives in Germany, where
his father was a dealer in hops and cattle. Jacob Stem grew up on his
father's farm and had a substantial education acquired in the common
schools and also a business college. After leaving school, until his
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twentieth year he assisted his parents on the homestead farm, marketing
the hve stock and produce. He left the port of Hamburg in June, 1884,
crossed the ocean to New York, thence went to Cleveland, was also at
Bryan and Bucyrus, Ohio, and for about five years was employed in
the wholesale clothing house of Lehman, Richman & Company at Cleve-
land. Mr. Stern came to Fullerton, California, in 1889, forming a
partnership with Mr. Goodman. They had only a small stock of general
merchandise, but their business grew and prospered until the merchan-
dise was housed in a building 270 feet in front, covering seven-e'ghths
of an entire block, and representing an investment of half a million
dollars of capital. This was the Stern & Goodman Company, Mr. Good-
man having entire charge of the store at Fullerton, while Mr. Stern
looked after the hay, grain and real estate departments, with headquar-
ters in Tos Angeles. It is estimated that three-fourths of the hay and
grain business of Orange County was handled by Mr. Stern. The Stern
& Goodman Merchandise Company sold their stock of goods at Fuller-
ton in 1918, but still own the Stern & Goodman Block. In former years
as merchants they dealt in every conceivable commodity likely to be
required by their widely extended patronage. They were even interested
in live stock, town lots and farms. In 1904 Mr. Stern opened his real
estate office in the Pacific Electric Building at Los Angeles, and in 1915
moved to the Haas Building, Seventh and Broadway. For several years
he specialized in oil lands and general lands, chiefly in Los Angeles and
Orange County, and the Stern Realty Company, incorporated in 1911,
now handles real estate and investments, including citrus and other
groves, unimproved land, but still makes a specialty of Orange County
property. Mr. Stern has been interested in developing some of the
choice suburban sites around Los Angeles. Among them is Richfield
Acres, Yorba Linda, Orange County, Leffimgwell Heights tract and East
Whittier Acres, also Aubumdale Acres near Corona, and several other
tracts in the southern part of Los Angeles County and Orange County. In
the month of October, 1919, he sold to Pacific Colony part of Wrights
tract, near Pomona, for $175,000. He is owner of 'the Stern lease, from
which, in October, 1919, the General Petroleum Company brought in a
gushing oil well, with a flow estimated at five thousand barrels per day.
Mr. Stern is also president of the Richfield Mutual Water Company, the
Corona Pumping Company, the Coyote Hill Land Company, and is a
director of the Central Pacific Improvement Company. He owns more
than twenty thousand acres of land in California, besides several build-
ings in Los Angeles. He was formerly interested in the general mer-
chandise firm of Stern Brothers at Anaheim, his partnership with his
brother continuing until 1909, when he sold out his interests. He also
owned a store at Placentia, and oil wells at Olinda, in Orange County,
and likewise conducted a general store, also in Brea, and Yorba Linda.
In 1891, at Los Angeles, Mr. Stern married Miss Sarah Laventhal,
daughter of E. Laventhal, a pioneer settler in Los Angeles County, now
deceased. The wedding was one of the largest afl'airs in the city of
Los Angeles. Mrs. Stern was born at Fullerton and was a teacher in
Los Angeles before her marriage. For a number of years Mr. and Mrs.
Stem lived in Fullerton, but in July, 1904, they bought the magnificent
Colonel Northam home in Hollywood, at the comer of Vine Street and
Hollywood Boulevard. This is one of the show places of the beautiful
Hollywood District. The five acres of land surrounding the residence
is adorned with every art of the landscape gardener. Mr. and Mrs.
Stern are the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters.
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The oldest child, Harold M., graduated from the Hollywood High School
in 1910, from the University of California in 1913, and took his law
degree at Harvard Law School in 1916, in which year he was admitted
to the California bar. During the war he was in the navy with the
rank of ensign, serving on the Eastern coast, and is now assisting his
father in business. The daughter, Elza, is the widow of Melville Jacoby,
who died of influenza in January, 1919. Helen, the second daughter, is
in the Hollywood High School, and Eugene J. is also in high school. All
the children were born in California. For six months Harold was also
on duty with the Bureau of Imports in the War Trade Board at Wash-
ington.
Mr. Stern joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Fuller-
ton and is also affiliated with the Fraternal Aid and Knights of Pythias.
He is a republican, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Cham-
ber of Commerce, Realty Board and Automobile Club of Southern Cali-
fornia. He is a fine representative of the men who have accomplished
big things in the advancement of all enterprises in California. Mr. Stem's
assistance as one of the firm of Stern & Goodman, to the ranchers at Ful-
lerton will long be remembered and their leniency and advice in enabling
the ranchers to hold on to their holdings during the hard times from
1890 to 1900.
John Joseph Jenkins. Whether he is known by personal acquaint-
ance— a privilege esteemed by many of the leading business men and
citizens of Los Angeles — or by the thousands and hundreds of thousands
who know his name as a symbol of good service in connection with the
City Dye Works and Laundry Company, the outstanding feature of John
Joseph Jenkins is an unlimited energ)' for work and a never-ending desire
to make his work of real benefit and service to his fellowmen.
A great many people work as a necessary prerequisite to getting
something they need or desire. Though Mr. Jenkins began to make his
living by work when eleven or twelve years of age, apparently he has
not yet become satisfied that work is entitled to be followed by rest.
Some of his old friends recall an incident that when he was a boy in
St. Paul, Minnesota, and worked as a devil in a printing establishment,
he showed an extraordinary ability at feeding a printing press at a rate
of speed and precision unknown in that shop. He was feeding the press
rapidly because that was his way of expressing his character and his
energy, and not merely for the sake of promoting himself higher on the
pay roll. His enthusiasm was not shared by his fellow workmen and
did not become contagious, since one night a burly Irishman met him
outside the shop and warned him that he must slow down in his speed
and be satisfied with producing only the normal output agreed upon by
his fellow employes. He was not convinced then nor since that this was
a sound principle for either the individual or an organization of labor,
and rather than conform, he just naturally discharged himself, and has
been more or less an active opponent of union labor to this day, par-
ticularly so far as the unions countenance and uphold a practice of hold-
ing back the individual desire to do one's best. However, this is only
incidental to his main career, and is mentioned here largely for the light
it throws on Mr. Jenkins' working ambition.
He was born in Philadelphia, June 11, 1869, son of George Spratt
and Marietta (Carrell) Jenkins. His paternal ancestors were Welsh
Quakers. His grandfather, David Hall Jenkins, was born June 9, 1812,
,at Philadelphia, while his wife was born in Monmouth, New Jersey,
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in April, 1812. On his father's side Mr. Jenkins is a great-great-grandson
of John Chapman, who served as a private soldier in Captain William
Price's company with the Chester County Pennsylvania Militia in 1777.
There were seven Jenkinses who were ministers of the gospel. The
family history goes back to 1667 to Morgan Rhydderch, an old chieftain,
who was a grandson of Griffith Ap Griffith, of the time of Queen Eliza-
beth.
George Spratt Jenkins was born at Covington, Pennsylvania, Febru-
ary 12, 1844, and died at Los Angeles June 26, 1918, at the age of seventy-
four. During the Civil war he was with a Pennsylvania regiment for
four years and six months, being a lieutenant when mustered out. He
was retained in service a number of months after the close of the war.
By profession he was an expert accountant. He had lived in Los Angeles
about twelve years. His wife was born in New York City August 1,
1850, of English ancestry. She died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in
1896. John Joseph is the only one now living of five children, two of
whom died in infancy. There were also two daughters, one of whom
was Gertrude Thompson Jenkins, named after the Long Island family
of Thompsons. She died at Spokane, Washington, in 1914.
John Joseph Jenkins has been earning his own way since he was
eleven years old. In the summer of 1881, when President Garfield was
shot, young Jenkins was selling newspapers on the streets of Philadelphia.
He continued to live in Philadelphia until he was thirteen years of age,
attending the common schools as opportunity offered. From there he
went to St. Paul, Minnesota, working for a time in a cracker and candy
factory, then in a wholesale stationery and drug house, and afterwards
started to learn the printer's trade, with results which have already
been noted. He made many friends in St. Paul, especially among the
French Canadians there. He had some part in city politics. Later he
became associated with the St. Paul Title Insurance Company. Its gen-
eral superintendent sent him to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to lay the
fo:mdation for a title insurance company in that state and city. He
laid that foundation, though at the same time he was in competition
with a million and a half dollar corporation. He formed an abstract
company called the Bissell, Millard & Jenkins Abstract Company. Later
Mr. Millard left to become secretary of a big business organization in
Chicago. Mr. Jenkins had most of the business responsibility for carry-
ing out the plans of his aged associate, Colonel Bissell, who soon after-
wards died, leaving the afl^air incomplete. The business was a long
cherished ambition of Colonel Bissell, and in order to complete it, Mr.
Jenkins organized what was known as the Lawyers Title Abstract
Company, all the stock being sold to lawyers. Mr. Jenkins personally
took upon himself the matter of selling the stock, though without experi-
ence in that line. The first lawyer he approached on the subject was
Philander Knox, known in American history as secretary of state and
now United States senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. Knox not only took
a kindly interest in the young stock salesman, giving him a great deal
of good advice, but placed his own name on the top line of the stock
subscribers. In about two years after the death of Colonel Bissell, Mr.
Jenkins had the company well organized and was its general manager.
At that point his health broke down, and he had to retire. In the mean-
time he had read a great deal of title law and had almost a lawyer's
knowledge of this subject.
In the meantime, while making a trip for Colonel Bissell, Mr. Jen-
kins' fertile mind had conceived the idea of a service whereby a man's
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suit might be taken care of in the same way that his shirts were handled
by laundries. The idea itself was original and the execution of it was
big and important under the directing genius of Mr. Jenkins. He formed
the Enterprise Pressing Company at Pittsburgh, and built up the industry
to most promising proportions. Five years later his health again broke
down and he sold out and in 1899 came to Los Angeles, expecting to see
California and die. but found so much inspiration, as well as health, in
the West that he determined to remain and live.
In 1899 Mr. Jenkins bought a half interest in a small plant, which
properly speaking could not be considered even the comer stone or any
part of the foundation of the present magnificent establishment known
as the City Dye Works and Laundry Company. The plant had a one-
horse wagon for deliver)', employed six persons, and its boiler was
capable of carrying only five pounds of steam. This little shop was at
345 South Broadway. Without considering the subsequent history of
twenty years' steady growth and expansion, it is suiificient to say that
the City Dye Works, of which Mr. Jenkins is president and manager, is
now a big plant, with branch stores at Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasa-
dena and Ocean Park, and altogether employs three hundred persons.
The main plant itself covers four acres, located at 3000 Central Avenue,
between Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second Streets. The concern main-
tains forty automobile delivery wagons and has one of the largest if
not the largest private garage in the city. The National Association of
Cleaners and Dyers has called this one of the model establishments of
the kind in the United States. It is a big industry, divided into many
departments, there being a special oiganization and department for
gloves, garments, blankets and laces, carpets, hats, ostrich feathers.
Mr. Jenkins was one of the two original Southern California good
roads boosters. Together with Robert C. Lennie, long since deceased, he
built the first bicycle path from Los Angeles to Santa Monica out of a
fund raised through the sale of good roads buttons to the bicycle riders
of that period. This well-constructed six-foot roadway was the obiect
lesson that awakened the public to the idea of improved highways, which
has since resulted in our splendid system of boulevards. Mr. Jenkins
was also secretary of the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association and a
member of the executive committee who laid out the auto road through
the Salton Desert in Imperial Valley and demonstrated the practicability
of constructing a highway through what was formerly an impassable
desert waste to automobiles.
More recently Mr. Jenkins was the man behind an entirely new and
unique organization on the Pacific Coast, a commercial yarn dyeing
establishment known as the Jenkins-Wright Company, Ltd., yarn dyers
and bleachers. This is the only establishment of its kind on the coast,
and handles practically all the commercial work in that line between
San Diego and Seattle. At the present writing improvements are under
way for the purpose of doubling the size of the yarn dyeing plant until
it will have a capacity for ten thousand pounds of worsted and ten
thousand pounds of cotton yam per week. There will also be a fireproof
storage with a capacity for five hundred thousand pounds of yam.
As this brief article has endeavored to show, Mr. Jenkins has had
an interesting career and has an interesting individuality. His personal
character is appreciated by his -nany friends and associates in the various
bodies of York Rite Masonry and the Shrine, the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, the Jonathan Club, Brentwood Country Club,
Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Automobile Club of
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Southern California, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Merchants'
and Manufacturers' Association, and the South Coast Yacht Club, of
which he was one of the first commodores. He is a member of the
Chemist Club of New York, belongs to the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, and for five years while living at Pittsburgh was a member of the
Naval Reserve and rose to the grade of junior lieutenant. He was on
the old battleship Maine the year before it was blown up in Havana
harbor. Politically he is a republican.
October 6, 1896. at Pittsburgh, Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hilda B.
Lowry of that city, the daughter of the late Washington Lowry, who at
one time was mayor of East Liberty, Pennsylvania, and became prom-
inent in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Jenkins was born and educated at Pittsburgh.
Benj.^min Franklin Pearson. Long service, all-round ability
and experience, and many notable achievements, have brought Benjamin
Franklin Pearson many of the most distinctive honors as an engineer,
especially as a hydro-electric operating engineer. Mr. Pearson came
to Los Angeles thirty years ago. and has practiced his profession and
has done its hard work and drudgery, as well as handled many important
executive responsibilities. He is and has been for several years general
superintendent of the California Edison Company.
Of an old and prominent family in England, he was born in Middle-
sex County, September 19, 1868, son of Benjamin and Sarah Louis
(Maile) Pearson. His school advantages were confined to the first four-
teen years of his life, during which time he attended St. Mary's School
at Cowley, and the Uxbridge Grammar School. At fourteen he was ap-
prenticed as a steam fitter and steam engineer to the Grand Junction
Company and put to his work so much natural proficiency and en-
thusiasm that at the age of eighteen he held a marine license under the
London Board of Examiners. He worked in England and also in the
United States for a year or so and reached Los Angeles in January,
1889. For several years he was a steam and sanitary engineer, but in
1896 began specializing in hydro-electric work, at which date he entered
the service of the Southern California Edison Company. The white
collar and the roll-top desk have been negligible incidents in the career
of B. F. Pearson. There is probably not a common laborer in the serv-
ice of this company who has done harder work and stood more hours
in the mud ancl water than Mr Pearson He has had many advance-
•T^nts, and as general superintendent has for a number of years directed
ai. technical branches of the industry. While recognized as a most
valv J. man to his corporation, Mr. Pearson feels an intimate fellow-
ship with the "man who works'' and for a number of years he was hardly
satisfied unless he had put in about eighteen hours each day at some
useful occr.pation.
Mr. Pearson has never cared to be called a philanthropist but has
never refused an invitation to get out and do things for those who need
assistance. He has been identified with a number of temperance and
rescue work undertakmgs, and has interested himself in behalf of prison
reform in California. He has been instrumental in liberating on parole
scores of prisoners from San Ouentin and Folsom prisons, and in 1911
Governor Johnson appointed him a trustee of th; Whittier State Reform
School, and he is now a trustee of the State Industrial Schools of Cali-
fornia. He is also a director of the Union and City Rescue Missions
and the Prison Parole League. Hundreds of the men who have spent
some part of their lives in the diiiferent prison and reform institutions
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know Mr. Pearson simply as "Uncle Ben." He is a republican in
national politics, is president of the Civil Service Commission of Los
Angeles, member of the American Institute of Electrical Eng^ineers, and is
affiliated with Westlake Lodge of Masons.
J. A. Graves since June 1, 1903, has been active vice-president of
the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, the oldest
bank of Southern California. Mr. Graves has lent his personal resources,
judgment and ability to many important business concerns in the state.
He is given credit for organizing the first title and abstract company
of Los Angeles. He was prominently associated with the organization
of the Oil Storage and Transportation Company and the building of
its storage tanks in Los Angeles and has been interested in some of the
largest oil properties in California.
Jackson Alpheus Graves has spent nearly all his life in California
and claims as his native state Iowa, a commonwealth which has con-
tributed as generously of its citizenship to Southern California as any
other eastern state. He was born at Hauntown, Clinton county, Iowa,
December 5, 1852, son of John Q. and Katherine Jane (Haun) Graves.
In 1857 the family came to California, first locating at Marysville in
Yuba county, and in 1867 moving to San Mateo county. Mr. J. A.
Graves acquired his early education in the public schools of Marysville,
and graduated from the San Francisco High School in 1869. In 1872
he received his A. B. degree from St. Mary's College at San Francisco
and the following year was awarded the degree A. M. and in 1912 the
degree of LL. D.
Mr. Graves is one of the veteran members of the California bar.
He studied law with Eastman and Neuman in San Francisco, and later
at Los Angeles, of which city he has been a resident since June, 1875. He
was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court, January 13. 1876. He
was first associated as a member of the law firm Brunson, Eastman &
Graves until June, 1878, from June, 1880, until January, 1885, was head
of the firm Graves & Chapman, his partner being John S. Chapman, and
in April, 1888, formed a partnership with Henry W. O'Melveny under
the name Graves & O'Melveny. Later J. H. Shankland became a mem-
ber of the new firm Graves, O'Melveny & Shankland. Mr. Graves
practiced law nearly thirty years, and for the greater part of that time
was regarded as one of the ablest lawyers of Los Angeles.
He was made vice president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Los Angeles in 1901, and in June, 1903, entered actively into the
management of the bank, about the time Mr. I. W. Hellman moved to
San Francisco. The Farmers and Merchants National Bank has many
distinctions apart from its claim to being the oldest banking institution
in Southern California. Among its officers and directors at the present
time and in the past have appeared the names of men of the highest
business and financial character. At the close of 1919 this bank had
total resources of over thirty-six million dollars, and operates with a
capital of one million five hundred thousand dollars and surplus and
profits of two million dollars.
Mr. Graves has also been an official or director in a number of other
financial institutions, including the Southern Trust Company, the Farm-
ers and Merchants National Bank of Redondo, the United States Na-
tional Bank of Azusa, the Security Savings Bank and the United States
National Banks of Los Angeles; the Whittier National Bank, the First
National Bank of Monrovia, First National Bank of El Monte, the
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National Bank of Long Beach and the Long Beach Savings Bank &
Trust Company. For over thirty years Mr. Graves has been interested
in orange growing, and some highly valuable orchards have been pro-
moted and developed by him.
October 23, 1879, at Los Angeles he married Miss Alice H. Griffith.
They became the parents of five children: Alice, wife of H. F. Stewart;
Selwyn E., who died March 1, 1908; Catherine, wife of E. S. Armstrong;
Jackson A., who died March 23, 1910, and Francis Porter Graves.
Albert Axel Eckstrom, who was one of the founders and for
many years vice president of the California Furniture Company of Los
Angeles, was a native son of California, and his life, though terminated
at the end of sixty years, wa~ a complete exemplification of the dignity
of labor, the beauty of friendship, and all the fruits that flow from sin-
cerity and integrity of character.
He was born at Stockton, California, March 25, 1859, a son of
Thomas and Elizabeth ( Stuart) Eckstrom. His father was a native of
Stockholm, Sweden, and came directly to California around the Horn to
San Francisco. While at Stockton he met Miss Elizabeth Stuart. She
was a direct descendant of the Stuarts of Scotland, where she was born.
As a girl she came to Stockton by way of the Isthmus to visit a married
sister, and in this sister's home she married Mr. Eckstrom. They were
the parents of a large family, the late Albert A. being the second son.
He acquired his early education in the schools of Stockton and
later attended the Franciscan College at Santa Barbara. He served an
apprenticeship at the upholstery trade at San Francisco. On returning
to Stockton he engaged in business for himself before he was twenty-
one years of age. Not long afterward he sold out and went back to
San Francisco, where he married Daisy E. L. Webb of that city, a mem-
ber of another pioneer California family. Her father, John M. Webb,
was born in England in 1806, and came to New York when very young.
He was a California forty-niner, and after a few years in the mines
around Sacramento took up his residence in Oakland. During the early
sixties he became permanently blind. During the years of affliction that
followed he was constantly and lovingly attended by his daughter, Mrs.
Eckstrom. Mr. Webb had a poetic soul, and when so many of his
activities were terminated by blindness, he expressed himself through
the avenue of poetry that might well enjoy a high rank with that of
other California poets. All of his work is still in manuscript and is
carefully preserved by Mrs. Eckstrom, who during her father's affliction
copied the verses as he recited them. He wrote many poems relating
to his journey to California by water, to the Civil war period, and to
historic places in his state. He died in San Francisco in 1884, at the
age of seventy-eight.
Daisy Webb attended the public schools of San Francisco and was
graduated from the high school of that city. She and Mr. Eckstrom were
married when she was twenty years of age. On her eighteenth birthday
she was a guest at the home of a girl friend also celebrating her eight-
eenth anniversary, and on that occasion she met Albert Eckstrom for
the first time.
After their marriage they removed to Seattle, Washington, and
during the year and a half of their residence in that city their first daugh-
ter was born. On January 1, 1882, they established their home at Los
Angeles, where Mr. Eckstrom was employed by the old Los Angeles
Furniture Company. Later he entered the wall paper business with two
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associates, under the firm name of Marsh-Eckstrom-Strasburg. Their
first location was on Main, near Third Street, and later Mr. Eckstrom
removed to Spring, between Third and Fourth Streets, and was in busi-
ness for himself. As noted above, he was a founder and for fifteen
years was vice president of the California Furniture Company, doing
business at 644 South Broadway.
He was active in business, civic and other affairs practically to the
end of his life. He died July 22, 1919, following an operation for appen-
dicitis. Mr. Eckstrom was a member of the draft board from the be-
gmning of the war until its close. He was well known fraternally, being
affiliated with the Elks, Masons, the Mystic Shrine, and at one time was
a charter member of a lodge of Knights of Pythias. However, he was
best known and he took the deepest interest in the Native Sons of the
Golden West. He possessed a beautiful loving cup presented him by
the Native Sons as a token of love and deep gratitude for valuable
services rendered during the San Francisco earthquake and fire. His
ashes are now contained in the loving cup and occupy a niche in the
columbarium of Forest Lav\^n Cemetery. He was a republican in politics.
His funeral services were conducted by Ramona Parlor of the Native
Sons. What his personality meant to many members of Ramona Parlor
and other friends and associates was well portrayed in a memorial tribute
paid him by the grand second vice president of the Native Sons. From
this tribute the following paragraphs are appropriately quoted :
"He was intimately known as 'Al.' 'Al' Eckstrom"s life must not
be spoken of in platitudes. All the vast philosophies of life for him were
molded into the simple text of the Golden Rule : "Do unto others as
you would have others do unto you.'
"His friendship was a matter of your choosing; the only qualifica-
tion he demanded was that you be trustworthy. He disliked equivoca-
tion and did not equivocate. He despised the pett)' falsities of life.
When his confidence was gained, he was your friend. In that friendship
he was ever ready to respond to the call for aid and to render such
assistance as was in his power. His friendship Was a jewel to treasure.
In response to his ideals of friendship he was strong in his attachments,
constant in his purposes, and faithful to his fellowmen.
"He believed that life should not be a mere conflict and trial of
strength, but that it should be a vast field of industry where the achieve-
ments of all should commingle for the common good. He was indus-
trious, self-sacrificing and honest. His life was governed by the tradi-
tions of industr}', hardihood and simple honesty of the pioneers from
whom he sprang. He was loyal to his country, to his state and to his
friends."
Three children were born to their marriage, all daughters. The
oldest died at the age of five years. The second daughter is Mrs. Ed-
ward Woodbury of Los Angeles. Edward Woodbury is the oldest son
of Professor Woodbury, who founded the first business college in Los
Angeles. The youngest daughter is Mrs. Etelka Skinner of Stockton,
California. The Eckstrom home was at 1844 North Vine, a beautiful
Italian villa, one of the show places of Hollywood, with sunken gardens
and wealth of flowers and shrubs.
Edward W. Coit, who died at the age of seventy-eight, in Los
Angeles, September 25, 1915, was for many years a distinguished figure
in the industrial affairs of the nation. He was one of the pioneer
manufacturers of iron pipe in the United States.
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He was born at Plattsburg, New York, and received his early edu-
cation from his father, an Episcopal clergyman. He was one of six
brothers, only one surviving. Dr. J. Milnor Coit, who at one time was
chief of the American Red Cross Society in Munich, Germany.
Edward W. Coit when a young man lived for several years in Cham-
plain, New York, and while there was appointed postmaster of the
town. Soon after that appointment he married Miss Caroline Moore of
Champlain. During the next year Mr. Coit endeavored to help a local
hardware dealer solve a problem concerning his stock, and the interest
aroused by that experience opened up a new avenue of usefulness for
him and one in which his talents found a broad and congenial field.
The American iron and steel industry was th m comparatively in its
infancy and there was abundant opportunity for a young man of his
talents and earnest determination. He was soon invited to go to Phila-
delphia for the Morris-Trasker Company and was rapidly advanced
to responsibilities. He was one of the men originally connected with
the production at Taunton, Massachusetts, of the first wrought iron
pipe made in America. In 1878 Mr. Coit was called to the office of
president and general manager of the Reading Iron Works at Reading,
Pennsylvania. That was one of the greatest corporations in the country
and he remained its executive head until 1892. He then resigned to
become manager for W. R. Hart & Company, proprietors of the Lake
Superior Iron Ore Company. Three years later he moved to St. Louis
as manager of the National Tube Company's branch works there. In
1900 he was attracted to the west, lived in various parts of California
and in 1904 settled permanently at Los Angeles, where he became an
official with the Oil Wells Supply Company of that city. Thus until
the very last his pioneer interest in the manufacture of iron pipe was
the business that absorbed his talents and time. He never stopped work,
and his death, the result of heart failure, occurred as he was prepared
to go to his office.
During a career of a half century he naturally became associated
with many other men conspicuous in American business affairs. Some
of these who were his close friends were James B. Gowan, former
president of the Reading Railroad, the late George F. Baer, another
president of that road, Joshua Rhoades, R. T. Crane, and other great
Americans. While he was president of the Reading Iron Works he
acted in concert with Mr. Gowan, then president of the Reading Rail-
road, in crushing the notorious "MoUie Maguires," then enacting a
career of turbulence and riot in the eastern iron and coal district.
When the American Society of Civil Engineers was formed Mr.
Coit was elected a charter member. His interest in his business was
second only to his interest in his home, and his name was sought by
many clubs and societies for an honored place on their list of member-
ship.
Mr. Coit was survived by his widow, still a resident of Los Angeles,
and four children. The youngest is Henry A. Coit, prominent in Los
Angeles. The oldest son is Griffith Coit, whose home is at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The two daughters are Miss Helen and Miss Ruth Coit,
the former a resident of Los Angeles. Miss Ruth Coit has long been
prominent as an educator and scholar, and since 1907 has been head
of the Cambridge School for Girls in Massachusetts.
Henry Augustus Coit. It would be difficult to classify Mr. Coit as
a business man. His energies and talents have been devoted to many
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important financial and industrial affairs of the west and also the east.
For several years he was one of the leading men in the promotion and
building of independent telephone plants in the Middle West. He has
been interested in railroad building, banking and has been an industrial
promotor, and his name associated with half a dozen or more large
enterprises in Southern California.
Mr. Coit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1875,
son of Edward Woolsey and Caroline M. (Moore) Coit. Mr. Coit has
many of the versatile gifts and, talents which have distinguished his
family. His father was at one time president of the Reading Iron
Works at Reading, Pennsylvania, was a charter member of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, and died at Los Angeles in September,
1915. A great-uncle of Henry A. Coit, whose name he bears, intro-
duced Italian grand opera to America. His uncle was founder and head
of the St. Paul School at Concord, New Hampshire. A sister of the
Los Angeles financier is Miss Ruth Coit, foi* many years head of the
Cambridge School for Girls at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Coit's
mother is still living at Los Angeles.
Henry A. Coit acquired his early education in private schools at
Philadelphia, also with private tutors, attended Smith's Academy at
St. Louis, and from 1893 to 1895 was a student in Washington Uni-
versity at St. Louis, where he distinguished himself in athletics, particu-
larly in football.
On leaving college he became a broker in crude drugs, and after
a year or more bought an interest in the Missouri Telephone Manufac-
turing Company, serving as sales manager. In 1897 with some prominent
St. Louis business men as his associates he organized the Telephone
Exchange and Construction Company; and was president of this or-
ganization, formed for the purpose of building telephone exchanges
and long distance lines. During the next three years they built and
operated a number of large exchanges, one of them at Terre Haute,
Indiana, being at that time the largest independent telephone exchange
in the country. This company while Mr. Coit was associated with it
was instrumental in giving many small cities and towns modern means
of communication. In 1900 Mr. Coit retired to engage in other lines
of business. In 1902 he was associated with Paul D. Cable in the trans-
formation of the Santa Fe line between Las Vegas and Las Vegas Hot
Springs in New Mexico into an electric interurban road. This was
the first line of that kind in the west. Before it was completed he came
to California and in 1904 moved to Los Angeles and opened brokerage
offices, gradually specializing in the underwriting of financial enterprises.
, In 1907 he organized the Burbank State Bank at Burbank. Two
years later associated with Louis J. Wilde he organized the Federal
Building Company at San Diego, erecting the American National Bank
Building, an eleven story structure. The same year acting for Los
Angeles capitalists he bought the Bank of Southern California, becom-
ing secretary and director of the institution. This was sold in 1911 and
subsequently became merged with the Home Savings Bank. While with
this institution Mr. Coit organized the Yucaipe Land and Water Company,
owning several thousand acres of ranch land in the Yucaipe Valley of
California. In 1910 he was agent for the Southern California Cement
Company, now the Riverside Portland Cement Company, in the sale
of its underwritten bonds. He also helped finance Tejunca Water and
Power Company, which was abandoned at the outbreak of the war.
In 1912 he organized and financed the Oxnard Eucalyptus Mills at Ox-
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nard California, the first mill in the United States to utilize on a com-
mercial scale eucalyptus timber — subsequently sold to other interests.
Mr. Coit organized and is now connected with the Marine Cor-
poration as its president. In the spring of 1918 he with others bought
a boat, the "Bayocean," and put it in commission in Mexican trade.
The government took it over, however, and made a gunboat out of it
and it is still doing duty with the navy.
Mr. Coit spent the summer and fall of 1919 in the Northwest
and as active head of the Marine Corporation opened offices in Seattle,
Washington, where his company has established itself as underwriters
of Marine Equipment Securities. They have correspondents and con-
nections with some of the leading investment banking houses through-
out the East and IMr. Coit has already brought to a successful con-
clusion the underwriting of securities against ten large steel vessels
which will operate out of Pacific Coast ports. It is the purpose of
this active concern to take an important hand in the upbuilding of our
growing American Merchants Marine and through Mr. Coit's company
and its allied interests there are planlied not less than twenty-five steel
ships for deliver}' within the next twelve months. The financing of
these vessels will be done through Mr. Coit's organization.
September 21, 1912, at Los Angeles Mr. Coit married Kathryne
Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Coit share many literary tastes. She is a
member and director and treasurer of the Galpin Shakespeare Club.
Mr. Coit has given much of his leisure time to the pleasures of his
extensive library, and since 1912 has written two plays, one "War's
End," and the other "The Arbitrators," a three-act drama dealing with
psychological situations, now being published by Richard G. Eager in
Boston. Mr. Coit is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and
other social and business organizations. He and his wife have one
daughter, Catherine McLaran, born at Los Angeles.
Miss Agnes Woodward, whose unique talents have brought her
recognized position in the artistic world, has been a resident of Southern
California for about fifteen years. She was born in Waterloo, New
York, a daughter of the late Surgeon-General Charles Meredyth Wood-
ward, prominent in military and railroad circles. Her mother was
Martha L. MacGIashan.
In 1909 Miss Woodward founded a novel and unique institution
called "The California School of Artistic Whistling." After coming
from the East to Los Angeles she occupied her time teaching privately
and continuing her studies along constructive lines, specializing on bird
notes. From both parents came her unusual musical ability.
Miss Woodward was graduated from the schools of Tecumseh,
Michigan, and the Thomas Normal Training School of Music of Detroit.
She also spent two years in vocal training and vocal sight reading at
the Detroit Conservatory of Music. She has whistled since she was
thirteen, but did not take special training along this line until after she
had been a student at the Detroit Conservatory. For some time her
work was directed by an instructor who taught whistling in plain tones,
staccato scales, etc. However, this arti.-st's talent is largely native and
self-developed, and particularly her bird tones, which she has learned
from the birds of California singing to her from the tree tops. Her
finest notes are derived from the songs of the mocking bird and the
meadow lark. She has acquired many trills and warbles which she has
reproduced and adapted to musical selections. Each piece of music is
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especially marked by her with characters and appropriate names, a few
of them being here noted : Chirps, reverses, hewies, whitchas, hedalas,
cudalees, echews, lupees, thnipees, quittas, quitchaquias, etc.
Miss Woodward has the only whistling school in America and the
only whistling chorus. Both are original id:as, and the latter has
proven a star attraction at many conventions and entertainments. Her
school enrolls pupils from nearly every state in the Union, and from
Canada and far-oit New Zealand.
In 1912 was held at Los Angeles "The Land Show Beautiful of
America," which lasted two weeks. Miss Woodward, with her chorus
of forty young ladies, was one of the leading features. Creatore's Band
and a large chorus trained by Thomas Taylor Drill were the other
musical attractions. At the close of the show Miss Woodward was
presented with a gold medal by the Realty Board of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times has said of her: "Miss Woodward is a
past master of the art of whistling and gave some delicately pretty
numbers." The well-known Pacific Coast Impresario Behymer (to
quote only one other of the many press notices) said: "As an exponent
of the art of whistling, I consider Miss Agnes Woodward one of the
finest in the country. Her pupils whistle with brilliancy, sweetness and
artistic finish. It is a privilege to recommend her as a teacher and her
pupils as competent to appear on any program."
Percy Vernon Hammon is a Los Angeles lawyer of established
practice and influential connections and has been a resident of Cali-
fornia since 1895.
He was born at Spring Hill, Iowa, August 28, 1873, son of John
Calhoun and Emma E. (Studley) Hammon. When he was a boy his
parents moved to Kansas and he acquired his education in the public
schools of that State. He graduated from the Topeka High School
with the class of 1895, and in the same year came to California. After
some varied experiences, and some active participation in local pol tics,
Mr. Hammon took up the study of law, and graduated in 1907 with the
degree LL.B. from the University of Southern California. He was
admitted to the California bar by the District Court of Appeals for
the Second District of Los Angeles in 1906, and to the United States
Circuit and District Courts for the Southern District of California the
same year. From 1907 he has been professor of criminal law and
criminal procedure in the State University of Southern California Law
School.
Mr. Hammon served as a member of the Board of Education of
Los Angeles from 1903 to 1905, as a member of the City Council from
1905 to 1907, and represented the seventy-fifth district in the State
Assembly from 1907 to 1910. In 1907 he was appointed deputy district
attorney of Los Angeles County. He is now engaged in the general
practice of law with offices in the Investment Building.
Mr. Hammon is affiliated with the Masons, Lodge No. 99, of the
Elks, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, and is a
member of the City Club, Los Angeles County Bar Association and Cali-
fornia State Bar Association. In politics he is a republican, April 22,
1908, he married Miss Mabel Lenore Adams.
I
Herman Heinsch was a really notable figure in Los Angeles
btfsiness circles in the pioneer period of the city. He came to Los
Angeles in 1857, when there was little here except the foundation laid
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during the Spanish and Mexican regime. He was a good business man,
was prosperous in his affairs, did much to develop' the city in a building
way, and had many traits and characteristics that made him fast friends
among the old timers.
He was born in Launberg, Prussia, in 1834, and left Germany
when about nineteen years of age to escape the burdens of military con-
scription and service. He lived in London several months before com-
ing to the United States. He landed at New York and when he came
to Los Angeles he came by the way of Panama.
While in his native land he had become proficient in music and
the languages, and throughout his business career he was known as a
man of broad culture. At Los Angeles he engaged in the harness
and saddler}' business, an industrj' continued after his death by one of
his sons.
In 1869 he erected the Heinsch Building at the corner of Com-
mercial and Los Angeles streets. As late as 1876 this was in the shop-
ping district. The old building is still standing after half a century,
though no longer owned by the Heinsch heirs. Herman Heinsch and
Dr. Joseph Kurtz also erected the brick building opposite the Baker
block on South Main street, and this property has since been sold by
the family. He owned several other valuable pieces of property in Los
Angeles.
After a prosperous career Mr. Heinsch passed away at Los Angeles,
January 13, 1883, at the age of forty-nine. He married in Los Angeles,
March 8, 1863, Miss Mary Happ. She died April 14, 1907, aged sixty-
three. Mr. Heinsch was a member of the old California Club when the
club rooms were in the Baker Block on South Main street.
He was the father of four children : Herman W., who died in New
York City in October, 1906, at the age of forty-three, having been born in
that city in 1863, and having succeeded his father in the saddlery and
harness business. Theresa M. Dorris, wife of Charles W. Dorris, of
San Francisco; R. C. Heinsch, a sketch of whose career follows; and
Martha F., wife of G. H. Wigmore. of Los .A.ngeles.
Rudolph Charles Heinsch is son of the late Herman Heinsch,
one of the interesting pioneers and business builders of Los Angeles,
whose career is sketched above. A native of Los Angeles, Rudolph
Charles Heinsch has had an active business career of more than thirty
years, and is now head of the R. C. Heinsch & Company, general insur-
ance, with offices in the Haas Building at Los Angeles.
He was born August 5, 1867, graduated from the Los Angeles
High School in 1884, and also took the mining course at the University
of Nevada. He entered business as an employe of Wells Fargo & Com-
pany, express, and was with that corporation nearly twenty years in
Nevada and San Francisco. For some years he had charge of the express
messengers on the road, and eventually became Wells Fargo agent at
Virginia City, Nevada. His business required his residence at San
Francisco from 1896 to 1899, and from the latter date until 1907 he
was in Nevada.
Returning to Los Angeles in 1907, Mr. Heinsch engaged in busi-
ness as an insurance man. From 1909 to 1911 he was associated with
the late Sidney A. Butler, and after that was president of the Heinsch-
Butler Company until. 1914. Since the latter year his business has
been conducted as R. C. Heinsch & Company, of which he is manager
and proprietor. He has an organization with splendid facilities for
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service for fire, automobile, burglary, accident and other lines of insur-
ance, and fidelity and contractors' bonds.
Mr. Heinsch is a republican voter, a Royal Arch Mason and an Elk.
August 31, 1896, at San Francisco, he married Marie Chonita
Martin, daughter of Robert and Margaret A. Martin. Her father
came to California in 1849, and for many years was a rancher. Her
mother who came to this state in 1853 is still living, a resident of Los
Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Heinsch have one son, Rupert Lloyd Heinsch,
who is associated with his father in the general insurance business. He
was born at San Francisco and was educated in the Los Angeles High
School and the Leland Stanford University. In July, 1915, he married
Esther Runyan Stevens, daughter of Henry J. and Florence Runyon
Stevens. They have one daughter, Virginia, born in Los Angeles.
Bradner Wells Lee. While he has never sought nor held an
elective or remunerative public office during his residence in California
for forty years, there are few of the larger and more important move-
ments in the life and affairs of Los Angeles and this part of the state
with \vhich Bradner Wells Lee has not been identified in some character-
istically forceful and influential manner. He long since attained an
impregnable position as a lawyer and his time and talents have been
generously bestowed upon many phases of the public welfare.
Mr. Lee was born at East Groveland, New York, May 4, 1850,
son of David Richard and Elizabeth Northrum (Wells) Lee. His great-
grandfather, Thomas Lee, served with the rank of captain in the Fifth
New York Continental Line during the war of the Revolution.
Educated in public schools and by private study in his native town,
Mr. Lee prepared himself for the bar under the direction of his noted
uncle. Colonel G. Wiley Wells, one of the most prominent lawyers in
the South and long a leader in the bar of Los Angeles. Colonel Wells
was for two terms United States district attorney for the Northern
District of Mississippi, represented the Second Mississippi District in
the Forty-fourth Congress, and was United States consul general at
Shanghai, China. Mr. Lee pursued his studies in his »uncle's office at
Holly Springs, Mississippi, and was admitted to the bar in that state in
1871, and shortly afterwards was appointed assistant LTnited States dis-
trict attorney for Northern Mississippi. He held that office until 1879.
In 1875, by direction of the United States attorney general, he was also
acting United States district attorney, and in the same year was ad-
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court, District of Columbia.
Mr. Lee came to Los Angeles in March, 1879. He was admitted
to practice in the State Supreme Courfon the 30th of April in that year.
For a time he was managing clerk in the law office of Brunson & Wells.
In 1883 he became a member of the firm of Brunson. Wells & Lee, which
two years later was changed to Wells, VanDyke & Lee. Successive
changes in the membership made the firm Wells, Guthrie & Lee. Wells,
Monroe & Lee, Wells & Lee, and it became Wells, Works & Lee in 1896
upon the entry of Judge John D. Works, late United States senator from
California. Ill health compelled the retirement of Colonel Wells in 1896,
after which the firm was Works & Lee, and in 1901 it became Works,
Lee & Works. In 1908 Mr. Lee withdrew to practice alone, but in 1912
associated with himself his two sons, Bradner W. Jr. and Kenyon F. Lee.
During all these years Mr. Lee has been associated with and actively
participated in much of the important litigation involving water rights,
corporations and other matters of a civil nature. He served as attorney
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for the executor of the estate of E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, who died in
1909, until the final settlement of the estate, one of the largest ever
probated in California. The estate was settled in 1913. Mr. Lee was a
director and general counsel of the City and County Bank of Los Angeles
from its organization in 1908 to 1913. He was a director and vice
president of the Murphy Oil Company for several years and has been its
general counsel since organization. In 1887 he was admitted to the
United States Circuit Court, and the following year to the United States
District Court, and in 1914 to the United States Supreme Court. In
1895 he declined an offer from Governor Pardee to appoint him to the
Superior bench of Los Angeles County. Mr. Lee owns the largest pri-
vate law library in the Southwest, known as the Wells Law Library
of over six thousand volumes, formerly the property of his uncle, to
which he has made many accessions.
As a member of the Chamber of Commerce since 1894, Mr. Lee
served for many years on its Law and its Harbor Committee, from 1910
to 1915 he was director and chairman of the Law Committee, and its
second vice president in 1916.
In 1911 he was chairman of the Citizens Committee, composed of
a hundred business and professional men, and led the campaign of that
year which defeated the attempt of the Socialist party to gain control of
the city government. He was a member of the Municipal Conference
Committee and Executive Committee in the mayoralty campaign of 1913 ;
also member of the Republican State Central Committee from 1916 to
1920.
Despite his aversion to office holding, Mr. Lee has long been reckoned
as one of the most prominent republicans in California. He served as
a delegate to the various republican state, county and city conventions
from 1888 to 1910. He served as chairman of the Republican County
Central Committee from 1896 to 1910; from 1902 to 1904 was member
of the Executive Committee and the Campaign Committee of the Re-
publican State Central Committee; in 1906 was chairman of the Los
Angeles County Republican Convention, and in 1916 was elected and
served as an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention
in Chicago.
Mr. Lee served continuously as a trustee of the California State
Library from 1897 to 1917. In 1900 he was a delegate to the National
Forestry and Irrigation Convention at Chicago. As a member of the
American Bar Association he served on its General Council 1916-17, on
its Local Council 1917-19, and as vice president from. California 1919-20,
and as a member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uni-
form State Laws 1916-20. He served on the Executive Committee 1917-
19, and was elected president for 1919-20 of the California State Bar
Association. He is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association, the
Southwestern Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the
California Society Sons of the Revolution, which he served as director
and treasurer 1894-1912, director and vice president 1912-13, and as
president in 1913-15. He is a member of the New York Society of
Southern California. A charter member of the California Commandery
Order of Foreign Wars since 1896, he served as its judge advocate and
also vice commander for several terms, and again as judge advocate in
1919. Mr. Lee is a charter member of the California Society of Colonial
Wars, which he served as director, first historian, chairman of member-
ship committee, chancellor from 1895, and as deputy governor in 1914-15,
and as governor 1916-18. He is a member of the California Club, the
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Wiltshire Country Club, a member and former director of the Jonathan
Club of Los Angeles, and a member of the Union League Club. He is
a Knight Templar Mason, and Shriner, and a member of the Presby-
terian Church.
At Philadelphia, October 16, 1883. he married Helena Farrar. Her
father. Colonel William Humphrey Farrar, was descended from one of
the oldest colonial families in Massachusetts, many of whose members
achieved distinction in colonial and revolutionary afifairs, at the bar,
upon the bench, and as college professors. Colonel Farrar, who enjoyed
a front rank among the bar of Washington city, received his legal train-
ing under the distinguished lawyer and statesman, Hon. Daniel Webster
and Hon. Caleb Cushing, former attorney general of the United States.
The two sons and only children of Mr. and Mrs. Lee have already
been named. Both were educated at Harvard Military School, Stan-
ford University and the University of Southern California Law School,
and were admitted to the bar in 1912. At that time they became asso-
ciated with their father in practice.
Bradner W. Lee Jr., immediately after the declaration of war with
Germany, enrolled in the Naval Militia of California, receiving a com-
mission as ensign, and with that organization was ordered into active
service with the United States Navy, departing for San Francisco during
the first week in April, 1917. There he was enrolled in the navy as a
National - Naval Volunteer officer, and immediately detached from his
command and assigned to duty as an ensign on the Destroyer Paul Jones,
which proceeded to sea and through the Panama Canal, joining the
Atlantic fleet in July following. This destroyer was actively engaged in
convoy and patrol duty m Atlantic waters throughout the war. By act
of Congress, the National Naval Volunteers were transferred to the
Naval Reserves, Class 2. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior
grade) with rank from July 1. 1918, serving on the same ship twenty-
seven months until July 1, 1919, when he was released to inactive duty,
being then executive officer, in which capacity he had served for several
months. He returned to his home, resuming his professional duties in
the firm, but is still an officer in the United States Naval Reserve, subject
to call whenever needed.
Walter R. Stevenson. The entire Los Angeles bar felt a sense
of loss at the death of Walter R. Stevenson, who in a few brief years
had formed splendid connections with the professional and civic life of
the city and had earned some of the more substantial honors of the law.
He was born at Omaha, Nebraska, November 8, 1892, son of George
W. and Agnes (Elstro) Stevenson. George W. Stevenson was born in
Wayne county, Indiana, March 1, 1858. He represented an old and
prominent family of eastern Indiana. His ancestry went back to George
Stevenson, who was born in 1757, and with five of his brothers served
in one company in the war of the revolution. George Stevenson located
in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1807, when that was part of the extreme
western frontier. He was the great-grandfather of George W. Steven-
son, father of the Los Angeles lawyer. George W. Stevenson after a
public school education learned the carpenter's trade and also engaged
in farming. In 1903 he came to Los Angeles and followed his trade
in this city until 1917, when he removed to Riverside, where he has
since continued farming. He and his wife had seven children.
Walter H. Stevenson first attended school in Wayne County, Indi-
ana, and was eleven years of age when brought to Los Angeles by his
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parents. He graduated from high school in 1913 and then entered the
University of Southern California, graduating LL. B. in June, 1916.
He entered active practice and in April, 1917, formed an association
with Judge Waldo "Vork. Mr. Stevenson was attorney for the Children's
Home Society and secretary of the City Club ; a member of the Uni-
versity Club and the Union League Club; a progressive republican and
a member of the Baptist church of Hollywood.
December 26, 1914, at Los Angeles, he married Henriette Gill,
daughter of Thomas H. Gill, who came to Los Angeles in 1&80, and
for nearly forty years has been a successful building contractor. Mr.,
and Mrs. Stevenson have two children, Robert, born in 1916, and Carl,
born in 1918.
Monroe H. Conlee is a native son of California, is widely known
as a successful court reporter and as an instructor in the art of short-
hand reporting.
Mr. Conlee was born at Santa Ana, California, April 12, 1878, son
of James R. and Hattie E. (Straw) Conlee. His father came to Cali-
fornia in 1«71 as a Methodist minister. In 1884 he resigned his pas-
torate and engaged in newspaper work, in which he remained until he
retired in 1913.
At the very beginning of his school career, Monroe H. Conlee
attended the Los Angeles public schools. After three years' of high
school work he entered the Polytechnic High School. From Polytechnic
he was engaged by the Official Reporters of the Superior Court as an
amanuensis, and soon developed such proficiency in the art ot phonog-
raphy that he has made it his life profession. For two years (1900-01)
he served under Civil Service in the United States Navy Department
at Mare Island. Subsequently (December 1, 1902) he was appointed
official reporter of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County by JuJge
Waldo M. York, which position he still holds.
Obviously twenty years of work and experience constitute Mr. Con-
lee an authority on many branches of commercial practice, especially in
the technique of shorthand writing and verbatim reporting. From Mr.
Coulee's private instruction classes have come many expert law stenog-
raphers, successful amanuenses in state and county service, and several
shorthand reporters. His private instruction classes are conducted at
the Modern Business College, Rooms 308-320 Byrne Building, corner
of Third and Broadway, Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Mr. Conke is a member of Sunset Lodge, F. & A. M., of Ramona
Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, Knights of the Maccabees,
California Shorthaijd Reporters Association, of which he is a past presi-
dent, and National Shorthand Reporters Association. He is also a mem-
ber of the Union Leaguj Club, and is a republican in politics.
August 4, 1903, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Mabel Stone. They
have four children: Waldo Monroe, born in 1906; Keith Stone, born in
1909, both of these sons being stud.^nts in the public schools of South
Pasadena ; and Catherine and Jeanette, twins, born November 20, 1916.
Lewis Allen Crisler Sk. came to the West from Cincinnati, Ohio,
in 1899, and to Los Angeles, California, in 1901. Engaging in the stock
and bond business in 1906, he became a member of the Los Angeles-
Nevada Stock Exchange. In 1909 this stock exchange was dissolved and
he then becairn: a member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, on whose
Board of Governors he has served for a number of years.
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Mr. Crisler is a descendant of a large number of the first families
of Culpeper County, Dominion of Virginia, also of some of the oldest
and most prominent New England colonial families, amongst whom the
following were some of the founders: William Leverich, who received
the degrees of A. B. and A. M. at Emanuel College, Cambridge, Eng-
land, in 1625-1629, coming from London to Salem, Massachusetts, in
the ship James, October 10, 1633. Joseph Reeder I, who came from
London, England, to Newton Township, I-X>ng Island, in 1650. Hugh
Tingle, who came in the ship "Supply" from Whitby, England, to Somer-
set County, Maryland, in 1668. Francis Gano (Ganeaux), who came
from France to New Rochelle, New York, in 1686, and Captain Nathaniel
Britton (Colonial Wars), who was in Richmond County, Staten Island,
in 1679, from England, and also Lieutenant Christopher Zimmerman
(Colonial Wars), who came from Alsace to the Dominion of Virginia in
1717. All of Mr. Crisler's immigrant ancestors came to America some
years prior to the Revolutionarj- war.
He was born in Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, August 29, 1878,
later moving with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, and then to Cincin-
nati, Ohio.
Tlie Crisler family is now m the seventh generation in America.
The first generation was represented by Deobold Christler (Colonial
Wars), who came to the Dominion of Virginia from Saxony about
1717, and died in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1776. He married
Rosina Gaar, born in Bavaria, August 11, 1713. She came to the
Dominion of Virginia in 1732 with her parents, Andreas Gar, a weaver
(born June 14, 1685), and Eve Seidelmann.
The second generation : Leonard Christler (Revolutionary war)
was born in Virginia .md died in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1824.
He married Margaret Clore in \'irginia. She was the daughter of
John Clore and Dorothy Cafer.
Third generation : Lewis Crisler was born in Madison County,
Virginia, June 1, 1773, and died in Shelby County, Indiana, May 19, 1843.
He married his second wife, Mary (Polly) Zimmerman, August 18,
1806, in Boone County, Kentucky. She was born April 4, 1778, in
Culpeper County, Virginia, and was the daughter of Christopher Zim-
merman III (Revolutionary war) and Mary Tanner.
Benjamin Allen Crisler of the fourth generation was born in Boone
County, Kentucky, February 21, 1815, and died in Chicago, Illinois,
October 18, 1896. He married Elizabeth Anne French, in Shelby County,
Indiana, October 18, 1835. She was the daughter of Daniel French
(born August 9. 1791, in New Jersey, and married February 25, 1819)
and Amy Tingle (born May 10, 1798, in Warren founty, Ohio), and
was born in Lebanon, Ohio, April 18, 1820, and died at Chicago, Illinois,
November 6, 1899.
Fifth generation : Allen Verden Crisler ( father of Lewis Allen
Crisler Sr.) was born in Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, September
15, 1852, and now resides near Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He married Clara
Conner in New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, October 10,
1877. She was born in New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, No-
vember 29, 1848, and died in Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1918.
She was the daughter of Captain Andrew Lewis Conner and Mars-
Chapman Jeffries.
The immigrant Conner was Arthur Conner, bom in Ireland in 1739,
and died in New Richmond, Ohio, October 27, 1822. His wife was
Mary Ware or Wyre, who was born in Ireland and died in Pennsylvania.
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He first settled in Pennsylvania, later moving to Campbell County, Ken-
tucky. His son, Andrew Conner (War of 1812), was born in Ireland,
Apri'l 28, 1765, and died in New Richmond, Ohio, August 28, 1850. He
married a widow, Elizabeth Pike (Lewis), who was born in Delaware
and died in New Richmond. Ohio, October 26, 1821. Third generation:
Captain Andrew Lewis Conner, born in Campbell County. Kentucky, No-
vember 15, 1811, died in New Richmond. Ohio. May 25, 1891. He mar-
ried Mary Chapman Jeffries in New Richmond, Ohio, July 21, 1833. She
was born March 16, 1816, in Auburn, New York, and moved to New
Richmond, Ohio, in 1823, where she died November 18, 1906. She w,as
the daughter of John Chapman Jeffries, born in Haddonfield. Camden
County, New Tersev, and Deborah Starkweather, born in Auburn. New
York.'
Lewis Allen Crisler Sr. received his education at Hughes, in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. He married Edna June Cooke in Los Angeles, California,
November 15, 1905. She was born in Montrose, South Dakota, June 23,
1885, and is the daughter of Wilham Henry H. Cooke (born in Pough-
keepsie. New York, April 1. 1840. died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
December 18. 1893), and Alena Margaret Dockstader (born in Mont-
gomery County, New York. August 31, 1847). They have one son.
Lewis Allen Crisler. Jr.. born in Los Angeles. California. July 13. 1909.
George K. Home, the chief of police of Los Angeles, is in his present
oflice and profession not through the chance of politics or by reason of
haphazard fate or circumstance. A number of years ago he took up
detective work as a free personal choice, though at that time he was
successful in other lines of business. He has been connected with the
police and detective departments of Los Angeles for many years, and
it is a matter of general satisfaction that a man of such eminent qualifica-
tions is head of the police department today.
Mr. Home was born in Mercer County, Illinois, January 19, 1879,
a son of John R. and Mary (McCurdy) Home. His father, who was
born in Mercer County July 7. 1846. was educated in the public schools
and Monmouth College, was a merchant, later a building contractor,
both in Mercer and Henderson Counties, Illinois, and in 1880 went to
Ottawa, Kansas, and spent about a year opening coal mines. From
there he came to Los Vngeles and was one of the earliest contractors
operating in the drilling of oil wells in Southern California. For a num-
ber of years he was associated with E. L. Doheny and put down some
of the first wells for that great oil magnate. Since 1913 he has lived
retired. John R. Home and wife were married in Mercer County,
Illinois, and they have two living children, George K. and Paul, both of
Los Angeles.
George K. Home was about two years old when his parents came
to Los Angeles. He attended grammar and high schools to the age of
eighteen, but already had acquired much practical business experience;
When ten years old he became a vendor of the Times and Herald news-
papers in mornings and evenings and during vacations. For one or two
vacations he also worked for his father in oil well flrilling. and at the
age of eighteen, on leaving school, he took up that as his regular voca-
tion. He first became connected with the police department as patrol-
man at the age of twenty-five. After two and a half years he took a
leave of absence and went to Tampico, Mexico, where he had charge
of an outfit developing an oil field for the Pennsylvania Oil Company
of Mexico. After seven months he brought in a large gusher for that
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company and then returned to Los Angeles. Resuming his work with
the police department, he was acting detective seven months, was then
made a regular detective, and in the spring of 1913 was promoted to
detective sergeant. The following winter he was made inspector of
police at headquarters, and in January, 1915, became first deputy chief
of police, and in January, 1916, made detective lieutenant. May 1, 1917,
afti.r an examination, he wai appointed captain of detectives and still
holds that title and responsibility. His elevation to the post of chief of
police came at the hands of Mayor M. P. Snyder in July, 1919.
Mr. Home is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, an Elk, Woodmen
of the World and Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Union League
Club, a republican in politics, and belongs to the Congregational Church.
At Los Angeles, January 27, 1899, he married Alice M. Hanly. Her
father was George T. Hanly, the pioneer tea and coffee merchant of Los
Angeles. Mr. and Airs. Home have four children: G. DeForest, born
in 1900, is a student in Pomona College; Paul, born in 1903, attending
the Los Ai^geles High School ; Thais Marian, bom in 1910, and Thomas,
born in 1916.
Robert Roodhouse is a Los Angeles business man whose career is
noteworthy not only because he is identified with one of the essential
industries of the city, but also because he is a veteran in experience in
one line of manufacture, having followed it consecutively since early
youth, and through all the grades of apprenticeship, journeyman, super-
intendent and executive officer.
Mr. Roodhouse was born in Hamilton, Ontario, September 25,
1870, son of Albert Robert and Annie (Taylor) Roodhouse. L'p to
the age of sixteen he attended grammar and high school. Then followed
three years of experience in a rolling mill. His permanent career began
with his apprenticeship with the McClarj' Manufacturing Company of
London, Ontario. This company manufactured enameled kitchenware,
and with the enameling and stamping industry Mr. Roodhouse has been
identified ever since. After four years with the McClary Company he
went to Canadaigua, New York, and for two and a half years was
enamel dipper for the List Manufacturing Company, a concern manu-
facturing similar products to the McClary Company. His next location
was at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he was similarly employed by
the Newcastle Stamping Company two years. Returning to Canada, he
was dipper with the Kemp Manufacturing Company at Toronto six
months, and then accepted an opportunity to work in the same capacity
with the Royal Enameling and Alanufacturing Company at Desplaines,
Illinois, three years. This service was interrupt, d by eight months with
the National Enameling Company at Cincinnati, followed by employ-
ment one year in the same capacity with the Spellacy-Raiff Company
at Coshocton, Ohio, after which he returned to the Royal Enameling and
Manufacturing Company as Desplames for a year.
Mr. Roodhouse came west to Los Angeles to enter the service of the
California Metal Enameling Company as enani.l mixer. In 1914 he
was elected vice president, superintendent and director of this large
concern, whose manufactured products are sold all over the west coast.
Rosamond C. Harker is proprietor of a growing and much appre-
ciated business. The Rosemary Beauty Shop, located in the Brack Shops
in Los Angeles. "Where there is a will there is a way" is well exem-
plified by ■ Miss Harker's success, since the recognition paid her skill
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proves that her qualifications are exceptional, though she had no previ-
ous training for her present line of business.
However, she is a thorough business woman. She was born at
Chillicothe, Missouri, and acquired her early education in the public
. schools there, and after graduating from high school attended Camp-
bell University at Holton, Kansas. Returning from college she lived at
home with her parents.
Her father was Major Garrison Harker who made a gallant record
with the Second Missouri Cavalry during the Civil war and was wounded
in the last year of that struggle. He died in 1896. Miss Harker lived
in the home in which she was born until with her mother she came to
California in 1909. In Missouri her father was "land poor" but they
managed to save the home and grounds. Miss Harker occupied her
time in working in the clubs of which she was a member, in the Epis-
copal church, in which she was active in the Literarj^ Club, and was
president and youngest member for four years of the Women's Relief
Corps. When the Soldiers Home was built the corps of which she
was then president furnished a memorial room and Miss Harker and
family furnished a room in memory of her father.
After coming to California Miss Harker worked for a time in a
physician's office and later was invited to open up the hair goods depart-
ment at the Coulter Dry Goods Company and from that experience
established parlors of her own, first in the Y. W. C. A. Building and
then in the Brack Shops. She is a member of the Business Woman's
Civic Club and for six years was president of the Y. W. C. A., and is a
member of the Adelphian Club, Clara Barton Camp of the Daughters of
Veterans.
Capt. Samuel H. Watson is senior member of the firm Watson
& Watson, loans and investments, in the Laughlin Building, and is also
president of The Hollywood Cemetery Association. He has been a
constructive factor in real estate and business development in Los Angeles
for the past ten years. He was a man of mature business experience and
achievement long before he came to Los Angeles. These achievements
have insured his lasting recognition among the upbuilders and benefac-
tors of one of the leading small cities of southern Illinois, Mount Ver-
non, where he spent the greater part of his life and where a large business
built up by him still thrives and is under the active management of his
son.
Captain Watson's grandfather was Dr. John Watson, a native of
Maryland, who as a youth was taken by his parents to Virginia. He
grew up and was educated in Old Virginia, and supplemented his studies
under a private physician by a course in the Jefferson Medical College
at Philadelphia from which he graduated. He was a very hard work-
ing and able physician, and had the distinction of being the first regular
physician to practice medicine in Jefl'erson County, Illinois. About l803
he married Frances Pace. In 1811 he moved his family to Bourbon
County, Kentucky, subsequently to Pendleton County that state, and
in 1821 made the journey overland to Jefferson County, Illinois. In a
two-horse wagon besides his wife and children, he carried all his earthly
possessions. It was a typical pioneer expedition, through a country of
heavy woods, filled with wild animals, and it required stout hearts to
settle in such a new country as Jefferson County, Illinois, was at that
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time. Doctor Watson lived for a year on a farm at what is known as
Mulberry Hill, and then changed his residence to a farm on the Van-
dalia highway, a mile and a half from Mount Vernon. For many years
he divided his time between farming and the practice of medicine, his
services in a professional capacity being in great demand, especially
until other physicians came into the county. Frequently he would ride
horseback for fifty or perhaps a hundred miles from his home. Dr.
Watson died June 3, 1845. He was of Welsh ancestry.
His son John H. Watson, was born in Virginia, in 1805. He was
six years of age when taken to Kentucky, and sixteen when the family
arrived in Jefferson county, Illinois. He had only such advantages as
could be acquired in the subscription schools, in the early part of the
nineteenth century. None the less he became a successful business
man and highly influential citizen. His brother Joel F. Watson was at
one time the wealthiest man in Jefferson County, Illinois. John H.
Watson, in 1827, married Miss Elizabeth Rankin. For several years he
worked as a carpenter and in time built up an extensive business as a
contractor and builder. For twenty-four consecutive years he served as
a justice of the peace and for one term as county treasurer of Jefferson
county. He was a charter member and for many years a diligent and
generous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mount Vernon.
Politically he was a democrat, as was his father before him, and for
many years was a leader in the party in his county. He died September
26, 1860, and was buried under Masonic auspices. His wife, Miss Ran-
kin, was a native of Tennessee, and her family were also pioneers in
Southern Illinois.
One of her nine children was Samuel H. Watson, who was born at
the home of his parents at Mount Vernon, Illinois, November 5, 1838.
He attended the local schools there and at the early age of seven united
with the Methodist church, and has been a faithful member of that
church for seventy-three years. When he was ten years of age he went
to St. Louis, and had a thorough business training as clerk until his
eighteenth year. From that time until 1860 he clerked with a business
house at Tamaroa, Illinois, and then returned to Mount Vernon and
was connected with a mercantile firm until the outbreak of the Civil war.
He was one of the first young men of Jefferson county to volunteer his
services to the government and in the summer of 1861 he became a private
in Company G of the 40th Illinois Infantry. He was promoted to quar-
termaster sergeant, and on April 1, 1862, was made second lieutenant,
the following year was promoted to first lieutenant, and in January, 1863,
was detailed to act as aide on the staff of his commanding general. March
5, 1864, for meritorious conduct he was promoted to captain of his com-
pany. His duties during the latter part of the war were as brigade
inspector. Captain Watson's record as a soldier was such as his descend-
ants may properly cherish. He was with his command through all its
varied campaigns, participating in the battle of Shiloh, siege and capture
of Vicksburg, siege of Knoxville, battles of Missionary Ridge, Jackson,
Mississippi, and the Atlanta campaign and march to the sea under
Sherman.
Following the war Captain Watson was in the drug business for a
short time at Mount Vernon. For about a year and a half he conducted
a clothing store. Leaving his native city he was in business for eleven
years at Ashley, Washington County, Illinois, where he built up a large
business dealing in livestock, handling agricultural implements and
machinery and also as a coal mine operator in that noted coal region
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of southern Illinois. Selling out his interests at Ashley in 1879 he
returned to Mount Vernon and established an implement store, which
in forty years has progressed until it is one of the largest enterprises of
its kind in Southern Illinois. The business for many years has been
both wholesale and retail and also manufacturing. Captain Watson in
time turned over the chief duties of management to his sons Fred P.
and Harry W., and the title of the establishment today is the Fred P.
Watson Company.
Captain Watson paid his first visit to Los Angeles in 1888. He set-
tled here permanently in 1906, and from the first has made careful and
judicious investment in real estate. Handling chiefly his own property,
he and his son have done a large business in buying and selling and in
placing loans and investments.
In March, 1909, Captain Watson bought the controlling interest
in The Hollywood Cemetery Association and is president of that magni-
ficent beauty spot, many of its most beautiful features having been
planned and carried out under Captain Watson's administration. Cap-
tain Watson is also president of the Ojai Valley Oil Petroleum Com-
pany. Fie is a member of Stanton Post of the Grand Army at Los
Angeles and is a Knight Templar Mason. He is one of the members
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, belongs to the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Realty Board, and is
secretary and treasurer of the Cedar Grannis & Mining Company of
Arizona.
His choice of political affiliation was a departure from that of his
ancestry. He began voting as a republican, and for many years was a
party leader in Jefferson County, Illinois. Without solicitation on his
part he was put on the ticket as a candidate for representative, and was
elected by a large majority in a democratic district, carrying that county,
strongly democratic, by an overwhelming vote. He was also a member
of the State Republican Committee as long as he would consent to serve.
In 1891 he was chosen mayor of Mount Vernon. His administration
was conspicuous for inaugurating a plan of improving the streets with
granitoid sidewalks and brick paving, and from his administration dates
the ascendancy of Mount Vernon as one of the best paved cities in south-
ern Illinois. He encountered a tremendous opposition on the part of
many conservative citizens when he paved the public square with brick,
but the opposition of these former years long since changed to gratitude.
For two terms Captain Watson was postmaster of Mount Vernon, and
during his terms was inaugurated the system of city free delivery and
the delivery of mail on various rural routes radiating from Mount
Vernon. Captain Watson also lent his influence and personal capital
to the establishment of several distinctive industries at Mount Vernon,
including the canning and knitting factories, also the Loan and Savings
Bank.
October 1, 1860, Captain Watson married Miss Anna Goetschius,
a native of Massachusetts, daughter of Isaac D. and Elizabeth Goetschius.
both natives of New York State. Captain and Mrs. Watsnn had two
sons, Fred P. and Harry W. Mrs. Watson died December 23, 1911,
and was laid to rest in the beautiful Hollywood Cemetery. On Decem-
ber 23, 1913. Captain Watson married Mrs. Josephine B. Green, of Los
Angeles. His home is at 357 South Alvarado Street.
Harry Walcutt Watson, vice president and secretary of The
Hollywood Cemetery Association, is also associated with his father, Cap-
tain S. H. Watson, whose career is described above in the real estate and
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investment business, and is an official and director in several well known
business organizations.
He was born at Ashley, Illinois, December 16, 1867. and graduated
from the high school of his father's home town, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
He took his college work in the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mr. Watson first came to Los Angeles in 1899, and for six months was
a salesman for J. T. Sheward. After that he was teller in the Uni-
versity Bank at Los Angeles until 1893, and then returned to Mount
Vernon, Illinois, where he and his brother Fred P. engaged in the
wholesale and retail piano business, under the firm name of Watson
Brothers. Mr. Watson continued a member of this prominent firm for
about eighteen years. In 1911 he returned to Los Angeles and took the
active management of The Hollywood Cemetery Association. He is
also one of its stockholders and its vice president and secretary, and
gives much of his time to the affairs of the association.
He is also a director in the Continental National Bank of the Ojai
Valley Petroleum Company, the Commonwealth Home Building and the
Dragon Mining and Development Company. Mr. Watson is a republi-
can, a Shriner, is an officer in Los Angeles Commandery No. 9 of the
Knights Templar, a member of the Elks Lodge at Mount Vernon, Illi-
nois, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Sons of the American
Revolution, Sons of Veterans, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Chamber of
Commerce, Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles Realty
Board, and the Fire Underwriters Board of Los Angeles. He is a
member of the West Adams Street Methodist Episcopal church.
At Los Angeles, December 23, 1899, Mr. Watson married Helen
Widney, daughter of Judge and Mrs. R. M. Widney. Judge Widney
has long been a distinguished figure in the life and affairs of Southern
California and Los Angeles. He laid out the city of Long Beach, built
the railroad to that town and drafted the charter for the city. He also
erected the first house in Santa Monica. He is a prominent jurist and
has long been a factor in public and charitable institutions in his section
of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have two children : Harold G.,
born at Mount Vernon, Illinois, who married Dorothy Emmerson ; and
Widney Watson, born at Los Angeles, who married Forest Hill Bower.
Hollywood Cemetery. x\part from the strong claims and peculiar
interest it makes upon its patrons, Hollywood Cemetery, with its won-
derful landscape effect, the fruition of the plans of one of the ablest
landscape engineers in the United States, Mr. Earnshaw of Cincinnati,
is a spot of remarkable beauty, probably not excelled by any burial park
in the West.
The Hollywood Cemetery Association is a corporation organized
under the California laws July 17, 1899, with capital stock of two hun-
dred thousand dollars. All the original bonds issued in 1899 were paid
twenty years later, and the association has no indebtedness. The organ-
izers were F. W. Samuelson, Homer Laughlin, W. F. Bottsford, I. N.
Van Nuys, H. C. Brown, N. M. Entler and John Freeman. The pres-
ent stockholders are S. H. Watson, president, Harry W. Watson, vice
president and secretary, J. W. Willcox, Basil H. Dejersey and Miss
Ann Andrews, daughter of the late Josias J. Andrews.
This association planned and has perfected the first modern park
plan cemetery in the Los Angeles district. Elaborate provisions and
safeguards have been carried out, so that the interests and desires of
individual patrons might in no wise interfere with the wise and well
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considered scheme for maintaining beauty, dignity and charm of the
cemetery as a whole. Thus while the grounds have become a most
appropriate and tasteful home for the dead, their exterior features reveal
few of the conventional characteristics of old time cemeteries, and impress
the beholder more than anything else as a beautiful memorial park.
In all the buildings the Mission style of architecture has been adhered
to, and all construction material is California granite. At. one of the
entrances is a beautiful chapelj with pipe organ, and in the tower above
has been installed a set of the Vanduzen chimes by the Eliza A. Otis
Memorial Association. Other features of the cemetery administration
provide for non-sectarian interment, permanency of the grounds under
an unlimited charter from the state, and perpetual care for all the lots,
due to a provision whereby approximately a third of the cost of each
lot is set aside in a trust fund for care and improvement. This trust
fund now aggregates $125,000. Besides the art of landscape gardening,
shown in the beautiful driveways, trees and shrubs, there are many
interesting memorials, including the magnificent Otis shaft, one of the
most conspicuous features of the grounds from a distance, and also
the Times Memorial Monument to those who lost their lives in the
wrecking of the Times Building.
The list of lot owners in Hollywood Cemetery include many of
the most prominent and best known people of California, to mention
only a few, Arthur Letts, W. A. Clark, Jr., J- Ross Clark, Thomas E.
Gibbon, Edwin T. Earl, the late Harris Gray Otis, G. J. Griffith, Dr.
Henderson Hayward, L. W. Blinn, W. A. Barker, Rt. Rev. Joseph J.
Johnson, Willis H. Booth, Dr. W. Jarvis Barlow, L. Behymer.
Lyman Frank Baum. Although the career of a literary or pro-
fessional man seldom exhibits any of those striking incidents that seize
upon public feelings and fix attention upon himself, the late Lyman
Frank Baum proved an exception to the rule. From maturity until his
death his career was one of laborious yet enjoyable and contented literary
effort, and the high distinction which he attained was evidence that he
possessed genius of an extraordinary quality. There never has been an
author of juvenile stories who attained wider popularity among children
or who found his way into the hearts and affections of readers of all
ages, as did Mr. Baum. For, although his work was almost exclusively
dedicated to children, there were many of more mature years among his
readers who found keen enjoyment in his delightful whimsicalities, which
enabled them to live over again their own happy childhood, while follow-
ing the adventures of "The Wonderful Wizanl of Oz" and his many
mythical, amusing and entertaining associates.
L. Frank Baum was bom at Chittenango, New York, May 15, 1856,
a son of Benjamin Ward and Cynthia (Stanton) Baum. His father,
one of the earliest oil men, owned rich possessions in the Pennsylvania
fields, and both John D. Rockefeller and John Archbold were at one
time in his employ. Mr. Baum received an academic education at
Syracuse, New York, which was later supplemented by instruction from
a private English tutor.
Wlien the "Wizard of Oz Man" (as he was for many years affec-
tionately called) was but twelve years of age, his father presented him
with a printing press, upon which, for some time, he indulged his literary
tendencies by publishing a paper known as "The Roselawn Home Jour-
nal,' "Roselawn" being the name of his father's estate near Syracuse.
His first public writings were in the line of newspaper work in New
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York, Pennsylvania and Chicago. From 1888 to 1890 he was owner and
editor of the "Saturday Pioneer," at Aberdeen, South Dakota, and from
1897 to 1902 he owned and edited "The Show Window" at Chicago.
Mr. Baum became a playwright early in life, his "Maid of Arran"
having been produced in New York in 1881. In the following year, in
the same, city, appeared "Matches," which was followed in 1884 by
"Kilmorne," produced at Syracuse; in 1885 by "The Queen of Killarney,"
produced at Rochester; in 1902 by "The Wizard of Oz," produced in
Chicago ; in 1905 by "The Woggle Bug," produced in Chicago ; in 1908
and 1909 by the "The Radio Play" (motion pictures of Baum's Fairy
Tales), produced at Chicago and New York, and in 1913 by "The Tik
Tok Man of Oz," produced in Los Angeles.
It was as a writer, however, more than as a playwright, that Mr.
Baum is best known. For more than twenty years he wrote children's
and other stories for various magazine-s, including St. Nicholas, Youth's
Companion and others. The possessor of a rare whimsical style that was
of preeminent appeal to children, during his life he took place in the
front rank of writers of juvenile fiction. His first published book was
"Mother Goose in Prose," which appeared in 1897, and the drawings
for this story were the first book illustrations done by Maxfield Parrish.
Its success encouraged Mr. Baum to further efifort, and the next work
to appear from his own pen was "By the Candelabria's Glare," a book
of poems. This work was compiled while the Baums were living in
Chicago. He installed a small printing press in his home, upon which
he printed the hook entirely without assistance, and each one of a
coterie of intimate friends contributed to the manufacture of the book,
donating paper, ink, book ends and even, tha thread used in binding.
Later he wrote another decidedly entertaining volume, "Tamawaca
Folks," woven around friends surrounding his family at a Michigan
summer resort. This was followed by "Father Goose — His Book," and
then by the most famous of all his works, "The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz."
He married, in Fayettville, New York, November 9, 1882, Maud
Gage, whose mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage, wrote considerable woman's
suffrage literature and who was a co-worker with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony in the editing of "The History of Woman's •
Suffrage." Four sons were born of this union : Frank Joslyn, who
served in France as an officer of Heavy Artillery; Robert Stanton, an
officer in the Engineer Corps ; Harry Neal, a resident of Chicago, and
Kenneth Gage of Los Angeles. It was while these sons were still lads
that Mr. Baum conceived the idea which lead to the creation of the Oz
characters. He had been in the habit of telling stories to his children
and those of his neighbors, his favorite tales being fancifully woven
around a wonderful cast-iron man, which later became the famous Tin
Woodman of Oz. From this start the stories grew and developed, and
Mr. Baum occasionally wove in a "scarecrow" or some other odd char-
acter as his prolific fancy dictated. These stories eventually came to
the ears of his friends, who urged him to place them into connected
form and publish them ; and thus came into being the famous series of
Oz stories.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" took the country, as represented by
its juvenile readers, literally by storm. It was followed in chronolog'cal
order by "A New Wonderland," "The Songs of Father Goose," "The
Army Alphabet," "The Navy Alphabet," "American Fairy Tales," "Dot
and Tot of Merryland," "The Art of Decorating" (a technical work for
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window trimmers), "The Master Key," "The Life and Adventures of
Santa Claus," "The Enchanted Island of Yew," "The Magical Monarch
of MO," "The Marvelous Land of Oz," "The Woggle Bug book," "Queen
Zixi of Ix," "Animal Fairy Tales," "John Dough and the Cherub,"
"Ozma of Oz," "Dorothy and the Wizard," "Baum's Fairy Tales,"
"The Road to Oz," "The Emerald City of Oz," "Baum's Juvenile
Speaker," "The Sea Fairies," "The Daring Twins," "Phoebe Daring,
Conspirator," "Sky Island,' "Little Wizard Series," "Patchwork Girl
of Oz," "Baum's Snuggle Tales," "Tik Tok Man of Oz," "Scarecrow
of Oz," "Rinkitink in Oz," "Babes in Birdland," "The Lost Princess of
Oz," "The Tin Woodman of Oz" and "The Magic of Oz." Upon his
death Mr. Baum left some completed manuscripts which his publishers
will announce as posthumous works for the future.
During his career Mr. Baum also wrote under several noms de plume,
the "Mary Louise" books, and the "Flying Girl" and "Aunt Jane
Nieces" series under the name of "Edith Van Dyne," the "Boy Fortune
Hunters" series under the name of "Floyd Akers," the "Sam Steele"
series under the name of "Captain Hugh Fitzgerald," the "Twinkle
Tales" and the "Babes in Birdland" under the name of "Laura Bancroft,"
and various other books under the name of "Suzanne Metcalf" and
"Schuyler Stanton." He left a book dedicated to each one of his children
and grandchildren, while the most popular of all his works, the "Won-
derful Wizard of Oz," is dedicated to his wife.
Having spent many winters in Southern California, about 1909, Mr.
Baum decided to live here permanently and built a residence at 1749
Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, where he made his home. "Ozcot" as it
is known, is one of the attractive and unique dwellings in Hollywood,
surrounded by a beautiful garden in which Mr. Baum delighted to work.
He became known as the amateur king of chrysanthemums of South-
ern California, his dahlias and chrysanthemums in which he specialized,
having taken over twenty silver cups at numerous flower shows. A well
stocked aviary and fish pond, both of which Mr. Baum built, and a
summer house in which many of the Oz books were written, are also
in this enclosed garden.
While living at Macatawa, on Lake Michigan, he owned a summer
home which he named the "Sign of the Goose." For this house he made
all the furniture, the brads used in the manufacture thereof being in
the form of brass geese. The border trimmings in the rooms were
stenciled geese, and a large glass window portrayed an immense goose
in colors.
Mr. Baum was a man who was conversant with many subjects,
, was appreciative of good music and had a highly developed artistic
sense. In politics he never allowed himself to be bound by party ties,
but gave his vote to the candidate whom he deemed best suited for the
office.
His social connections included membrrship in the LOs Angeles Ath-
letic Club, and the Uplifters of Los Angeles, the Chicago Athletic Asso-
ciation and the Players Club of New York. After having sufifered severely
for fifteen months with a serious illness, Mr. Baum quietly passed to his
final rest May 6, 1919.
Thomas Bruen Brown was an early member of the Los Angeles
bar, served at one time in the office of Unit.d States District Attorney
of Southern California, and earned distinction and lasting memory not
only by his ability as a lawyer but by the many gracious qualities of his
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heart and mind. He was a brother of Harrington Brown, the present
postmaster of Los Angeles.
He was born at Washington, D. C, October 23, 1847, son of Dr.
W. V. H. Brown, a physician of that city, and representing a family of
prominence in Washington almost from the establishment of that city.
With inherited talents were combined privileges and training dur-
ing his youth which admirably fitted him for the profession and the
various activities that characterize him in Southern California. He
attended Young's Academy, took the classical course of Princeton Uni-
versity, and finished his law studies at Columbia University. He also
enjoyed the benefits of extensive travel in America and Europe, and
first visited Los Angeles in 1872 and made that city his permanent home
in 1875. He began practice here and in a short time rose to eminence in
his profession. For two terms he was district attorney, but he gave his
private practice preference over his political office, though for many
years he was looked upon as one of the guiding spirits of the democratic
party of the cit^^ His only important diversion aside from the law was
the cflre of an orange grove of ten acres on Adams Street.
Mr. Brown was prominent in Masonry, but the institution to which
he devoted himself most particularly and through which he exemplified
his philanthropic spirit was St. John's Episcopal Church, of which he
was a charter member and a vestryman, and the history of that church
notes him as one of its principal founders and upbuilders. He died Feb-
ruary 10, 1893, and there were impressive services at his funeral in his
beloved church, while his body was borne to its last resting place in Rose-
dale cemetery by the local organizations of Masons.
Death came to him in the prime of his years and powers, and while
his loss was deeply felt by the legal profession, the outstanding fact that
made his death most widely mourned was the well rounded character
he exemplified. As one of his friends said: "He was the gentlest and
kindest as well as the most luanly of men. A great heart and a most
lovable nature had this most gracious representative of nature's nobility.
With remarkable unanimity an entire community mourns the death of
our lamented friend, gallant gentleman, stanch and never relaxing friend,
great heart and blameless citizen."
At Los Angeles, June 4, 1879, he married Miss Eleanor T. Patton.
Her father was Col. George S. Patton, who led a Virginia regiment in
the Civil war and was mortally wounded at the battle of Winchester.
She is a sister of George S. Patton, Jr., of Los Angeles. Her six chil-
dren all live in Los Angeles except her oldest son. Lieutenant George
Patton Brown, of the United States Navy. The only daughter, Mrs.
Sidney I. Wailes, is well known in Los Angeles society. The other four,
sons are Thomas B., Arvin H., Eltinge T. and Hobart G.
Eltinge Thornton Brown, a son of the late Thomas B. Brown,
whose distinguished career as a Los Angeles lawyer has been noted on
other pages, is a native son of Los Angeles and for a number of years
has been prominent in the real estate and insurance business.
He was born March 31, 1888, and was liberally educated, attending
the Harvard School of Los Angeles and Leland Stanford University.
After his college career and when about twenty-one years of age he
engaged in the general insurance and real estate business in 1910 under
the name Brown Bros. Company. For several years his associates were
his brothers A. H. and Thomas B. Brown, but he is now sole owner of
the business and its active head. He represents a number of fire and
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casualty insurance companies, and also handles Los Angeles property.
Mr. Brown is a stockholder in a number of local companies and is a
member of the Los Angeles Realty Board and the Los Angeles Cham-
ber of Commerce.
He is a member of the Zeta Psi college fraternity, is a democrat, a
member of the University Club, Automobile Club of Southern Cali-
fornia, the Los Angeles Motor Boat Club. His hobby is swimming.
Mr. Brown and family reside at 2420 Raymond Avenue. Otto-
ber 29, 1913, he married Miss Clarisse Stevens. She was horn and
educated in Los Angeles, where her parents still reside. Her father
is Otheman Stevens, widely known as a special writer for the Los
Angeles Examiner. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one son, Eltinge Stevens
Brown.
Carl Clemkns Str.vssberger, who died at his Los Angeles home,
630 Wilton Place, March 1, 1919, had been a resident of Southern Cali-
fornia several years but had lived very quietly. However, Mr. Strass-
berger was nationally and internationally known in the world of music,
and was founder of the largest conservator)' of music west of Chicago.
He was born in Saxony near the city of Dresden, April 24, 1859.
He attended school at Dresden, and as a small boy evinced passion for
music. He was never able to remember when he first learned to play
on musical instruments. His father was a wealth}' brewer and seriously
objected to his son pursuing a musical career. Nevertheless the per-
sistence and ambition of the boy triumphed over all obstacles, and he
was given every advantage at the Royal Conservatory of Music at Dres-
den. As a child he conducted a boy's band and all his play and work
and pleasure was musical. In Saxony he laid the foundation for the
wonderful grasp he had of music from every angle, as composer, pro-
ducer, teacher, critic and patron.
Coming to America in 1881, he traveled extensively with various
musical organizations, and in 1885 established his home at St. Louis.
The debt of that city to the late Mr. Strassberger is a lasting one. He
probably did more than any other man to educate St. Louis as a com-
munity to the appreciation of good music. At the beginning he worked
among boys, forming a band of sixty members. He had them so well
trained that eventually he took them on concert tours. Later he was
director of a full orchestra, of some sixty odd members.
He had the musical genius, also the gift of an organizer, and what
is perhaps most rare in that combination sound business ability. He
established at St. Louis the Strassberger Conservatory of Music, which
from the first has ranked among the best institutions of its kind in
America. He finally enlarged it to three branches, and it became the
largest conservator}' west of Chicago. His success was due partly to
the fact that he was exceedingly diligent in searching for the best instruc-
tors. He made many trips to Europe to study methods and secure
assistants. The recitals anrl commencement exercises of the Strass-
berger Conservatory were among the musical events of St. Louis. A
true patron of music, a successful business man, he was inspired bv
generosity, and when he recognized real talent he was ever ready to
encourage it with all the facilities at his command, and a number of
promising pupils received their musical education from him free of
charge. He was also liberal in behalf of charitable purposes, giving
many complete concerts and furnishing nnisical numl)ers for charitable
programs.
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On February 8, 1888, Mr. Strassberger married Matilda Heim, a
daughter of John and Gertrude (Christen) Heim, of St. Louis. Mrs.
Strassberger possessed a soprano voice of wonderful beauty and did
much to make her husband's work a success, and a great deal of the
credit was due her ability to direct financially and otherwise his grow-
ing business. Both always took a personal interest in their pupils. Mrs.
Strassberger frequently sang in concerts evenings after helping in the
Conservatory during the day.
Mr. Strassberger associated with him in his conservatory fifty or
more prominent musicians as instructors. Some of the better known
of these artists were the late Dr. Robert Goldbeck ; Alfred Ernst, for
years director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra ; Guido Parisi, the
Italian violin soloist, formerly of New York ; George Buddeus ; Charles
Galloway, who at present is the leading organist in St. Louis; Daniel
Jones, Ellis Levy and others.
Mr. Strassberger composed many selections of band music. One,
"The Letter Carriers March," was dedicated to the Postmaster of St.
Louis, his personal friend.
In the midst of his successful work about twelve years ago Mr.
Strassberger's health was seriously impaired and ended in a paralytic
stroke. After that he traveled extensively in search of health, and spent
six months under the care of specialists in Europe. He returned much
improved and at once plunged enthusiastically into his former work.
Again it became necessary for him to go abroad and recuperate. The
outbreak of the World war found Mr. and Mrs. Strassberger in Germany
and they were in Berlin when the Kaiser delivered his speech to the
army. Avoiding the rush of Americans to leave by English and French
ports, he went to Italy and came home from that country direct to St.
Louis. Soon afterwards he came out to Los Angeles and impressed
with the beauty and climate of Southern California he bought a home
and lived there quietly until his recent death. The present director of
the Conservatory in St. Louis is his brother Bruno Strassberger. Mr.
Strassberger was a member of the Apollo Club, the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra, the American Federation of Musicians, and a member of
the Masonic Order.
Mrs. Strassberger survives him, and also two daughters and two
grandchildren. The daughters are Mrs. A. J. Barthels, of Los Angles,
and Mrs. C. A. Wiederholdt of St. Louis. The grandchildren are
Alfred and Dorothy Wiederholdt.
Patrick Henry O'Neil. While for half a dozen years or more his
home and his business investments have been centered in Southern
California, Patrick Henry O'Neil is nationally well known as a stock
man, and was at one time rated as the largest individual land owner
and cattle raiser in the State of South Dakota.
Mr. O'Neil is a typical westerner and has achieved great commer-
cial success and influence out of early conditions when he had only his
brain and hand to depend upon. He was born at New Richmond, Wis-
consin, February 16, 1866, son of Thomas and Johanna (Harty) O'Neil.
He graduated from the New Richmond High School in 1882 and in the
same year his parents moved to South Dakota, locating at Miller. In
that state, where his interests afterwards became so extensiv % he in
1884 found employment at a meat market in Faulkton. Three n^onths
later he bought a half interest and after two years was sole owner of
the business. That was the foundation of his commercial operations.
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While he continued the operation of the meat market for ten years, he
was also dealing extensively in cattle and sheep and at the end of that
time had numerous herds grazing and feeding both on leased and
patented lands. At the climax of his business he was, as above noted,
probably the largest individual land owner and most extensive stock
raiser in the state.
However, the value of Mr. O'Neil's business interests has been much
greater than his individual holdings. He knows men, has shown good
executive ability, has had some experience in politics, and for a num-
ber of years was one of the recognized leaders among the cattle men of
the country. The welfare of the livestock industry in general has been
greatly advanced by his efforts and influence. In 1909 by appointment
of the governor of South Dakota he represented his state at the Ameri-
can National Live Stock Association Convention in Los Angeles and
was elected a member of the association's executive force and had a
very important share in the deliberations of the body. In 1910 he was
one of the five delegates representing the same association in the National
Conservation Congress at St. Paul. A little later he was a member of
the Committee on Resolutions of the American Live Stock Association
at its meeting in Fort Worth. Beginning in 1909 he served as a mem-
ber of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of South Dakota, and in
December, 1911, was chosen chairman of the Live Stock Sanitary Board
for the National Live Stock Association. In th;se offices he worked
steadily for the raising and broadening of the standards of live stock
inspection, and the safeguarding of the animal husbandry of America
from disease.
In his home state, Mr. O'Neil had many prominent business con-
nections. He is president of the O'Neil Live Stock and Land Company
at Faulkton, vice president and director of the Merchants Bank of
Faulkto.i, of the Bank of Cresbard, and the First State Bank of Onaka,
was a director of the Northern Casualty Company of Aberdeen.
During the past seven or eight years Mr. O'Neil has disposed of
many of his interests in South Dakota and has invested heavily in
Southern California real estate and has been connected with a number
of developments around Los Angeles. In 1912 he bought his beautiful
home at 1257 Manhattan Place, and is owner of much other property in
and around the city.
For a number of years Mr. O'Neil was regarded as one of the most
influential republicans of South Dakota, though never an aspirant for
office. He was a delegate to the National Convention in Chicago in
1908, supporting the nomination of Taft. Among other civic honors
enjoyed he was appointed by the Governor to represent the state at the
National Corn Exposition in Omaha in 1908. For ten years he was
a member of the Faulkton City School Board. He also served two
terms as president of the Faulkton Commercial Club, and is a former
president of the Old Settlers Picnic Association there.
Mr. O'Neil maintains his business offices in the Story Building, at
Los Angeles. On June 13, 1888, he -narri d Miss Annie Carlin at Zell,
South Dakota. They have a family of five children : Louis B., Mary
Ellen, Ignatius P., John T., and Henry A.
.Samuel Macaw Kennedy has been a resident of California since
1896, and for twenty years h'ls been in the electrical business, most of that
time as general agent for the Southern California Edison Company.
He was born at Toronto, Canada, June 20, 1863, a son of Warring
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and Jane (Macaw) Kennedy. His father died at the age of seventy-six
and his mother at forty-nine. His father for many years was a success-
ful merchant at Toronto and was twice elected mayor of that city.
The son was educated in the Collegiate Institute and the Upper
Canada College at Toronto, and after leaving college entered the employ-
ment of the firm of which his father was the head. For ten years he
was European buyer for the firm of Samson, Kennedy & Company,
wholesale importers at Toronto, his father's business. His duties and
responsibilities in that work required his making a trip to Europe twice
every year and he crossed the Atlantic a total of forty-two times before
he was thirty. At the age of thirty-one he had a physical breakdown,
and had to retire from business for several years. For about five years
he traveled m search of health and in the meantime had come to Cali-
fornia in 1896.
About 1900 he became assistant to the president of the United Elec-
tric Gas & Power Company of Los Angeles. This property was acquired
in 1902 by the Southern California Edison Company, and Mr. Kennedy
since then has been connected with the larger corporation, having charge
of the commercial departments of the business. During this period he
has given special attention to the subjects of public policy, rate making
and business development. His has been a varied and valuable service
to the corporation, but its outstanding feature has been in revising an
old legend concerning a corporation having no soul, particularly as
applied to the Southern California Edison Company. Mr. Kennedy is
in fact a past master, so recognized not only in his own company but
among public utility corporations everywhere, in the art of introducing
the human and personal element into the business relations between a
large utility company and its individual patrons. Some of the outstand-
ing features in the service of the Southern California Company most
appreciated by the general public, are the fruit of Mr. Kennedy's long
study and experience. He in turn has had the satisfaction of seeing
the number of the company's consumers grow and the volume of its
business increase from that of a small enterprise to one of the giant
corporations in the west.
Mr. Kennedy has been a frequent contributor in electrical publi-
cations on matters pertaining to the electrical industry, primarily on
subjects of relations with the public and matters pertaining to public
policy. An interesting summary of his experiences and deductions is
contained in an address which Mr. Kennedy delivered before the Pacific
Coast Section of the National Electric I>ight Association in May, 1919.
This address was regarded as one of such timely interest that the con-
vention by special resolution had it printed and published, and many
thousands have since read the little pamphlet "The Man in the Street,"
the title used by Mr. Kennedy in his address.
Mr. Kennedy is the author of a book entitled "Practical Idealism in
Public Service." It is the crystalization of the experiences of his ideas
of public service, and the book has had a wide circulation among public
utility officials and employers as well as among business men in all parts
of the country.
Mr. Kennedy is a member of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers and the American Electro-Chemical Society, and is an acknowl-
edged authority on electrical business develqpment and subjects related
undr that head.
Mr. Kennedy is general agent of the Southern California Edison
Company. Mount Whitney Power & Electric Company, and is a director
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of Santa Barbara Electric Company, Santa Barbara and Suburban Rail-
way, and the Wallace Refineries. He is a 'republican voter, a member
of the Masonic Order and is affiliated with the California Club of Los
Angeles.
October 1, 1902, at Alhambra, California, he married Miss Mattie
Wallace, daughter of the late J. C. Wallace of Alhambra. Her father
was a prominent orchardist and citrus nurseryman in Los Angeles
County. Her granduncle was the late B. D. Wilson, conspicuous among
the early pioneers of Southern California.
Ferman E. Davis is one of the veteran lawyers of Los Angeles,
having been in active practice there nearly thirty years, and either alone
or in association with other prominent lawyers has been employed in
many of the most important cases before the courts of Southern Cali-
fornia.
Mr. Davis, who came to Los Angeles immediately after finishing
his law education, was born at Liberty, Indiana, June 27, 1868, a son
of Andrew F. and Sarah Elizabeth (McKee) Davis. His father was a
native of Ohio and his mother of Indiana, and they were married in the
latter state and moved to Illinois about 1873. Mr. Davis is descended
on both sides from a long line of farmers and stock men. During the
Civil war his father served three and a half years in Company I of the
Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant. He was
badly wounded and lost his hearing at the battle of Shiloh and a naturally
strong constitution was greatly impaired for the rest of his life. He
died at Monticello, Illinois, in 1891. His widow is still living at Monti-
cello. In the family were five children, one son dying in infancy. Orilla
Conard, the oldest, is the widow of Philip H. Conard, and lives with
her mother at Monticello, Illinois, and is the mother of ten children.
Hattie, who came to Los Angeles about thirty years ago, at the time
of her second marriage, returned east and is now Mrs. Charles M. Bond
of Philadelphia. All four of lier children are married and live at Los
Angeles. The other daughter was Nancy, Mrs. D. W. Dcardurft', of
Monticello, Illinois, who died a number of years ago leaving two children.
Ferman E. Davis, the youngest of the family, was educated in the
public and high schools of Monticello, Illinois, and after public school
taught for two terms in Piatt County, Illinois. He then entered the
law department of the University of Michigan, graduating LL. B. in
1891. He was admitted to the Michigan bar, but immediately came to
Los Angeles and opened his law o-ffice on Spring Street in what was
then the Los Angeles Theatre Building. During the first seven years
he practiced alone, and then formed a partnership with the late Thomas
L. Winder under the name Winder & Davis. Telfair Creighton subse-
quently became a member of the firm Winder, Creighton & Davis, and
after the death of Mr. Winder the firm was Creighton & Davis. Then
for a time Mr. Davis practiced alone later becoming a member of the
firm of Hansen, Davis & Wilson. He was afterward associated with
Judge W. W. Hyams as Davis & Hyams for a short time, and since 1914
has conducted an individual practice. He handles no criminal cases
and much of his work has been in corporation law. For a number of
years he has been general counsel for the Tejunga Water & Power Com-
pany.
Mr. Davis is a republican, a member of the Union League Club and
the City Club. In August, 1892, at Los Angeles, he married Miss
Hedwig Gross, at Atwood, Illinois. She died at Los Angeles in 1904,
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leaving a daughter, Helen, a native of Los Angeles. Helen spent four
years in the University of Illinois, and is now connected with the depart-
ment of psychology in the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh.
In 1906 Mr. Davis married Thelma H. Howe of Los Angeles. They have
a son Charles Foster, horn at Los Angeles in 1909. This son has decided
musical talent, has been a student of music since he was five years of
age, largely under the direction of his talented mother, who is a singer
and has appeared in public for a number of years. The son now plays
piano accompaniments for his mother and is a skilled pianist. Mr. and
Mrs. Davis are both people of m^ny accomplishments. All the family
are fond of horseback riding, Mr. Davis being an expert rider. He is
also an expert shot with rifle and pistol. The family reside at 1372
Lucile avenue.
Paul Shoup. In 1919 Paul Shoup was made vice president of the
Southern Pacific Company, after having been in the railroad game for
over twenty-eight years. He was born in 1874 at San Bernardino. At
the age of three his parents moved to Iowa, where he received his early
schooling, returning ten years later to San Bernardino. In 1891 he
joined the mechanical forces of the Santa Fe at San Bernardino. Later he
joined the Southern Pacific forces, passing through the various offices
from ticket clerk, telegrapher agent, etc., to assistant general pass-
enger agent until 1910, when he was appointed assistant general man-
ager of the Southern Pacific Company in charge of its electric lines.
In 1912 he was made president of the Pacific Electric Railway Company,
and also retained charge of the electric properties in Fresno, Stockton,
San Jose and Oakland. When the government took over the operation
of the steam railroads of the Southern Pacific Company, together with
its operating officials, Mr. Shoup was made vice president thereof in
charge of the company's other property interests as well as its affiliated
and proprietary concerns.
He is a member of the Jonathan, California and Union League
clubs of Los Angeles ; the Bohemian, Pacific Union and Olympic clubs
of San Francisco, and is a member of the Episcopal church. In 1900
he married Miss Rose Wilson of San Francisco. Their three children
are Carl, Jack and Louise Shoup. He lives at Los Altos, Santa Clara
County.
L
Isaac Springer, who came to California in 1885, and was the first
agent of the Santa Fe Railway at Raymond Station, has for thirty years
played an increasingly important part in the financial afifairs of Los
Angeles and Pasadena, as an insurance man, banker, mortgage and invest-
ment business.
Mr. Springer, who is president of the Pacific Mortgage Company,
of Los Angeles, was born May 24, 1861, in Illinois, but spent' his early
life in Ohio. He has no recollection of his father and his mother married
a second time and came to California in 1891 and lived with her son in
Pasadena until her death. Isaac Springer grew up in Union County,
Ohio, and received most of his early advantages in a log school house
near Richwood in that county. His environment was a farm until after
he was twenty-one. He learned and worked as a telegrapher with what
is now the Erie railroad, spending two years at Gabon, Ohio. From
there he came to California in 1885, and has always made his home in
Pasadena. For one year he was on a ranch, then did railroad work,
and for one year occupied the position of agent of the Santa Fe at
Raymond.
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In 1888 Mr. Springer entered the general insurance, both fire and
life, at Pasadena, and had his business in that line in Pasadena until
I9O8, when' he opened an office in Los Angeles. While in Pasadena he
organized the Home Savings Bank at Los Angeles, and the American
Bank and Trust Company at Pasadena. He also did an extensive busi-
ness in real estate, and was secretary of what is now the Pasadena
Building and Loan Association. In 1912 he organized the Pacific Mort-
gage Company, of which he is president.
Mr. Springer is a republican of the Roosevelt type, is a member of
the Ohio Society of California, and the First Methodist Episcopal
Church at Pasadena. October 18, 1892, at Kokomo, Indiana, he married
Miss Mary S. Libert. Her father was Rev. James Libert, who died
while a pastor at Fremont, Ohio. Mrs. Springer was born at Ross-
ville, Indiana, and was educated at Gallon, Ohio. She is a very active
Sunday School worker. They have four children, all born in Pasadena
and educated in that city. Joseph L. enlisted as a private in the National
Army, was made a lieutenant in the quartermaster's department, and
is now in the superintendent's office of the American Railway Express
at Norfolk, Virginia. The daughter Helen is the wife of Ralph T.
Taylor, of Los Angeles ; Robert S. is a resident of Salt Lake City ; and
James W. is a student in the University of California at Berkeley.
Creciat. This has been an honored name in Los Angeles for nearly
forty years. While several of the name have gained prominence in
business, the interests and associations of the Creciats have been singu-
larly close and affectionate, and it is as a family group that they may
be best considered.
The founder of the family was the late Charles H. Creciat, who
was born at Buffalo, New York, of French parentage. In 1872, at
Sewanee, Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, he married Louisa
A. Burnette, an orphan then living with her sister. Her father died
when she was three months old and her mother when she was eight
years old in 1861. She first attended school at Nashville, Tennessee,
and at the age of fifteen entered Murfreesboro College, a Methodist
institution. She was the youngest of five children. At sixteen she went
on a visit to Sewanee, Tennessee, where she met Charles H. Creciat,
who then owned a bakeshop. After their marriage they lived at Nash-
ville, where Mr. Creciat was employed in a planing mill, and thus laid
the foundation of what was to become his life's business.
Mr. and Mrs. Creciat came to California by railroad, bringing with
them their four children. Their home for the first six months was at
Riverside, where Mr. Creciat helped erect the County Fair buildings
then in course of construction, and also the Riverside Baptist church.
After moving to Los Angeles they lived for a time at the old Com-
mercial Hotel at Third and Spring, until they bought property at Daly
and Pasadena Avenues.
The names of the children of this couple were: William L.,
Charles H. Jr., Marie Antoinette, George L. and Jennie. Mr. Creciat,
Sr., was a man who was always a companion to his boys, and he and his
wife created a home atmosphere so compellingly attractive that the
greatest pleasure of the children was in the home society. After com-
ing to Los Angeles Mr. Creciat, Sr., helped build many of the finest
homes in the city. As a building contractor he was in partnership with
others and later for himself. He erected a planing mill called the East
Side Planing Mill, and subsequently owned another similar establish-
ment on East Fourth Street.
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After having retired from business he went to Alaska during the
gold excitement. He built boats for the miners, creating them from the
trees of the forest, and he also packed miners over the hills, having a
team of horses. On his return to California, he resumed contractmg
and at that time established his planing mill on East Fourth street. Later
he and a Mr. Hinter went up into the California hills and staked out
some gold mining claims, and while at the mines he was stricken and
died of heart disease.
The children were all educated in Los Angeles. While young men
the three boys entered the employ of the Morgan Oyster Company. The
youngest brother went into business for himself on the present site of
the Jevne store on 6th and Broadway, and his business grew so fast and
the possibilities were so great that the two older brothers joined him
under the firm name of Creciat Brothers. Subsecpiently they established
branch houses at San Pedro and San Diego. The lease expiring on their
place at Sixth and Broadway, they bought the Haniman Fish Com-
pany to obtain a suitable location. This was the oldest market location
in the city. The father had always advised the boys to be honest, upright
in their dealings with everyone, and they scrupulously carried out the
principles thus instilled, and integrity was the founda,tiOn stone of
Creciat Brothers. The children were all baptized in the Episcopal church,
though in later years they have affiliated with different churches.
Recently the business community of Los Angeles sustained a great
loss in the almost coincidental death of two of the brothers, William
L. and George L., who died of pneumonia within a few hours of each
other. William L. Creciat was born June 8, 1873, and his brother
George L. on August 28, 1879, both being natives of Nashville, Ten-
nessee. William L. never married and after the death of his father
was by common consent looked upon as head of the household. He
was a Shriner, an Elk, Modern Woodman, a member of the Athletic
Club and Chamber of Commerce. His brother Charles was also affili-
ated with the Masonic Order and the Modern Woodmen of America,
and George was an Elk, a Shriner and Woodman. George L. Creciat
married Delia Vogt, of St. Louis, and he was survived by two small
children, William G. and Edward H. The daughter, Jennie C, is the
wife of Ernest Murray, a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, and now employed
in the parcel post department of the Los Angeles postoffice. The other
daughter, Mary Antoinette, is the wife of Edward O. Straub, who came
with his parents from Missouri in 1875, his father being one of the
first blacksmiths in Los Angeles. Edward O. Straub began work as a
machinist in the Pacific Electric shops, later was made foreman of
the shops, where he remained nine years, and at the outbreak of the
World war took the position made vacant by enlistment of the power
house engineer, and since then has been promoted to shop superin-
tendent of the Pacific Electric Railway. Mr. and Mrs. Straub have
four children : Ilenn Rosabell, Rose Marie, Louise and Edward George.
Charles H. Creciat, who continues the business of Creciat Brothers,
married Miss Gertrude Gillman, who came to California from Maine.
They have two children, Charles Edward and Birdinc Louise.
Joseph P. Sproul, a Los Angeles lawyer, now a member of the
firm of Sproul & Sproul in the Washington Building, is a California
native son and member of a family of prominence in that part oT Los
Angeles County known as Norwalk.
He was born at Pomona in Los Angeles County, March 30, 1884.
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His father, Bedfield Sproul, who was born at Augusta, Maine, March
15, 1838, was reared and educated there, and enlisted in the Union
army from Augusta and had an active service as a Union soldier. He
was a Main farmer for many years after the war and in 1880 moved to
Los Angeles County and settled at Norwalk where he engaged extensively
as a stock raiser, buying and selling and was long considered an expert
on all branches of livestock husbandry. He owned a large ranch in
Orange County which was primarily devoted to stock raising. Bedfield
Sproul died in July, 1892. He married at Norwalk, California, in 1882,
Mary C. Kelly. It was his people who founded the town of Norwalk
and were otherwise prominent as pioneers in that section. Bedfield
Sproul and wife had three children, John R. Sproul, deceased; Joseph
P. Sproul and Mary E. Sproul, the latter Mrs. J. T. Blythe of Downey,
California.
Joseph P. Sproul attended grammar and high school and the Depart-
ment of Liberal Arts in the University of Southern California, gradu-
ating from the Law Department of the University with the degree of
LL.B. in 1913. He was admitted to the bar that year and practiced
alone until 1915. He then formed a partnership with his cousin, Frank
P. Sproul, the State Inheritance Tax Appraiser. While Mr. Sproul
does a general law practice his principal work is in probate law. He
is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Elks, Los Angeles
Athletic Club, Delta Theta Phi college fraternity and is a republican.
At Los Angeles, November 24, 1915, he married Adeline E. Wheeler,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Wheeler.
Julius B. Weil. No country of the world offers such opportuni-
ties for advancement to the thrifty, industrious and ambitious youth as
America, and this fact has been a determining factor in bringing here
some of the best young men and women of other nations. One of the
decidedly self-made men of Los Angeles, long an American citizen, but
of foreign birth, is Julius B. Weil, proprietor of the Finkle Arms Apart-
ments, at 912 South Figueroa Street. Born in Baden, Germany, Novem-
ber 25, 1852, Julius B. Weil, a son of Bernherd Weil a farmer of Baden,
had the misfortune to lose his excellent mother when he was only three
years old, and his father when thirteen, and so was early thrown
upon his own resources. He acquired what educational training he
could in his native land, and then, realizing that for one who had his
own way to make in the world, America was the "land of promise,"
he came to the United States, landing here March 17, 1877. His first
experience in commercial life in this' country was at Wilkesbarre, Penn-
sylvania, as a merchant tailor, but later, responding to the feeling that
a land good enough to live in was good enough to fight for, he enlisted
in the United States Army and served in it for five years, taking part
in the Indian warfare, under General Crook, in Arizona, Utah, Wyoming,
Nebraska and the "Black Hills" of Dakota. After his honorable dis-
charge, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and later was at Jonesboro,
Arkansas. In 1902, Mr. Weil went to New Mexico, where he spent
a year, and then in 1903 came to Los Angeles, and for the subsequent
seven years was engaged in several commercial enterprises, principally
accounting and auditing. He served the city of Vernon as city auditor
from 1915 to 1917. On May 15, 1919, he bought his present apartment
building, the care of which is now engrossing his attention. Mr. Weil
was also connected with the Southern California Showcase Company
as secretary, the Resilient Wheel Manufacturing Company as assistant
secretary, and the Southern California Beverage Company as secretary.
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On March 31, 1878, Mr. Weil was married, at St. Louis, Missouri,
to Miss Melanie Levi, and they had one son, Herbert Weil, who is now
sales manager of the A. B. Jones Grocery Company of Jonesboro,
Arkansas. Mrs. Weil died at Jonesboro, in 1898. On March 19, 1899,
Mr. Weil was married to Miss Malwina Zander, and they have one
daughter, Reva Love Weil. Although only sixteen years old, this young
lady is a musician of rare ability, recognized genius and one who has
already made her name a well known one in musical circles. A brilliant
career is before her, to judge from the enthusiastic press notices she
has received. It is the intention of her parents to give her every ad-
vantage to develop her talent, and place her in a position where she can
secure international recognition. A genius is too rare not to be accorded
every opportunity for proper expression, and the world will benefit from
the appreciation by the parents of Miss Weil of her possibilities, and
without doubt the next few years will give to the musical roster a new
name and to adoring audiences untold delight.
Walter Scott Moore, who died March 31, 1919, at his home, 34
St. James Park, for over forty years enjoyed a place of high esteem and
influence in the rising fortunes of Los Angeles.
He was born in Philadelphia, Decen'iber 23, 1850. He was three
years of age when his father, Isaac Walker Moore, died. His mother
was Margaret Harvey, of an old colonial American family, whose people
had fought in the French and Indian wars. She was a member of the
Colonial Dames. After her husband's death and while her children were
still small she was married to the late William F. Hughes of Philadelphia.
Walter Scott Moore was educated in the public schools of Phila-
delphia, and came to California with his mother on a pleasure trip in
1874. The railroad had only recently been completed to the coast. While
Mrs. Hughes came only as far as San Francisco, her son came on to
Los Angeles, and from that time until his death was a resident of the
city. Soon after coming here he engaged in the real estate and insurance
business. He was also admitted to the bar, but never practiced law. At
one time he was collector of internal revenue.
Probably the distinction he prized most highly was as first chief of
the fire department. He helped organize the old volunteer department
and was elected its first chief, a position he held for twenty years, even
after the department had been placed on a paid basis. He was after-
wards a member of the Fire Commission, was a member and president
of the City Council, and served as a member of the Board of Freeholders
which drew up the original city charter. He was president of the Council
when Cameron Thorn was mayor. Through his service as a member
of the Governor's military staflf he had the title of colonel. He was
deeply interested in politics, but chiefly for the welfare and growth of
his home city. He was a republican and at different times was a candi-
date for the Senate and secretary of state. He was a popular speaker,
and was oftentimes selected as an after-dinner orator.
For forty years he was a member of Los Angeles Lodge No. 42,
A. F. and A. M., and was also an Elk, an Eagle and Maccabee. He
was historian and prominent in all Elk activities.
November 17, 1877, in the Plaza Church, at Los Angeles, he mar-
ried Amenaida Raphela LanFranco, daughter of John Tomas LanFranco
and Dona Petra Pilar Sepulveda. Her father came from Genoa, Italy.
Her mother was a daughter of Jose Loretto Sepulveda, owner of the
Palos Verdes Rancho, at San Pedro, and an early Spanish settler. Mrs.
lUyl \ayt/hi
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Moore's great-grandfather was killed in defense of the Purissima Mis-
sion against the Indians. Mrs. Moore is still living and her three children
are Mrs. Richard O'Neil, Walter Moore, both of Los Angeles, and Mrs.
Paul Selby of Johannesburg, South Africa.
NjLs Jacobson. When he arrived at San Bernardino, California,
in 1887, Nils Jacobson was twenty-two years of age. He was not
equipped at once to take a prominent part in California affairs. He
had youth, but no capital, had been in America only about a year, had
some knowledge of stock raising and general farming, but his best
resources were a, complete integrity of character, good health and a
steadfast ambition.
His education had been derived from the grammar school of his
native county of Villeje in the town of Malmo, Sweden, where he was
born March 11, 1865. His parents were Jacob Nelson and Boel Jan-
son) Swedish farming people, thrifty, frugal and people who impressed
their sturdy qualities upon their children.
Nils Jacobson on coming to America first located at Ottawa, Illinois.
The first twelve years he spent in California he did a great deal of hard
labor in the lumbering district in the San Bernardino mountains and
in the Temescal tin mines. He employed his native intelligence to
study the local situation and keep hiniself informed of opportunities.
Mr. Jacobson, during the last twenty years, has been one of the men
most prominent in the real development of California's lands and agricul-
tural and horticultural wealth. In 1896 he moved to Highland, where he
made his first investment in a seven acre ranch. This land he later planted
to oranges. Subsequently he acquired a tract of twenty-three acres of
full bearing oranges. In 1902 he filed on a desert claim of three hun-
dred twenty acres in the Mesquite Lake District in Imperial County.
Thus he was one of the pioneers in the development of that magnificent
region, which has been the marvel of the world. The following year
he moved from his residence at East Highland to Imperial County.
For twelve years Mr. Jacobson gave practically all his time to the
development of his Imperial holdings. He acquired a block of land
consisting of ten hundred forty acres, used for stock and grain farming.
Today it represents one of the finest farms in the heaviest income pro-
ducing property in that rich valley. In 1915 Mr. Jacobson acquired an
orange ranch of fifty-five acres near Downey, and is living there at the
present time. In 1917 he acquired thirty-five acres more land, all set
to oranges and lemons, located just west of Rivera in Los Angeles
County. Mr. Jacobson disposed of all his holdings consisting of three
orange groves located at East Highland, in 1919, and during the same
year he negotiated an exchange of his Imperial holdings Tor seventy
acres of oranges located four miles west of FuUerton in Orange County.
This property is reputed to be one of the finest in that section of Cali-
fornia. At this writing Mr. Jacobson's holdings in orange groves com-
prise a hundred sixty acres. He was also a director of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Imperial.
While Mr. Jacobson is a republican voter, he has been too busy
with his other substantial interests to enter politics, and the work which
constitutes his best memorial is that which has been briefly surveyed
above.
At Redlands, California, January 12, 1897, Mr. Jacobson married
Miss Jennie Marie Holmquist. She was born in Illinois, from which
state her parents moved to Kansas where her father was a pioneer
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farmer, and also active as a merchant in the town of Assaria. Both her
parents were natives of Sweden, and her father volunteered in 1864
in the Union army during the American Civil war.
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John Sinclair was for a number of years a well-to-do and in-
fluential business man, real estate operator at Los Angeles. In acquiring
a modest fortune he wisely and generously distributed his means and
was a constructive factor in the upbuilding and growth of the com-
munity.
He was descended from an old Scotch clan, and was born in Caith-
ness Shire, Scotland, son of Donald Sinclair, a Scotch fisherman. He
received his early education in a local school and later in Edinburgh,
and served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade. From a mechanic
he developed a business as a contractor and later as an architect.
On coming to America he located at Chicago about the time of the
great fire which destroyed that city. Subsequently he lived at Frankfort,
Illinois, where on January 24, 1878, he married Maggie McGlashan.
Three children were born to their marriage: Daisy N., Jessie, who died
in infancy, and Mary. In 1884 Mr. Sinclair moved to Storm Lake,
Iowa, and for twelve years was a farmer in that state. On account of
the failing health of his wife, he came to California in the fall of 1896.
His wife died in the following 'March, 1897. A yeat and a half later
Mary, his beloved daughter, died at the age of fourteen. The greatest
aflfection existed between father and daughter, and Mr. Sinclair never
became completely reconciled to her death.
After coming to Los Angeles Mr. Sinclair engaged in the contract-
ing and real estate business. He was a member and stockholder of a
syndicate which acquired and developed a tract of land known as the
Arlington Heights Extension, also Lafayette Square. He was likewise
interested in the Country Club tract. He was also a member of the
realty firm of Cribb & Sinclair, who put on the market the Garfi;ld and
West Garfield Heights tracts, two other valuable and attractive additions
to the city. The firm also handled the Venice Annex at Venice.
Mr. Sinclair was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Municipal League. He was very active in the prohibition movement
and a member of the Anti-Saloon League. He could be counted upon
to contribute to every worthy charity, and was a man of great force of
character and of strong religious tendencies. For years he was a mem-
ber of the Haven Methodist Church. He was instrumental 'in building
a new church home there. Later, on account of a change of residence,
he became a member of the West Adams Methodist Church and had a
constructive part in the building of the present church home of that
denomination.
In July, 1909, Mr. Sinclair married Martha Roberts of Cherokee,
Iowa, who had come to Los Angeles to make her home. The late Mr.
Sinclair was a republican, but was interested in politics only to the
extent of his individual vote and influence. In 1919 Mr. and Mrs.
Sinclair made an extended trip to several of the Western and middle
states. On his return he seemed in the best of health, but he died Janu-
ary 30, 1919, after a short illness. Besides Mrs. Sinclair, he is survived
by one daughter, Daisy. Daisy is a graduate of the Los Angeles High
School and the School of Oratory of Southern California. In Novem-
ber, 1906, she became the wife of George W. Baird.
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Frank Wing Taylor was a resident of Los Angeles for twenty-
three years and he and his family have long been prominent socially, in
business and professional afifairs of Southern California.
Mr. Taylor, who died in 1918, a short time before the close of the
World war, was born at Troy, New York, April 28, 1856, a son of Tracy
and Ella (Wing) Taylor. The Taylor home was at 122 First Street, in
Troy, and next door lived Russell Sage and wife. Mrs. Sage often
took care of Frank Wing Taylor as a baby and loved him as a child.
His mother was a daughter of Abraham Wing, a pioneer lumberman
of New York. The Wing mill site for several years was known as
Wing's Falls, and later the name was changed to Glens Falls, now an
important city of New York State. Abraham Wing was known for
his extensive charities and his kind and lovable nature.
Tracy Taylor was a descendant of the Tracy family. Baron John
D. Sudley, Lord of Sudley and Toddington, in the year 1140, married
Grace, daughter and heir of Henry De Traci, feudal Lord of Barn-
stable. The Traci family boasted of descent from the Saxon kings of
England.
April 24, 1783, Mary Tracy was married to Nathan Taylor, and
their twin children were Tracy and Mary Taylor. The name Tracy
has reappeared in everj' generation of the Taylor family since then.
Frank Wing Taylor received his early education in Bennington, and
later attended college at Davenport, Iowa. While in Chicago he met
Miss Minnie Cray, and they were married June 6, 1883, at high noon,
in Grace Episcopal Church. Miss Cray was an orphan. Her father,
Edward A. Cray, had a general merchandise store at Fort Edward,
New York, and was a prominent Mason, and died November 3, 1863.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were distantly related. Mrs. Taylor's mother,
Mary Eliza Parke, was a daughter of John C. Park of Whitehall, New
York, and Mary Eliza Wing, niece of Abraham Wing, grandfather, as
noted above, of Frank Wing Taylor.
Before his marriage Mr. Taylor had traveled quite extensively
with his mother both in this country and abroad. He had attended the
Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, and the Paris Exposition of 1878.
His mother, Ella Wing Taylor, and his wife's mother were both graduates
of the Emma Willard Seminary for Young Ladies, at Troy, New York,
a seminary that has since been liberally endowed by Mrs. Russell Sage.
At the time of his marriage Mr. Taylor took a position in the First
National Bank of Chicago under Lyman Gage. This was the first and
only position he ever held, and he remained there ten years. He left
at the death of his mother, which made it necessary for him to take care
of his inheritance, which came to him from his maternal grandfather.
He never resumed business again beyond the responsibilities required in
looking after his private property.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor moved to Los Angeles in October, 1894. The
physicians had given Mrs. Taylor six months to live, but she is alive
and well today. They brought with them their five small children. Their
first home was at 2110 Grand Avenue, then the only house in the block.
After a year, they bought property at the corner of Adams and Grand.
Mrs. Taylor was attracted to this home by reason of its trees and
flowers. Later they made a trip abroad with their three older sons, and
on returning gave their serious attention to the education of the boys.
Edward Cray Taylor, the oldest son, graduated from the Los
Angeles High School, and four years later entered the University of
CaHfornia at Berkeley. He remained there until the earthquake; when
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he continued his studies at Columbia University, graduating in architec-
ture. He then made a second trip abroad to study at first hand the
greatest monuments of architectural genius on the continent and which
he had seen only superficially on his first trip to Europe.
The second son, Ellis Wing Taylor, also attended Columbia Uni-
versity, but graduated from the University of California in construction
engineering. The third son, F. William Howard Taylor, was a student
at Berkeley, but graduated in medicine from the University of Southern
California and became an X-ray specialist.
At the entrance of the United States into the war, all of the sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor enlisted. The three older boys took the exam-
ination and all were commissioned first lieutenant, two in the army and
one in the navy. The oldest son went to France with the Twenty-fifth
Regiment of Engineers, and from March, 1918, was engaged in con-
structing roads, railways, hospitals and bridges near the front lines, and
performing every other duty required of the engineers. He was instru-
mental in having the school of Toulouse opened to the American en-
gineers, artists and architects. He has a diploma and medal from
Toulouse for work done there. The great sorrow of his family in the
death of his father occurred while he was in France, and the news did
not reach him for several months.
The second son went to Annapolis and was allowed to choose where
he would be stationed. He entered the submarine officers' school at New
London, Connecticut, where he was graduated in June, 1918, and passed
with such high honors that he was again allowed freedom of choice and
selected the Western coast and was made commander of submarine F-3.
He was at San Pedro at the time of his father's death and during a
furlough proved the stay and comfort of his mother during the sorrowful
time.
The third son became an X-ray instructor in the Medical Corps
at New York, and was recommended for a captaincy, but on account
of his extreme youth the commission was withheld.
The fourth son, Fred Taylor, who had been injured in an accident,
also did his bit by work in the shipyards during the war.
The older daughter, Barbara, a gifted harpist, during the war
graduated in a course in first aid work with the Red Cross and was
busily engaged in war duties, not only with her harp, but with her h^nd.
She is the wife of Charles Roger Kierhulf, a junior member of the firm
C. R. Kierhulf & Company, electricians' supplies, and who during the
war was in the nax'}', at the Reserve Training Station at San Pedro.
The younger daughter. Alma, who was born in Los Angeles, was
married to William H. Eaton Jr., son of William H. Eaton, after
whose family Eaton's Canyon was named, and whose grandfather con-
structed the first water line into Pasadena. William H. Eaton Jr. during
the closing months of the war was in the Artillery Officers' School at
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky.
The late Frank Wing Taylor was one of the promoters of the
Chess Club of Los Angeles, and as a member of the Athletic Club was
chairman of its Chess Club. He was baptized and confirmed in the
Episcopal Church, and in politics was always a democrat.
TiMON Evans Owens. Los Angeles has had a number of years in
which to appreciate and estimate the ripe scholarship and versatile gifts
and abilities of Timon Evans Owens. Mr. Owens was for a number of
years a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, served one of the
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churches in the Los Angeles district for several years, and while still in
the ministry studied law and is now well established in a successful prac-
tice.
He was born near Clarksville, in Clinton County, Ohio, May 24;
1874, a on of Rev. Asa H. and Julia (Evans) Owens. His father
was a native of Illinois and his mother of Ohio, and they are now liv-
ing in retirement at Deerfield, Michigan. Rev. Asa H. Owens spent
his active life as a clergyman of the Methodist Protestant Church ana
did his work for many years in Ohio. He celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday on April 16, 1919. The Owens family came originally from
Ireland about 1800. Through his mother Mr. Owens has a strong
strain of Welsh. The Evanses came from Wales and first settled near
Philadelphia about 1700, and later generations moved to Pennsylvania
and Ohio. There was a Timon Evans who was killed as a soldier in
the French and Indian war in 1755, and later members of the same,
family fought in the Revolution. A grandson of the soldier Timon
Evans, who was born in 1805, was the namesake of the Los Angeles
lawyer.
The latter is the oldest of a family of two sons and one daughter,
and the only member of his family living in the west. He was educated
in public schools and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the class
of 1899 from Adrian College, Michigan. During 1902-03 he was a
student in Yale University, and in 1905 received his Bachelor of Divin-
ity degree from Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut.
He was ordained in the Episcopal Church by the bishop of Connecti-
cut at Middletown in 1905. For one year he was instructor of Greek
in Adrian College, his alma mater, and after that for ten years was in
the ministry of the Episcopal Church. He filled pulpits in important
churches in Washington, D. C, and Philadelphia, and in 1910 came
to Los Angeles as pastor of the Church of the Ascension at Boyle
Heights. He remained in the active work of that profession until the
close of 1915. Mr. Owens studied law in the Law Department of the
University of Southern California. He was admitted to the California
bar in 1916, and received the degree Juris Doctor from the University
of Southern California in 1918.
He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega College Fraternity, the
Sigma Iota Chi, honorary scholarship legal fraternity ; the Union League
Club of Los Angeles, and is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason.
Robert Irwin Rogers, one of the vice-presidents of the Merchants
National Bank of Los Angeles, has been continuously identified with
banking in this city and Pasadena for nearly thirty years.
He was born at El Paso, Illinois, son of Samuel Talmadge and
Mary Virginia (Pickrell) Rogers. Through both parents he is eligible
by ancestral record to membership in the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion. His father served four years in the Civil war, being a first lieu-
tenant in Company A of the 86th Illinois Infantry. He was successful
in business and was a banker at El Paso, where he died in 1884. His
widow survived him and came to Los Angeles where she died in 1916.
Robert I. Rogers, only living child of his parents, attended the
public schools of his native town and was a student in Eureka College
in Illinois. Part of his student life was spent abroad, traveling in
Europe during 188-6-87-88. During that time he attended a technical
school at Leipsic, Germany. After returning to this country and to his
old home in Illinois he started West, and for three years lived in Kansas,
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Montana and other states and territories. In 1891 Mr. Rogers came to
Los Angeles and in the same year went to work for the National Bank
of California. Eventually he was made assistant cashier, but in 1905
he became cashier of the First National Bank of Pasadena. He was
also a director of that bank and a director of the Pasadena Savings &
Trust Company. Returning to Los Angeles in 1907, Mr. Rogers became
cashier of the National Bank of California and in 1908 was elected
vice-president. When in May, 1917, the consolidation of banking inter-
ests occurred by which the National Bank of California lost its identity
in the Merchants National Bank, Mr. Rogers remained as one of the
vice-presidents of the larger institution. With the exception of two years,
thereafter, he has been a member of the personnel of this bank since 1891.
Mr. Rogers is president of the United Eastern Mining Company,
owning the largest gold mine in the United States today. During the
war he was a member of the civilian committee to make preliminary
investigations prior to the action of militar}' authorities in the case of
candidates for officers training camps and other army positions. He is
a republican, member of the California Club, Los Angeles Country
Chib, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Automobile Club of Southern Cali-
fornia, Midwick Country Club, Ceretos Gun Club and Bohemian Club
of San Francisco. His favorite recreation is fishing and shooting.
June 28, 1895, Mr. Rogers married Miss Mabel Josephine Clement,
who was born at Willoughby, Ohio, and finished her education in LaSalle
Academy at Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, the late George W.
Clement, was a man of much prominence in Northern Ohio. Mrs. Rogers
is also eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion.
Ralph B. Haed.\cre is prominently known in banking circles at
Los Angeles and has devotfvd practically all his mature years to banking
experience. He is now vice-president of the Security Trust and Savings
Bank.
Mr. Hardacre was born at Englewood, Chicago, Illinois, in Decem-
ber, 1878. His father Joseph Hardacre was lieutenant of a company in
the Union army during the Civil war. Ralph B. Hardacre was educated
in the public schools of Chicago, and acquired his first bank training in
that city before coming to Los Angeles. He is well known in club and
social circles, is a Mason, a member of the Sons of the Arnerican Revo-
lution, an honorary member of the Loyal Legion, and belongs to the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the California Club and Los Angeles
Country Club.
Elbridge Edwards Hewitt was one of the notable pioneers in
southern California, was a California forty-niner and became identified
with Los Angeles and tributary country during the period of the Civil
war.
He was born in Steuben County, New York, August 12, 1828, and
died at Los Angeles June 10, 1895. His first American ancestors reached
this country and settled in Connecticut in the early part of the seventeenth
century. Grandfather Randall Hewitt was an officer in Washington's
army during the Revolution. The father, Richard Hewitt, a native ot
New York state, practiced medicine in New York, Ohio and Missouri
over forty years. Dr. Richard Hewitt married Hannah H. Parker, whose
ancestors came to America from Wales during colonial times. Dr.
Hewitt and wife were married in 1827, and in 1831 moved to Tuscarawas
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County, Ohio, where Elbridge E. Hewitt spent much of his early life.
His father represented his district two terms in the Ohio Legislature,
and in 1845 he was appointed by the President agent to the Wyandotte
Indians, a responsibility that took him out to the frontier at what is now
Kansas City, Kansas.
Elbridge Edwards Hewitt was seventeen years of age when the
family left Ohio, and in the meantime he had attended district school.
From 1845 to 1847 he was clerk in an Indian trading post at what was
then known as Westport Landing, but is now Kansas City. In April,
1847, he enlisted in the Twelfth United States Infantry during the war
with Mexico. The commander of his brigade was Franklin Pierce,
afterward president of the United States. He participated in the ad-
vance from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico and fought at Contreras
and Churubusco and was slightly wounded in the former engagement.
At the close of the war he declined appointment as second lieutenant in
the regular army in order to come to California. News of the gold dis-
covery had just reached him, and he and two other young men from
Kansas City crossed the plains and arrived in the Golden State in Sep-
tember, 1849. During the next four years he was engaged in mining and
merchandising in Mariposa, Merced and Stanislaus Counties.
Mr. Hewitt first reached Los Angeles July 31, 1863. He soon after-
ward walked five hundred miles to a mining camp in Arizona, and after
some varied experience entered the service of General Phineas Banning
at Wilmington. He was there six years, until the completion of the Los
Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, of which he became superintendent in
1870. Later he was division superintendent of the Southern Pacific Com-
pany and the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and continued a
leading figure in railroad and other financial affairs in southern Cali-
fornia until he retired in 1891. He had more mileage under his super-
vision than any other superintendent in the United States. His home
was at Wilmington until February, 1874, when he removed to Los An-
geles. He served as treasurer of Los Angeles County from 1876 to 1878.
He declined nomination for Congress, being too busy with his railroad
duties to accept the honor. He was at one time brigadier general in
the National Guard of California. General Hewitt was the first master
of Wilmington Lodge of Masons and was a Knight Templar in that
order.
At Wilmington, in October, 1866, he married Miss Susan Garrett, a
native of Arkansas. She died at San Francisco November 13, 1907. Mr.
and Mrs. Hewitt had three children : Rowena, who died at Bakersfield,
California, June 13, 1905 ; Richard H., now living in Youngstown, Ohio,
and Mrs. Phineas W. Bresee of Los Angeles.
Sylvester L. Weaver is one of the most widely known, business
men and citizens on the Pacific Coast, though when he came to Los
Angeles, less than twenty-five years ago, he was satisfied to work as an
office boy.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, July 7, 1878, a son of Frank
M. and Jane (Laflin) Weaver. Equipped with a grammar and high
school education, be reached Los Angeles in 1895, and soon afterward
became office boy with a local branch of a San Francisco manufacturing
concern. While known in later years as a man of wide and diversi-
fied interests, Mr. Weaver made his primary success by keeping close
to the work which destiny assigned him. He was advanced eventually
to the position of sales manager for the San Francisco house and
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built up a large business largely through his personal following. He
resigned in May, 1910, to go into the same business for himself, estab-
lishing the Weaver Roof Company, of which he is president and general
manager. This company are manufacturers of roofings, building papers
and paints, and the product is now shipped to all parts of the southwest-
ern states, the west coast of America and to South America. The
business is one employing a hundred ten people. Mr. Weaver is
also a director of the Los Angeles Pacific Navigation Company and
served two terms as president of the Building Material Dealers' Asso-
ciation.
He is one of the most prominent members of the Chamber of
Commerce, is a vice president, is managing director of the Trade Ex-
tension Bureau of the Chamber, also chairman of its Foreign Trade
Committee and chairman of the Building Development Board. He is
a director of the California Development Board, and during the war
was regional advisor for the War Resources Committee for ten counties
of southern California. He is a director of the Commercial Federation,
was a director of the San Diego Exposition, is a past president ot the
Rotary Club, is a director of the Los Angeles Council of Boy Scouts,
and a member of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Brent-
wood Country Club, Rotary Club, Golden State Lodge No. 358, A. F.
and A. M., a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the
B. P. O. E. No. 99. At the municipal primaries May 6, 1919, Mr.
Weaver was one of a number of candidates for mayor, and stood third
in the number of votes. He is a Presbyterian.
June 2, 1902, at Santa Barbara, he married Mabel Dixon. They
have four children : Sylba Titian, born in 1907 ; Barnaby Sylvester,
born in 1908; Rosemary Patrice, born in 1910, and Glendening Winsted,
born in 1912, all students in the public schools.
Joseph F. Rhodes is a building contractor with a long list of in-
dustrial, business and residence construction to his credit in California.
He served a thorough apprenticeship at the business and is regarded
a master of building technique, as well as highly capable executive and
leader of men.
He was born at Chicago November 18, 1881, and was given a
liberal school and university training by his parents, J. Foster and
Margaret (Patterson) Rhodes. He attended the Harvard School in
Chicago until he was twelve years old,. and was then sent to St. Paul's
School at Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from St. Paul's
in 1899, and entering Yale University, received his Bachelor of Science
degree in 1903. As a means of learning the contracting business he
entered the services of one of the greatest contracting firms of America,
the George A. Fuller Construction Company, at New York City. He
was in the estimating department of this company and also in outside
work as material clerk for one year. He then came to Pasadena, spent
one year as manager of the Blow Planing Mill, and for two years was
in the credit department of the Baker Iron Works at Los Angeles.
Having properly rounded out his training and experience, he became
engaged in the contracting business for himself. Mr. Rhodes erected
the factory of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company at Los Angeles, the
Hertel Building in Pasadena, and has built many business blocks, apart-
ments, houses, hotels, and some of the fine residences of southern
California.
He is a member of the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association,
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the Los Angeles Realty Board, California Yale Club, California Club,
Ceritos Gun Club, Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena, and is a Republican
and Presbyterian.
At Pasadena, February 14, 1906, he married Louise Bond. They
have four children : Foster Bond, born in 1907 ; Robert E., born in
1910; Kenneth O., born in 1912, and David E., bom in 1915. The
three older sons are students of the Polytechnic Elementary School at
Pasadena, where the family reside.
Otto B. Franz is president of the Otto B. Franz Company, manu-
facturers' agents and merchandise brokers, with offices in the San
Fernando Building, at Los Angeles. Mr. Franz has been a business
man of Southern CaHfornia for a little more than ten years, but both
he and his family have had active associations with the West and South-
west for a long period of years.
Mr. Franz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 16, 1877. He
is the son of Edward D. and Sophia (Deitzel) Franz. This is one
of the old and honored names in the business and social life of the city
of St. Louis. Edward D. Franz was born at Hamburg, Germany, March
20, 1834, and died at St. Louis in February, 1898. On coming to America
as a young man he soon became associated with that great traffic and
transportation that led westward over the Santa Fe trail from Western
Missouri to the city of Sante Fe, New Mexico. He made many trips
over that famous highway, transporting wares and merchandise with
ox teams. That was long before railroads penetrated that section of the
Southwest, and when encounters with hostile Indians were incidental
to such undertakings. He maintained a trading post at Los Lunas,
New Mexico. Later, with Mr. August Nasse, he organized the firm
of Franz & Nasse at St. Louis, the pioneer wholesale grocery house of
that city. The business is still conducted as the August Nasse & Son.
Mrs. Sophia Franz is still living, at the age of seventy-nine, and resides
with one of her daughters at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The city of St.
Louis is the richer because of the long continued residence and business
activities of the Franz family. In 1915 the old Franz homestead, in-
cluding a comfortable old home in a park-like setting of trees, was pre-
sented to the city as a permanent park or playground to be known as
the E. D. Franz Memorial Square. The title was conveyed by Mrs.
Sophia Franz. All the ten children, five sons and five daughters, of
E. D. Franz grew to adult years in that old home and they joined with
their mother in presenting the spot so dear to their early memories to
the city as a playground. Of these children all are still living, except
the oldest daughter, Mrs. Minna F. Kleinschmidt, who died in April,
1906. The others are: E. W. Franz, Mrs. Johanna F. Fiske, E. H.
Franz, Mrs. Amanda F. Wheeler, G. A. Franz, Walter G. Franz, Otto
B. Franz, Mrs. Henrietta F. Holdoway and Mrs. Adelaide Zimmerman.
The only two in California are Otto and Ernest H., the latter a retired
business man of Pasadena.
Otto B. Franz acquired a liberal education at St. Louis in the public
schools, the Smith Academy, the Manual Training School, both branches
of Washington University and the Bryant & Stratton Commercial Col-
lege. From 1899 to 1907 he was in active business as a general mer-
chant in New Mexico and Colorado, and in 1908 came to Los Angelts
and engaged in the business of merchandise brokerage. He was first
associated with Mr. E. T. Lee under the firm name of Lee-Franz
Brokerage Company, then as now located in the San Fernando Building.
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In October, 1915, Mr. Franz bought out his partner, and in January,
1916, S. W. Cunningham became associated with him under the name
Franz, Cunningham & Company. In April, 1919, Mr. Cunningham
withdrew and Mr. Franz later changed the title of his business to the
Otto B. Franz Company. Mr. Cunningham is now associated with the
V. K. Morgan Company of El Monte, California, who specialize in the
packing of California canned fruits and vegetables.
Mr. Franz is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
and the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association. On December 19,
1898, at St. Louis, he married Miss Louise Landry of that city, where
she was born and educated. They reside at 123 North Hobart Boule-
vard, and Mrs. Franz is active in the Parents-Teachers Association of
the Virgil Intermediate School. They have five children, the first four
born at Lamar, Colorado, and the youngest in Los Angeles. All are
now in school. They are: Charles C, Otto B. Jr., Norman L., Louise
C. and Marie S.
W. H. Hay came to Los Angeles in 1880 and almost continuously
from that year to the present has been engaged in the real estate business.
He is one of the veterans in that field, and as an expert in subdivision
work practically has no superior in the state. Again and again he has
exercised a rare skill and foresight in anticipating development and
needs of the enlarging community of Los Angeles, and particularly in
the district known as West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
His efforts and influence have been productive in covering much of
that territory with beautiful suburban homes and highly developed
suburban farms.
Mr. Hay, who is now preparing to retire from active business, was
born at Hamilton, Canada, October 14, 1864. The town of Hamilton,
Ontario, was named in honor of his grandfather Hamilton, who went
to Canada on a sailing vessel from Scotland. William and Hamilla
(Hamilton) Hay, parents of the Los Angeles real estate man, were
both born in Scotland and were married in Glasgow. William Hamil-
ton was a Presbyterian minister, and died of apoplexy while still en-
gaged in that profession in Canada. His widow afterwards came to
Los Angeles, where she died in 1893.
William H. Hay was educated in the public schools of Canada and
was fifteen years of age when he came to Los Angeles in 1880. On
April 8, 1888, he completed his naturalization as an American citizen
before Judge Lucius Shaw, now a member of the State Supreme Court
of California. For about sixteen years Mr. Hay was associated with
J. F. White in the real estate business at 4 East First Street. He
learned the business with Mr. White and afterwards for about ten years
they were associated in partnership as White & Hay. For about ten
years he was associated with C. E. Norton, the firm of Norton & Hay
being located at 318 West Third Street. Their office, occupying the
ground floor of the building there, was the best known real estate
establishment of that time. Since the death of Mr. Norton about
1911 Mr. Hay has carried on his business under his own name.
Mr. Hay became interested in the farm and ranch property at
West Hollywood in 1908 and has developed that district so rapidly that
it is now solidly covered with handsome residences. He also put on the
market the railroad tract adjoining the depot at San Bernardino and
originally owned what is now known as Mar\'gold Acres adjoining the
Rialto in San Bernardino County. His interests during the last several
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years have been chiefly concentrated on a magnificent property in the
San Fernando Valley, bisected by the beautiful California State Highway.
This subdivision is known as Encino Acres and comprised originally
over forty-five hundred acres, being about two and three-quarter miles
square. Mr. Hay also installed aqueduct water through the above tract,
laid out and constructed the streets, and the entire area, now divided
into suburban farms, from five acres to twenty acres, has all the basic
improvements which make such property immediately available to pur-
chasers. He also marketed the hundred sixty acres known as Crescent
Heights, West Hollywood, running along Sunset and Santa Monica
boulevard, but this property is now all sold.
Mr. Hay is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
a life member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, a member of the Auto-
mobile Club of Southern California, the Municipal League, Y. M. C. A.,
and the National Defense League of California. During the war he
donated the use of a sixteen room house on Sunset Boulevard in West
Hollywood to the Red Cross for sixteen months. The West Hollywood
Red Cross Auxiliary was organized there. Mr. Hay is also said to
possess the finest private collection of minerals in California.
Mr. Hay is a widely traveled and cultured gentleman. About ten
years ago in 1908 he made a trip around the world, going by San Fran-
cisco to Japan, visiting the larger cities of China, then to Vladivostok
and across Siberia by the great Siberian railroad to Moscow, visiting
Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, London and thence across the ocean to New
York and across the continent to his home state. Politically Mr. Hay
is a republican and was one of the stanchest supporters in California of
Hiram Johnson.
In 1910, at Los Angeles, Mr. Hay married Miss Katherine Edmon-
son, who was born at Huntington, Indiana, in a house where her mother
is still living. She was educated in Chicago and since her marriage has
become a well known and popular member of social circles in West
Hollywood and Los Angeles. She is a member of the Hollywood Club
and the Ebell Club. Mr. and Mrs. Hay reside at 7940 Sunset Boule-
vard, and have a country home of fifty acres in Encino. Mr. Hay has also
a sister Miss Minnie Grafton Hay and two daughters Ruby and Elizabeth.
Paul W. Schenck is a Los Angeles lawyer, a man of mature
abilities, with a good luisiness, and with all those connections that a
successful lawyer enjoys. It is doubtful if any of his contemporaries
in the profession have a greater variety of experience and did more to
overcome early disadvantages in entering the profession than Mr.
Schenck. A brief recital of his early experiences will doubtless throw
much light on the qualities and character that have made him a pros-
perous lawyer.
Mr. Schenck was born at Albion, Michigan, August 18, 1874, son
of Alonzo and Amanda (Wadsworth) Schenck. His (parents were
both natives of New York State. When Paul was five years of age his
parents moved to the northwestern frontier, locating at Athol, in Dakota
Territory. They were hard working home makers, and for some years
lived with the barrenness of comfort and simplicity that marked all
the homes along the frontier. In those strenuous days every member
of the family had to bear a part. Thus, at the age of eight and a half,
Paul W. Schenck took his first position as cash boy in a racket store at
seventy-five cents a week. He worked only four weeks, and then secured
578 LOS ANGELES
a more profitable connection as cash boy in a dry goods store at a dollar
and a half a week, and stayed on that job five months. He was messen-
ger boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company three months, and
going to Sioux City, Iowa, again took up the duties of cash boy in a
dry goods store for four months, and for eight months was an A. D. T.
messenger. During a brief period of three weeks he was learning the
candy making trade, but so far as known never put that knowledge to
practical account. For nine months he drove a wagon delivering gro-
ceries.
The record of his life so far is devoid of school attendance and
experience. He had picked up much knowledge by the way, and among
other accomplishments wrote a very clear hand. This skill with the
pen brought him a job addressing letters for the M. H. Silberhorn Pack-
ing Company. This was a large meat packing house in the Northwest
states, and Mr. Schenck by ability rose from one position to another
until he was made general office manager of the company. In 1891
he resigned, and in order to familiarize himself with every phase and
department of the packing industry he went back to the bottom of the
ladder as assistant engineer in the ]jacking house. He also operated
the freight elevator, was a blacksmith's lielper, and in 1892 resumed
his duties as office manager.
In April, 1893, the company sent him out to Rodeo, California, to
take charge of their branch establishment known as the Rodeo Packing
Company. He continued as office manager until August, 1893, when
during the panic the company failed. After closing up the affairs of
the office and turning them over to his successor, Mr. Schenck boarded
a train for Chicago, arriving in that city with only twenty dollars in his
j)Ocket, and soon secured a position in a confidential capacity with Eil-
ward Swift of Swift & Company. Three years of hard application to
his work brought a general breakdown of health, and he gave up what
promised to be a large field of usefulness and went out on one of the
Swift & Company's cattle ranches and for nine months was a cowboy.
The company then put him on the pay roll as assistant purchasing agent,
but in 1900 he resigned and left the jiacking industry altogether.
In the meantime, from 1896 to 1898, while in Chicago, Mr. Schenck
studied law in the night law school of Lake Forest University. He
made a creditable record and graduated and was admitted to the Illinois
bar. In 1900 he returned to Los .'Kngeles and. with his brother, Sam
Schenck, formed the co-partner.ship of Schenck, Tatum & Schenck,
engaged in the general real estate business. Then in 1904 he withdrew
from that firm to take up the practice of law, since which time his career
has not been devoid of exciting experience in connection with the prac-
tice of criminal law almost exclusively, which has brought him increasing
connections and associations with prominent professional interests of
Southern California. Mr. Schenck is a member of the legal associations,
the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Union League Club, and is affiliated
with the Elks. At Los Angeles, October 8. 1908, he married Miss
Genevieve Kittrelle.
Fred H. Case, who has lieen a resident of California since 1908.
and has been industrially prominent as a promoter of the beet sugar
industry in Michigan and on the Pacific Coast, was born at Constantine.
Michigan, October 30, 1857, son of Richmond E. and Laura (Hewings)
Case. He is a twin brother of Frank B. Case, a retired naval officer
now living at Los Angeles.
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When Fred Case was six years of age his parents moved to Three
Rivers, Michigan, where he spent his boyhood and received his early
education. During the early nineties at Three Rivers he was editor and
])ubHsher of the Tribune, a daily and weekly paper. He sold this in
1896. At the age of eighteen he had joined the Niational Guard of
Michigan, and rose from private to the grades of corporal, sergeant,
lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and from 1897 to 1901 was
adjutant-general of the state under Governor Pingree.
It was during the Pingree administration that the beet sugar industry
was established in Michigan. About that time the Legislature passed
a bill offering a bounty of one cent per pound as a means of stimulating
sugar beet production and the manufacture of sugar. Governor Pingree
vetoed the bounty appropriation bill and the courts sustained his veto,
but nevertheless from that time Michigan has ranked as one of the
leading sugar states. For several years General Case was associated
with the St. Louis Sugar Company in Michigan. On coming to Cali-
fornia in 1908 he and his brother organized a company and built a
sugar factory at Santa Ana, their partner being H. W. Hinze. This
factory was sold to the Holly Sugar Company in 1915.
In June, 1917, Mr. Case became a partner in the Damon Specialty
Company, which manufactures and sells the widely known Non-Olio
polish.
Mr. Case married, at Three Rivers, in 1894, Mrs. Carrie (Roberts)
Tucker. While in Michigan he was affiliated with the lodge, Royal
Arch Chapter and Council bodies of Masonry, and .is now a member
of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
WiLiAM H. Damun has a personal acquaintance that hardly repre-
sents a tithe of the people who are familiar with his name through the
products of the Damon Specialty Company, of which he is the founder
and inventor of its chief output, "Damon's Non-Olio'' a polish of un-
rivaled qualities and characteristics that have won the appreciation and
testimonials of many of the largest automobile companies.
The Damon Specialty Company has its headquarters at 516 E.
Ninth Street, Los Angeles. Non-Olio polish is now twenty-four years
old. It was invented by W. H. Damon in Chicago in 1894. As the
etymology of the world indicates even to the most popular comprehen-
sion. Non-olio means no oil or grease, and the absence of oil is the
chief characteristic of the polish from the standpoint of manufacture.
The makers also claim for it three items of excellence, that it cleans,
waxes and polishes in one operation, and a number of the largest auto-
mobile manufacturers as well as piano companies and automobile asso-
ciations have called it the "best polish we have ever used."
During the years 1894-95 Non-Olio enjoyed considerable popu-
larity in Chicago as a piano and furniture polish. That was of course
before the advent of automobiles, and its adaptation as an automobile
body polish was of later origin. Non-Olio is probably the only polish
on the market protected by United States Patents. It is protected by
two L^nited States Patents and also by a Canadian Patent. Three
years ago it was manufactured in a small way at Washington and
Lloover streets, in Los Angeles. Then the company moved to larger
quarters at 1103 South Hill, a year later to still larger quarters at 902
South Hill, and on February 1, 1918, the company occupied its present
])]ace at 516 East Ninth Street, where seven thousand square feet of
floor space are used. The company has a capacity of five thousand
quarts per day. Non-Olio is sold in practically every state of the Union
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and all over Canada, and the cessation of the great war means the open-
ing of a great export market.
Dr. William H. Damon, the inventor and founder of Non-Olio
and the Damon Specialty Company, is a native Californian, born in
Napa, March 30, 1873. His parents were Rev. William C. and Amelia
(Bailey) Damon. In 1891 he graduated from high school, following
which for three years he was a student in the scientific department
of Napa College. Then followed an apprenticeship of one year as piano
maker with Hemme & Long Piano Company at San Francisco. For two
years he operated a piano business of his own at Harriman, Tennessee.
The next turn of his fortune took him to Chicago where he was em-
ployed as a piano tuner and repairer by the Shoninger Piano Company
a year, and then as a piano maker by the Bush and Gerts Piano Company
three years. It was during that time that he invented Non-Olio. He con-
tinued as a piano maker with the John Church Company five years. In the
meantime he was studying medicine at the Dearborn Medical College
of Chicago, and graduated with his degree in 1904, following which
he practiced medicine in Chicago four years.
Then returning to California Dr. Damon located at Los Angeles
and resumed his old profession as head piano tuner with the George
Birkel Company one year. He then established a business of his own
for piano tuning and repair work, and made it in a few years the larg-
est enterprise of its kind of the Pacific Coast, requiring the services
of fourteen employes. Dr. Damon sold that business in 1916 and has
since devoted his entire time to the promotion of Non-Olio manufac-
ture and distribution through the Damon Specialty Company.
Dr. Damon is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic
Order. He married at Chicago, June 26, 1904, Grace Nichol, of Kan-
sas City, Missouri, who is a native of Kentucky and comes from one of the
well known old aristocratic southern families.
Fred E. Eisner, a business associate of Dr. W. H. Damon, of Los
Angeles, was born in Bohemia, September 28, 1888, and was about
three years old when his parents, Ludwig and Sophie Eisner, came to
the United Sttaes in 1891 and located in Chicago. He attended gram-
mar and high school in Chicago until 1902, and then went to work in
the jewelry line, a business in which he grew up. He is a member of the
Masonic order. August 21, 1910, he married at Chicago Nettie Spiegel.
They have two children: Morton, born in 1911, and Lucile Marguerite,
born in 1916.
Charles L. Chandler. A lawyer of ripe powers and abilities, Mr.
Chandler began practice in 1901, and since 1903 has been a resident of
Los Angeles. The greater part of his professional work has bjen car-
ried on in connection with large business organizations, and he is one
of the leading corporation attorneys of the West.
He was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 30, 1878, but grew up in
Colorado. He attended grammar and high schools at Pueblo, and in
1892 entered the University of Nebraska Preparatory School, studying
mathematics under Gen. John J. Pershing, who was then a first lieuten-
ant of the Tenth Cavalry and Commandent of Cadets at the University
of Nebraska. In 1894 returning to Denver he became a student in
the Woodworth Business College and in 1896 entered the University
of Denver, where he completed the law course and graduated in 193(3.
The following year he spent in post-graduate studies in Cornell Uni-
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versitv, from which he also received the Bachelor of Laws degree in
1901.'
He was admitted to the Colorado bar in January, 1900, and during
a part of 1901-02 was employed by a firm of leading attorneys at
Denver. From Denver he went to New York City and was employed
both as a lawyer and business representative by the Yellow Poplar
Lumber of Ironton, Ohio. The owner and active head of this business
was his uncle, the late F. C. Fischer. During the next year or so he
became an expert in the examination of land titles for the company
through the Southern States and also had duties that took him to the
timber districts of Southeastern and Northwestern states.
Mr. Chandler resigned from the lumber company in 1903 and set-
tled in Los Angeles. For two years he was connected with the firm
of Cochran & Williams and in 1906 became a partner in the firm of
Williams, Goudge & Chandler. This firm represented the interests of
some of the large corporations in the West, including the Pacific Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, the Broadway Bank & Trust Company,
Home Savings Bank and other banks and corporations. With the pres-
tige and experience gained by membership in that firm, Mr. Chandler
since resuming private practice alone, with offices in the Investment
Building, has built up an individual organization that is one of the
foremost in the legal circles of Southern California.
He has served as president of the Seaboard Land Security Com-
pany, as an officer and general counsel of the Midway Light and Povirer
Company, The Needles Light & Power Company, the Seaboard Metal
Works and Orland Land Company, and is in many respects as thoroughly
a business man as he is a lawyer. He has also served as the secretary
of the Republican County Central Committee of Los Angeles County.
Mr. Chandler is a Scottish Rite Mason, was one of the organizers
and former president of the Cornel! University Club of Southern Cali-
fornia, and is a member of the Sons of the Revolution. March 6, 1906,
he married Gisela Pluemer of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Tliey have four
children, Sarah Fischer, Davis Pluemer, Barbara Belle and Meta Lovell
Chandler, and they reside at "Los Ritos" in Verdugo Canyon at Glendale.
Arthur Louis Merry was a popular citizen of Los Angeles for a
number of years, connected with the Department of Public Works, and
widely known as naval veteran of the Spanish-American war period.
Mr. ]\Ierry, who died at his home, 1142 West Fifty-third Street,
March 27, 1919, was laid to rest with Roosevelt Camp of the United
Spanish War Veterans in charge of the services. The casket was draped
with the flag which Mr. Merry raised in Honolulu when his uncle, John
F. Merry, received his commission, and which Mr. Merry lowered when
his uncle retired from the navy.
Arthur Louis Merry was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, April
9, 1871, and represented some of the oldest and most patriotic of Amer-
ican stock. His people have lived in Massachusetts since the earliest
colonial settlement.
His father, Louis E. Merry, was born at Edgecomb, Maine, son of
Captain John and Sarah Ann Merry. A brother of Louis E. Merry
was the late Rear Admiral John Fairfield Merry, U. S. N., retired, who
was a member of the Legion of Honor, a membership that was trans-
ferred to Henry Merry of New York City.
The mother of Arthur Louis Merry and other members of the
family still reside at West Summerville, Massachusetts. Louis E. Merry
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was long prominent in the business and social life of West Summerville.
For nineteen years he was president of the Second Unitarian Church,
was a member of John Abbott and Summerville Lodges of Masons,
of Caleb Rand Lodge No. 197, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
was trustee at*id charter member of the Summerville Hospital Corpora-
tion, trustee of the Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank, trustee and
chairman of the Security Committee of the West Summerville Co-Opera-
tive Bank, president of the Summerville Sons of Maine Club, a member
of the Republican State Committee, trustee of the Boston College of
Physicians and Surgeons, a member of the Sons of the American Revo-
lution, of the Chamber of Commerce, Unitarian Club, Massachusetts
Horticultural Society, sat on the Summerville Common Council in
1887-88, and was a member of the Building Committee which had in
charge the erection of the Carnegie Branch Library of West Sunimer-
ville. The Merry family spent their summer vacations at Merry Island,
at the mouth of the Damariscotta River, near Edgecomb, Maine, where
they owned a country residence. In 1867 Louis E. Merry served as
captain's pay clerk on the United States receiving ship Ohio at the
Charlestown Navy Yard, on which his brother, John Fairfield Merry,
was then a lieutenant. A sister of Louis E. Merry, Mary, became the
wife of Professor Lyman Wheeler of the Boston Conservator^' of Music,
who numbered among his pupils Maud Rees Davie, Adelina Patti and
others who became famous in the dramatic and musical world. The
brothers and sisters of Arthur Louis Merry now living are : Mrs.
Sarah Royal and Miss Mary of West Summerville, Louis Merry of
West Summerv'ille. and Ralph Merry of New York City.
Arthur Louis Alerry attended school at West Summerville, and on
July 2, 1885, graduated from the Highland Grammar School, being first
on the commencement program and reciting the oration on Wendell
Phillips by John Boyle O'Reilly. Mr. Merry had special gifts as a
mathematician. For a time he served as statistician on the Stock Ex-
change and the Chamber of Commerce at Boston. He volunteered for
naval service at the beginning of the Spanish-American war, and was
on duty with the blockading squadron at Cuba. After the Spanish fleet
had been destroyed he volunteered with the crew under Captain Ira
Harris to return to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of assisting in
towing Cervera's flagship the Infanta Maria Teressa to New York. On
the trip the tow-boat encountered a hurricane, and the Spanish flagship
was abandoned and wrecked on the island. As a chief yeoman, Mr.
Merry assisted at the burial of the only naval officer killed in the Spanish-
American war. Ensign Worth Bagley, oldest brother of Mrs. Daniels,
wife of the present Secretary of the Navy. Worth Bagley was buried
on Guantanamo Hill. Incidentally, it might be mentioned that Captain
W. T. Helms, now of Los Angeles, officiated as chaplain at that service.
In 1899 Mr. Merry went to Honolulu as chief clerk to the com-
mandant, his uncle, then Captain John F. Merry, and assisted in estab-
lishing a coaling station which was later maxie a naval station. He also
assisted at the building of the immense docks andHn the survey of Pearl
Harbor.
While in Honolulu he met and on January 26, 1903, married Mrs.
Adeline Inman Merithew. He was mustered out the following June,
returning to San Francisco in October, 1903, and in January. 1904.
establishing his home at Los Angeles. Here he entered the Department
of Public Service and for eleven years was connected with the water
department. He served as adjutant for three years of Roosevelt Camp
of the United Spanish War Veterans.
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Mrs. Merry, whose maiden name was Adeline Inman, was born in
Sacramento County, and comes of a family of California pioneers. Her
father, Joseph W. Inman, crossed the plains in 1853 by way of Salt Lake
to Placerville. Her mother, Minerva Gunter, also came across th; plains
from Wayne County, Ohio, to Placerville, where she met and married
Mr. Inman. Their first child was born at Squaw Hollow, three other
children were born in the Sacramento Valley, and there were three
other brothers of Mrs. Merry and two half-sisters. Senator Jack M.
Inman, who represents Sacramento in the State Senate, is a brother of
Mrs. Merry.
July 31, 1881, Adeline Inman was married at Bishop, in Inyo
County, to William Otis Merithew, an architect and builder. Mr.
Merithew was a native of Maine and died at Los Angeles. They had
two sons, Harry Otis Merithew, born June 5, 1883, at First and Spring
Streets, in one of the old homes of the city, and Percival Inman Meri-
thew, who was born in the old adobe house near First and Broadway,
close to the present site of the Times Building, on November 19, 1884.
Harry Otis Merithew is now associated with his uncle, Claud Inman,
in the Inman Mines Company in Oregon. Percival Inman Merithew
represents the E. K. Wood Lumber Company and other interests at
Phoenix, Arizona.
Mrs. Merry is a member of the Woman's City Club, the Big Sisters
League, the Roosevelt Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans.
For two years she was vice president of the Woman's Police Court Com-
mittee, which Judge White was instrumental in establishing. She is a
member of the Tenth Church of Christ Scientist at Los Angeles.
James Frank Ei-well, employing printer and a former newspaper
man, came to Los Angeles eighteen years ago and established a com-
mercial and job printing business at the corner of Third and Broadway.
He has since made the J. F. Elwell Publishing Company a name signi-
ficant of character, dignity and the highest c|uality in all branches of the
printing art. The business has gradually developed several complete
departments, including job printing, publishing and engraving. Through-
out the history of this concern the personality of Mr. Elwell has been
dominant. He is a man of the broadest technical knowledge and equip-
ment in the printing art, has originality and long experience which
enables him to give type forms an expressive quality that is itself a fine
art.
Mr. Elwell was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, and was educated ii>
the public schools of his birthplace and Camden. He learned the printer's
trade at Bridgeton and subsequently was in newspaper work with The
Bulletin in Philadelphia, and later engaged in the book and job business
as a proofreader. In the early nineties he came West to Arizona, and
at Phoenix was editor and publisher of a weekly called The Independent.
From Arizona he came to Los Angeles in 1902, and ever since that date
has been in the job printing business at 254 South Broadway under the
name J. F. Elwell Publishing Company.
While in Arizona Mr. Elwell was a member of the National Guard
and assistant adjutant general of Arizona, with the rank of major, serv-
ing on the stafif of Governor Oakes Murphy. He was also secretary and
treasurer of the State Commission on Public Institutions for the Insane
of Arizona. He was one of the organizers of the Arizona Society of
the Sons of the American , Revolution and was its state secretary for
several years. His eligibility to membership in that organization is due
to his descent from the Lummis family on his mother's side.
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While in that territory he was prominent in church work. He was
one of the organizers of the Arizona Christian Endeavor Society and
its first secretary, also one of the organizers in Arizona of the State
Baptist Young People's Union, and its first state president, serving for
six years. Politically Mr Elwell is a republican.
He is affiliated with the various Masonic bodies of Los Angeles,
is a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory and Al Malaikah Temple
of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic Club,
is on the Membership Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce, a member of the Temple Baptist Church, secretary of the Los
Angeles Baptist City Mission Society, and treasurer and former pres-
ident of the Los Angeles Baptist Social Union. He is also secretary
and former moderator of the Los Angeles County Baptist Association.
June 28, 1905, he married Miss Catherine Davies of Los Angeles.
She is president of the Woman's Society of the Wilshire Baptist Church.
Their home is at 454 South Gramercy Place. Mr. and Mrs. Elwell have
four native daughters of California, named Edith Catherine, Frances
EHnor, Beatrice Ann and Dorothea Mae.
Captain Clarence Fairchild Smith, who fell in action while
leading his men in the battle of the Argonne on October 1, 1918, was a
very popular and successful young Los Angeles business man, a member
of the automobile distributing firm of Smith Brothers. Even among
such soldiers as the American forces in France proved themselves to be.
Captain Smith was an easily conspicuous leader, and the patriotism that
prompted him to offer his services to his country and the bravery with
which he fought and died comprise a record of which every American
can well be proud.
He was born at Colton, Ohio, January 18, 1883, a son of E. B. and
Flora (Fairchild) Smith, both natives of Ohio and both now living in
Vienna, California. Captain Smith's home during his youth was at
Toledo, where he attended the public schools. At the age of fifteen he
ran away from home to enlist for the Spanish-American war. As a
child he had played and imagined himself a soldier, and was fondest of
military games, and even then a leader among his companions. At the
age of fifteen he stood 6 feet 2 inches and weighed over a hundred eighty
pounds, and therefore easily passed for eighteen at the examination by
the recruiting officers. He spent his time in camp at Chickamauga, and
never saw active service in that war.
Later he entered the Culver Military Academy, in Indiana, and sub-
sequently attended Cornell University. In 1904 he married Miss Susan
Lotta of Toledo.
He was engaged in the real estate business at Mansfield, Ohio, until
coming to Los Angeles in 1908. Here he engaged in the automobile
business, and two years later a brother came from Spokane and joined
him, establishing the Smith Brothers Automobile Company. His brother
is Stanley W. Smith. Captain Smith was prominent in the local auto-
mobile trade, and for one year served as president of the Los Angeles
Automobile Dealers' Association. He was also a Knight Templar Mason
and Shriner, an Elk, a member of the Athletic, Jonathan, Brentwood and
San Gabriel Country Clubs, and in politics a republican. Besides his
widow, he was survived by one son, Edward L. Smith, born October 8,
1911, and just seven years of age when his father was killed in France.
Captain Smith attended the first officers' training school established
on the Pacific Coast, at Monterey, during July of 1917. During the
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following year he kept up his military studies, and at the beginning- of
the war with Germany the following spring he took his examinations
for major and passed. However, he accepted a captaincy in order to
get into the service at once. But for more than a year he had to curb
his patience as best he could and be satisfied with duties assigned him
on this side of the water. In May, 1917, he was ordered to the Presidio,
where he became an instructor in the officers' training school. August
29, 1917, he was ordered to Camp Lewis, at American Lake, in Wash-
ington, where he remained until the end of June, 1918. At Camp Lewis
he was appointed adjutant of the Three Hundred Sixty-first Infantry, a
unit of the famous Ninety-first Division. It was on July 4, 1918, that
Captain Smith finally embarked for France, and soon afterward was
hard at work at intensive training immediately behind the lines. Then
in September his division moved toward the front.
It is most appropriate tp take some space to quote a letter written
by his friend, Frank P. Doherty, captain of Machine Gun Company No.
261, and later a major in the same regiment as Captain Smith. Captain
Doherty, who was a personal witness of some of the concluding scenes
in the experience in which Captain Smith lost his life, says in the course
of his letter: "First I must state that none of us knew just how we
would act under fire. It was a matter of speculation as regards our-
selves, as well as other officers in our regiment. Those who appeared
bold and defiant ten miles from the enemy grew less blood-thirsty as the
regiment advanced to its place for the attack. With Clarence it seemed
to make little or no difl:'erence. He was always the jovial, ha])[)y, ener-
getic, playful and tireless worker. He was the one officer universally
liked and respected throughout the regiment by every man in it. I re-
member him so distinctly the afternoon before the end."
Then, after describing the position of his own company in the ad-
vance salient where they were exposed to the intensive fire from the
German guns on three sides, he continues: "Out of the whistling,
bursting, tearing, shrieking inferno I heard some one right back of me
shout 'Pat, Where's the colonel?" There was Clarence. Whether he
had slipped away from the colonel or vice versa I can not state. Both
of them were for the firing line ; dugouts in the rear were not for their
kind. When I responded that I had not seen our colonel for nearly aa
hour, Clarence replied, with all of the mischievousness of a boy hooking
school, 'Hell, I am going with you.' I did not take him seriously at
that time, and as the Hun was giving us all he had, I was too busy to
notice until we had gone forward about five hundred yards. Then, to
my surprise, as I was crawling up to the crest of a small hill to locate
some of the enemy machine guns that were just raining bullets on us,
and while the high explosives, shrapnel, whizz-bangs, G. I. cans and
gas shells were ripping us wide open, I felt some one throw himself
down beside me and shout in my ear: 'To hell with this office work;
this is the life for me.' He was unarmed in the front rank of the assault
troops, voluntarily and from choice. There was no show or bluster. He
was a fighter, pure and simple ; he could not stay behind. He continued
to advance with my company until the Hun threw down his guns and
ran to our men, arms upraised, shouting 'Kamrade.' We gained the
ridge and — we held it. An army officer in a high command, in speaking
of our advance on this occasion, said : 'I never witnessed anything like
it. Not a man turned to the rear.' A captured German officer said:
'You are all crazy.' I will not pass judgment on the statements of either;
both may be correct, but we won."
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A terrific toll was taken from the Ninety-first Division in the battle
of the Argonne, and on two successive days two majors were killed, and
on the afternoon of the 1st of October, Captain Smith was appointed
major and put in command of the Second Battalion. Continuing the
account of Captain Doherty : "He immediately went to the firing line
to cheer up the tired, worn, wet and hungry officers and men. He was
in it with his whole heart. About one hour after assuming command a
high explosive shell hit about fifty feet from him and, with his face
toward the enemy, our good frjend Clarence fell, gave scarcely an
audible sigh, and there passed out a brave, cheerful and unselfish soul.
His body apparently bore no wound. He was too far from the shell to
be killed by shell-shock. It is the general belief that a large piece of
the shell hit him over the heart. Whatever it may have been, it resulted
in immediate unconsciousness and death in a few minutes.
''I relate the above in some detail because it is personally known to
me, and I am conveying it to you so that those who- were near to him
may know that in the hour of the supreme test he was true to his duty
and an example to his men. The belief and trust of his family, relatives
and friends were not misplaced in him."
Captain Smith was buried in France on the battlefield, but later his
body was removed to the American cemetery at Cierges, Ardennes.
John Daggett Hooker. The New England genius for invention
and business, exemplified in an eminent degree by the late John D.
Hooker, found a most fertile field when it was transplanted from his
native heath to the kindly soil and climate of California. John D. Hooker
was a resident of California half a century, was a pioneer in time and
also in many lines of business, gained a fortune, and dispensed it so
wisely and liberally that he has well earned the title of philanthropist.
He was seventy-three years of age when he died at his residence in
Los Angeles May 24, 1911. He was born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire,
May 10, 1838, son of Henry and Mary (Daggett) Hooker. He had a
liberal education, attending Hollister Academy and Williams College.
At the age of twenty-three he came West to California, locating in San
■ Francisco, and from that time forward was seldom away from the
Pacific Coast, except on business trips to the East and abroad. From
1861 to 1876 he was a hardware merchant at San Francisco. In 1885
he established a factory for the manufacture of steel pipe at Los Angeles
under the name of The J. D. Hooker Company, and as its president he
made that one of the largest and most important concerns of its kind in
Southern California. In the year 1888 he invented a riveting machine
and also a patent enamel coating for water pipes. In 1895 he became
vice president of the Baker Iron Works, and became president of the
Western Union Oil Company in 1900. The John D. Hooker Company
was dissolved in 1908. About a year before "his death he retired from
active business, resigning his post as vice president of the Baker Iron
Works.
There were many interests which distinguished John D. Hooker from
the ordinary successful business man. He served as a member of the
Board of Directors and as vice president of the Southern California
Acad my of Sciences, and was deeply interested in scientific research
and h-d'the friendship of many eminent scholars. Probably his greatest
interest was in astronomy. Through his generous contributions he did
much for the furtherance of research in that science. The chief object
of these contributions was the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. His
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total gifts to that institution aggregated about a hundred thousand dol-
lars. He was the donor of the great lens and mirror known as the
Hooker Lens, which were prepared for the observatory, and he displayed
all the eagerness of a youth in every phase of this equipment, and only
a few days before his death expressed himself as hopeful that the work
would be finished in order that he might know what secrets of the
heavens would be revealed through the new equipment. He also en-
joyed the friendship of many men prominent in Los Angeles life, and
especially was a frequenter of the quarter's of the California Club and
the University Club. He did much for charity, but on this score the
extent of his donations was known only to himself. In politics he was
a republican.
August 26, 1869, Mr. Hooker married Katharine Putnam of San
Francisco. Since his death his widow and daughter have made their
home in San Francisco. The daughter is Dr. Marian O. Hooker, who
makes frequent trips to Los Angeles on matters connected with her
father's estate. The office of the Hooker estate is in the Marsh-Strong
Building.
Frederic Hooker Jones laid the foundation of his prosperity in
his native New England, but for over fifteen years has been a resident
of Los Angeles, and in many ways has participated in the business and
financial affairs of his community.
He was born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, November 30, 1866, son
of Henry Mason and Julia (Hooker) Jones. His mother was the oldest
of the nine children of Henry and Mary (Daggett) Hooker, a pioneer
family of old New England, which in colonial times settled and still
owns a place at Hinsdale. Several of the Hookers were Revolutionary
soldiers. She was also a sister of the late John D. and Henry C. Hooker
of Los Angeles.
Frederic Hooker Jones graduated from the Hinsdale High School
at an early age and passed the state examinations for registered phar^
macist. He had a successful business career in his native town for a
quarter of a century, and in the fall of 1902, having sold his interests in
the East, he came to Los Angeles. Here Mr. Jones was associated with
B. R. Baumgardt in the Baumgardt Publishing Company. After the
retirement of Mr. Baumgardt he became manager and president of that
well-known business. For several years he was also associated wifh
the California Auto Company, later selling his interests. He was also
associated with the J. D. Hooker Company. He is now practically retired
from active business, but has many investments in Southern California.
He spends much of his time at his country places in the Sierre Madre
district, where he practices agriculture and horticulture, having some
groves of lemon and grapefruit. During the World war he gave liberally
of his time and means to the promotion of various patriotic causes and
campaigns. Politically he is first and always a republican. Mr. Jones
in Masonry is affiliated with Golden Gate Lodge, Signet Chapter R. A.
M., Golden West Commandery K. T., and Al Malaikah Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a number of Lodge No. 99 of the Elks at
Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
At Ware, Massachusetts, in December, 1893, he married Miss Alice
Spencer, daughter of James and Jane (Dickinson) Spencer of Hinsdale,
New Hampshire. Hers was another old and prominent family of Hins-
dale, and some of her ancestors played rotable parts in the Revolutionary
and Indian wars. Her maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Dickinson, was
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massacred by Indians near Northfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Jones is a
graduate of the Northfield Seminary of Massachusetts and was an early
member of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles, for many years was vice
president of the Humane Society for Children, and has cultivated many
civic and philanthropic interests.
Malcom McLaren for a number of years worked at the stone cut-
ter's trade. He could cut curves and straight lines in stone to the admira-
tion of his fellows. Behind his skillful hand was a warm heart and a
keen and penetrating intelligence and fine imagination. He was doubt-
less doing a great deal of thinking all those years he followed his trade.
He was born in the city of Ottawa, Canada, July 10, 1865, son of
Malcolm and Catherine (Paul) McLaren. His father was at that time
a resident of Chicago and the mother was visiting in Ottawa at the
time of his birth. Malcolm, Sr., was a native of Scotland and at the
age of seventeen had gone to Australia as a gold seeker. The story is
told how after ten years of hard work he had accumulated a modest
fortune of eleven thousand dollars. He left Australia for New York
with his gold in a chest. On arriving at his destination he had a chest,
but it contained no gold. He had to begin life all over again, and the
incident is told because of its significance for Malcolm McLaren, Jr.
His father conducted a stone cutting contracting business in Chicago
for a number of years, and there Malcolm attended school to the age
of ten, when his mother died. His father then went to Des Moines,
Iowa, and became superintendent of construction for the Iowa State
Capitol. For about a year Malcolm, Jr., lived with his father's friend
Archie Henderson, on a farm near Des Moines, and attended district
school. Being dissatisfied he ran away and lived with the Quaker
family of H. M. Whinery for several years. He wanted to do better
than he could do in the circumscribed position of a countr}- farm and
again running away he returned to Chicago and spent a year learning
carriage blacksmithing with the Abbott Bugg}' Company. Meeting with
an accident he joined his father, who in the meantime had completed
the State Capitol and was building the State Prison at Anamosa, Iowa.
Young McLaren then engaged with J. A. Green Company, stone con-
tractors at Stone City, Iowa, and for three months while learning his
trade worked at fifty cents a day. He then began a four years appren-
ticeship with Hubert ("halker, stone contractor, at Minneapolis, but
after three years had made such progress that he was given a journey-
man's wages of four dollars a day. His next place was at Bedford,
Indiana, where he worked as stone cutter on piece work making eight
dollars a day. In September, 1884, he returned to Chicago as a stone
cutter and in December, 1885, upon his father's death he went to Ana-
mosa, Iowa, and was assigned the task of teaching prisoners in the
State Prison the art of stone cutting. With a change of administra-
tion he was let out of the work May 1. 1886, and then returned to Chi-
cago and resumed his trade, which he followed until 1899, when his
health being impaired by the nature of his employment, he gave it up
permanently.
A few years ago Mr. McLaren explained to a correspondent how-
he happened to follow his present line of work. He said: "I think it
was always a desire to get at the truth. When I was a little lad I used
to think how I would have solved the mystery of who got my father's
gold, and later, when I heard the stories of men in the penitentiary, it
was more with the idea of vindicating the innocent than convicting the
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guilty that I thought I would like to be a detective. So you see it
was still wanting to get at the truth."
He began his new profession as an employe of the Mooney &
Boland Detective Agency at Chicago. He had all the natural gifts and
equipment for his work, including a dogged persistence which has not
been excelled by any detective in fact or fiction. At that time he
attracted the attention of the celebrated W. J. Burns, and in August,
1910, joined the Burns Detective Agency and was soon afterwards
assigned the chief role in the case, probably the most celebrated in
American annals of crime. This assignmenf came in December, 1910,
when Burns put McLaren on the hunt for the perpetrators of the Los
Angeles Times dynamite explosion. He never left the case night or day
until the arrest of J. B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal at Detroit,
on April 12, 1911. The story of this hunt has been frequently told. The
first month he spent at Cincinnati, covering the home of J. B. McNamara.
He then kept the McManigal home in Chicago under his personal sur-
veillance. The 'McManigal home was on Sangamon Street near Van
Buren in Chicago. February 23, 1911, he first saw McManigal and
wife and McNamara and lady leave this house and go to the Star and
Garter Theater. February 24, 1911, McManigal left the house with
McNamara. They carried four packages twelve inches square. McLaren
shadowed them to the Iroquois Iron Works, at Stony Island Avenue,
where they left the packages, and at 10:30 that night Mr. ;McLaren
heard the explosion in the works. The dynamiters after leaving the
iron works returned down town, McManigal to his home and McNamara
to the Best Hotel. For some days after that Mr. McLaren was em-
ployed in working up various angles of the case. On March 24, 19n,
McManigal left his home in Chicago in the night and went to Spring-
field, Massachusetts, where he blew up the Municipal Tower, on April
7, 1911. McManigal returned to Chicago, and on April H, 1911, left
for Toledo, arriving in that city at 7 :45 p. m., where he met J. B.
McNamara and both stopping at the Meyerhoff Hotel, where they were
assigned Room No. 11. Next they went to Detroit, and here, all the
various lines of evidence having been formulated, Mr. McLaren, assisted
by Raymond Burns, Billy Read and Guy Bidenger, captured the men
in the Oxford Hotel. After the arrest McLaren so impressed McManigal
with the knowledge of all his previous movements that McManigal
finally blurted out all that McLaren did not know and '"wished to know."
From Detroit the dynamiters were removed to Chicago and arrived in
Los Angeles April 26, 1911. They ])leaded guilty December 5, 19n.
In the meantime Mrs McLaren had been appointed Chief of County
Detectives of Los Angeles County in the District Attorney's office and
filled that position until January 3, 1915. He then resigned to establish
himself independently, and has since been head of the Malcolm McLaren
Investigating Bureau, and has developed a corps of efficient detectives
that constitute this one of the most reliable agencies of the kind in the
We.st of the entire country.
Mr. McLaren was employed by District Attorney Thomas Lee
Woohvine on the cases of David Caplin and M. -\. Schmidt, who were
a part of the dynamiting crowd. In that investigation he had to go to
Honduras, South America, to look up McManigal, who had been
released and whose services were wanted as a witness. For several years
now Mr. McLaren has been a solicitous good friend of McManigal,
who now lives near Los Angeles happy with his family. In 1917 Mr.
McLaren was engaged by Snohomish County, Washington, to appre-
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hend the L W. W.'s who had killed a number of people at Everett,
Washington.
This brief sketch should not close without a hint of his personal
character, as drawn by a writer in the Sunset Magazine a few years
ago : "The man is tall, slight, wiry, and so quick in his movements as
to contradict his fifty years. His is a countenance to inspire trust. It
shows sagacity, shrewdness, conscience, humor, kindliness verging on com-
passion, and displays relentlessness only when speaking of a man who con-
trives a cold-blooded murder to look like an accident, or of a wretch
who endeavors to cast a burden of crime upon a child. He impresses
one as having the judicial faculty highly dev loped, as weighing things.
It is not difficult to understand his popularity among the unfort nate
class with which his position calls him to deal, for there is in him an
essential fairness which disarms resentment."
Mr. McLaren is a Scottish Rite Mason, an Elk, a member of the
Los Angeles Athletic Club and a republican. He is most devoted to
his home and family. At Anamosa, Iowa, May 9, 1886, he married
Alice McGowan. They have three childr.n : James, born in 1890, served
in the United States Navy during the war and is now connected with
the Standard Oil Company. Robert Lee, born in 1893, is a member of
Company M of the 362nd Infantry, 91st Division, with the Army of
Occupation in Germany. The only daughter, Irene, born in 1901, is
a student in the Glendale High School.
Benjamin Franklin Bledsoe, judge of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of California, has been on the bench
continuously either as a State or Federal official nineteen years. The
modern world appreciates the fact that real ability can not be properly
measured by length of years or age, yet Judge Bledsoe's position is the
more conspicuous because it is one usually associated with the dignity
and weight of years and the wisdom supposed to belong to long life and
study. As a matter of fact. Judge Bledsoe came within the provisions
of the last army draft act, so far as his age was concerned.
Moreover, he is a native Calif ornian. He was born at San Ber-
nardino, Februar}' 8, 1874, jon of a prominent lawyer, Robert Emmett
Bledsoe, and descended from Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, one tini" United States
senator from Kentucky. Judge Bledsoe's mother was Althea Bottoms.
He acquired a liberal education, attending the public schools of San
Bernardiro until 1891, and graduating A. B. from Leland Stanford
University in 1896. In the same year he was admitted to the California
bar and was in practice at San Bernardino in partnership with his father
four years.
•He was first called to th; bench in 1901, when elected judge of the
Superior Court of San Bernardino Countv. He entered u^on his ?ix-
year term in 1901, and was re-elected in 1906 and again in 1912. There
was no opposing candidate when he was re-rlected either in 1906 or in
1912. In 1910 in the state primary election he was nominated bv the
democrrtic party for the office of associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Judge Bledso" resigned as judge of the Superior Court of California on
October 23, 1914, to accept the appointment from President Wilson as
United States district judge of the Southern District of California. He
has presided over that tribunal five years and in every respect has just'fied
the utmost confidence of the legal profession and the general public as
to his ability, fairness and breadth of comprehension in handling the
many matters which usually come before this court.
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Judge Bledsoe is now a resident of Los Angeles, his offices being in
the Federal Building. For several years he served as a director in the
Farmers Exchange National Bank at San Bernardino and is now a
director of the West Coast-San Francisco Life Insurance Company of
Los Angeles. In 1898-1900 he was United States referee in bankruptcy
for San Bernardino County, and as that was largely a judicial office, he
may be said to have been on the bench continuously for more .than
twenty years. For fourteen years he was a trustee of the City Public
Library of San Bernardino, and was president from 1905 until 1913.
He was president of the San Bernardino Y. M. C. A. in 1911-14, and
since 1912 has been a member of the State Executive Committee of the
Y. M. C. A. of California. Judge Bledsoe is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, and has had many of the highest honors ot his
order. He served as grand master of Masons of California in 1917,
and is now (1919) grand commander of Knights Templar of California.
In 1911 he was grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of California.
Judge Bledsoe is also a Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta
Phi. He is a democrat, and in church affiliation a Congregationalist.
December 25, 1899, at Council Blufifs, Iowa, Judge Bledsoe married
Katharine Marvin Shepler. Mrs. Bbdsoe graduated from Stanford
University in 1898. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Gamma. They
have two children, Barbara Shepler and Frances Priscilla Bledsoe.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church was organized early in 1911,
the parish boundaries extending from Hoover Street to Western Avenue,
and from Temple Street to the foothills. It was a part of the adminis-
trative work and church extension carried out by the late Bishop Conaty.
The parish boundaries had previously been included in the pastorate of
Father Murphy of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. The site for
the new church was donated by the Sullivan family of South Hollywood.
The first Mass was celebrated in the partially completed building Decem-
ber 17, 1911, by Father Forde, and the church was solemnly dedicated
February 22, 1912, by the late Bishop Conaty. While only about a
hundred fifty families were comprised in the original parish, the church
has been growing and prospering, and it is now well sustained and a
vigorous organization. In April, 1915, a rectory was begun and was
completed during the same year. The church also has develop ;d some
strong and useful societies, including the Altar Society and the Young
Ladies' Sodality, and also the men's club, known as the Cahuenga Club,
which has done much to provide the social needs not only of the church,
but of the non-Catholic community as well.
The pastor of the church since January 7, 1912, has been Rev. S. F.
Cain, and it has been under his effective and zealous leadership that
the church has had its best growth and effectiveness.
Father Cain was born at New Haven, Connecticut, son of Stephen
and Mary E. (Ryan) Cain. He attended the public schools of New
Haven, graduating from high school .in 1890, and received his literary
education in Niagara University of New York. In 1894 he entered St.
Bonaventure College and Seminary, from which he graduated in 1897.
He took his theological course in the same institution, and on February
22, 1902, was ordained at Niagara Falls by Bishop James Quigley, later
archbishop of Chicago.
Father Cain was assigned to his first duties at Watsonville, Cali-
fornia, as assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church for two years. He was
then assistant pastor at St. Andrew's Church at Pasadena nine months.
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and on January 6, 1906, was appointed by the late Bishop Conaty as
pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church at Riverside. From there he was
transferred to the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at 4950
Santa Monica Boulevard. Father Cain is a member of the Knights of
Columbus.
•Irving E. Ingraiiam. There were two widely distant communities
upon which the life of the late L'ving E. Ingraham was deeply impressed.
One was his birthplace, the scene of his business activities and the
home of his ancestors, Bristol, Connecticut, and the other was Los
Angeles, which, after the choice presented by world-wide travel he
has*' selected as the most delightful place for a home.
Mr. Ingraham was born at Bristol, Connecticut, December 5, 1860.
His grandfather, Elias Ingraham, was a pioneer of Bristol and gave that
little city its chief industrial and commercial character. He was the
maker of the first Ingraham clock and established and built up the
Ingraham clock factory to large proportions. After the death of Elias
Ingraham it was carried on by his son Edward E. Ingraham. The Ingra-
hams were all men of fine calibre, highly respected and beloved in their
communities and all of them married women who were daughters of
prominent men.
Irving Ingraham, son of Edward E., was educated in the schools
of Bristol and also attended a military school for several years. He
left school to enter his father's business. He had two brothers and
two sisters. The three brothers carried on the clock business after their
father's death, and that business was the source of the fortune which
Mr. Irving E. Ingraham used so wisely and so well.
For a number of years he had lived retired from business and he
and his wife spent much of the time in travel which took them to
every ,part of the civilized world. They were travelers over both the
conventional and the unfref|uented routes of world journeys again and
again. Finally their quest for the most beautiful land in which to live
brought them to Southern California, where they located permanently
in 1897.
Mr. and Mrs. Ingraham were married July 21. 1893. While they
had no children of their own, they had many nephews and nieces, and
derived a great deal of happiness from these younger people. Mr.
Ingraham was a great hunter and a member of various hunting clubs.
In selecting a home at Los Angeles he located at 2000 West Adams
Street. While that is now in the most exclusive section of the city,
at the time of Mr. Ingraham's purchase of a large acreage the site was
a barley field. It was not accessible to gas nor electricity, and only
a water supply was provided. The first year Mr. Ingraham and wife
planted thousands of small pines, and now after twenty years the pines
have become large and stately trees and underneath is a perfect carpet
of pine needles. It is probably the only cultivated pine forest in South-
ern California. Later in their travels they selected the rarest blooming
plants, and many choice varieties of fruit trees and other exotics. These
are now splendid adornments of the spacious grounds. One tree on the
grounds is the Australian strawberry tree, standing six or eight feet
tall. There are many rare varieties of the guavas, also the Avocado
pears as tall a;, the pines, and it would require a horticultural and
botanical expert to properly enumerate and classify all the splendid
flora found in luxuriance at the Ingraham place.
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The house is a spacious mansion on a hill, from the windows of
which a view is cammended down the slopes into the gardens and for-
ests. The basic principle of the entire arrangement of the house was
"for comfort." At the driveway is a house with perfect, spacious and
comfortable quarters for the servants, where all the cooking for the
menage is done. The central and dominating feature of the residence
quarters is the great living room. It has, of course, a fireplace, where
pine logs and pine needles are burned. Each reading chair, and there
are man}' of them, has its own individual reading lamp. The late Mr.
Ingraham and Mrs. Ingraham found their greatest pleasure in their
home and their ample means enable them to provide it with facilities for
comfort, while their good taste avoided the impression of extreme or
fantastic luxuries. The late Mr. Ingraham was one of the most hon-
orable of men and respected and loved by all. His public spirit doubt-
less found its chief expression in the Los Angeles Symphony Associa-
tion of which he was one of the founders and he was always a warm
sympathizer with its aims and a generous contributor to its purse. It
was largely due to his initiative, enthusiasm, that the Association has
grown in artistic fulfillment and also in financial strength. When Mr.
Ingraham passed away he requested that no tomb be placed above his
grave. Recently as a fitting memorial Mrs. Ingraham subscribed five
thousand dollars for a life membership in the Symphony in his name.
She had previously subscribed a similar amount for a life membership
of her own. The Los Angeles Symphony had its first home in the
Mason Opera House. When Clune's Auditorium was built it was
largely due to the encouragement and initiative of Mr. Ingraham that
the Auditorium became the new home of the orchestra. Other mem-
bers of the association hesitated on account of the expense, but he
declared that the best was. none too good for such an institution and
his convictions and enthusiasm carried the day.
Mr. Ingraham was a member of the California Club, of many
hunting clubs, and was very fond of outdoor life, including the sports
of tennis, golf and hunting. He knew many of the great artists. Fre-
quently in former times Paul de Longpre would ride over on his bicycle
from Hollywood and enjoy the comforts and good society of the
Ingraham home. Mr. Ingraham died in August, 1912. ,
Andrew Jame.s Copp Jr. The name Copp has been prominently
identified with the law and business affairs of Los Angeles for over
thirty-five years. Andrew James Copp Jr. is a lawyer, and has also
spent many years in the California National Guard, and quite recently
was discharged from active duty as a lieutenant-colonel in the judge
advocate general's department, United States Army, at Washington.
Mr. Copp, whose law offices are in the Copp Building, was born at
Millerton, Dutchess County, New York, October 15, 1880, and has
lived in Los Angeles since he was four years of age. His parents are
Andrew James and Carrie Pettee (Bostwick) Copp, who have been
residents of Southern California since 1884. His father graduated from
Yale University with the degrees A. B. and M. A. in 1869, studied law
in the Columbia University Law School, and was a practicing lawyer
in Los Angeles from 1884 to 1892. His chief business in Southern Cali-
fornia, however, has been handling his own investments and the buying
and selling of real estate. He put up the Copp Building at 218 South
Broadway in 1896, and he and his wife still own that property. He
was also chairman of a special committee appointed by the mayor in
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1895 to provide employment for the many who were out of work during
that financial crisis. He and his wife reside at 1222 Ingraham Street.
They had a family of five children: Eddie, who died at the age of
twenty-^ve ; Carrie Bell, who died at the age of ten; Andrew J. Jr.;
WilHam W., in the mining business in Arizona, and Joseph P., who holds
a permanent position as a lieutenant in the navy and is on duty with
the U. S. S. Beaver at Honolulu.
Andrew J. Copp Jr. was educated in the grammar schools of Los
Angeles, graduating in 1895, and was prepared for college in the Boston
Latin School at Boston, Massachusetts, where he completed his work
in 1899. He received his A. B. degree from Stanford University of
California in 1902, and studied law at the University of Michigan. In
1902-03 he was a teacher in the Harvard Military Academy at Los
Angeles, being head of the Latin and Greek department and physical
training, and in 1903-04 taught Latin and physical geography in the Los
Angeles High School.
Admitted in 1904 to the California bar, he was also admitted to
practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1919. During 1904-05
he was in the office of Oscar Lawler, and since then has handled an
individual practice. While his work as a lawyer has been of a general
nature, he has avoided criminal cases, and also clients from orientals or
colored people.
Colonel Copp was a member of the National Guard of California
fourteen years, with the ranks of first lieutenant and captain in infantry,
and was also major in the judge advocate general's department. He
was on active duty with the United States army from July 30, 1918, to
November 29, 1919, as major and lieutenant-colonel in the judge advo-
cate general's department, spending six months in the field and ten months
at Washington. He now holds a commission in the Officers' Reserve
Corps. He returned to Los Angeles with his family on December 5,
1919, and soon afterwards opened up his law office in the Copp Building.
Politically he is a republican. He served one term of two years
as a member of the Board of Education from July 1, 1915, to July 1,
1917. Two years preceding that he had been a member of the Municipal
Charities Commission. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of
Al Malaikah Temple of the Shrine, and the Royal Arch Chapter. He
is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, belonging to
the Los Angeles Chapter, served as a director of the Chamber of Com-
merce three years, and is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Los
Angeles County Bar Association, the Officers' Club of Washington.
Colonel Copp, who with his family resides at 314 South Union
Avenue, married, at Los Angeles, November 26, 1912, Miss Cora East-
man Lord. She was born and educated at Conway, New Hampshire,
and is a graduate of the Robinson Seminary, at Exeter, in that state.
Mrs. Copp and the children were with her husband while he was
absent on military duty in Alabama and Washington. The two children
are Andrew' James III, born in 1913, and Jane Pendexter, born in 1917,
both natives of Los Angeles.
Judge W.\lter Bordwell. California has no more honored figure
among its lawyers and public-spirited leaders than Judge Bordwell of
Los Angeles. He came to Southern California thirty years ago, and is
still carrying the burdens of a large private practice.
He was bom on a farm in Eckford Township, Calhoun County,
Michigan, in 1858, son of Charles M. and Eliza (Ingersoll) Bordwell.
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He was educated in public schools, in Olivet College, at Olivet, Mich-
igan, and in Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York.
His early j'ears were spent in commercial pursuits, and he prepared for
the bar as a student in the law office of Samuel J. Kilbourne, at Lansing,
Michigan. He was admitted by the Michigan Supreme Court October 11,
1888. Early in 1889 he came to California and was admitted to the bar
in this state, and in the same year admitted to practice in the Fedci-al
Courts. He enjoyed a general growing practice until he was appointed
judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County by Governor Pardeo
in 1905, and in 1906 was elected for a full term. He served on the
Superior bench until he resigned January 1, 1913, and has since resumed
private practice. In 1914 he was a candidate for chief justice of Cali-
fornia. He is now senior member of the well-known law firm of Bord-
well & Mathews, and they represent a complete organization of lawyers
and a broadly efficient legal service. Their large suite of offices are in
the Merchants National Bank Building.
July 18, 1883, Judge Bordwell married Miss Mary E. Willis. Tliey
have one child, a daugher, named Helen.
Fred H. Sor.oMON. From a penniless newsboy on the streets of
San Francisco, to the "Dance King of the West" has been the rapid
rise within a little more than two decades of Fred H. Solomon, now
one of the best known citizens of Los Angeles and Southern California.
Absolutely through his own efforts, he has built up one of the largest
amusement institutions of America which furnishes instruction and
entertainment daily and nightly to thousands of Los Angelenans, namely
Solomon's Greater Penny Dance de luxe.
Mr. Solomon was born in San Francisco, August 17, 1876, to
Chapman and Sarephine Solomon. His parents had previously come to
California from Louisiana. His father crossed the plains in the early
days to San Francisco and was engaged in the wholesale jewelry busi-
ness until his death in 1902. The widowed mother is now living with her
son in Los Angeles.
As a boy, Mr. Solomon attended public school in San Francisco
until he was 14 years of age. His first big enterprise aside from the
sale of newspapers was as a traveling salesman covering the state of
Texas for M. J. Brandenstein, a wholesale tea and matting merchant.
He sbld his wares over that great state for over four years, then he
returned to San Francisco to form a partnership with his brother Chap-
man, to engage in the Japanese curio importing business. Fred Solo-
mon was the traveling representative for the firm and was on the road
practically all of every year for a period of twenty years.
i\lter retiring from this field of business endeavor, Mr. Solomon
came to Los Angeles and established what is known as Solomon's
Grand Avenue Dancing Pavilion. Starting out to make his pavilion
the Mecca of exclusive and fashionable society people of the Southland,
he set the regular price of dancing at five cents per couple. There was
not enough patronage at this figure and the prospects for further
continuance of the enterprise were not encouraging, when one day
out of a clear sky came a valuable suggestion from a Los Angeles
newsboy. The little merchant of the streets, used to dealing in pennies
m the selling of his papers, suggested to Mr. Solomon that he inaugurate
a penny dance. This was in 1915 at a time when coppers were just
beginning a popular circulation in Los Angeles. With grave doubts
and considerable misgivings as to the results, Mr. Soloman adopted the
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suggested change, and the consequences have been little short of mar-
velous. During the past two years, he has handled upwards of six
million people at his main gate, has paid over a quarter of a million
dollars for music, and has checked enough hats to supply every American
soldier who took part in the great war with a headpiece. The only
refreshments sold at the pavilion are ice cream and soda water. More
than fifty-six persons are on the Penny Dance payroll which aggre-
gates several thousand dollars a week. Another feature of the pavilion
is the i)opular-priced dancing lessons, ten of which are given for the
ridiculously low sum of one dollar. Every year, more than ten thou-
sand pupils have received instruction in the art of dancing by a staff
of ten highly paid instructors, several of whom receive a salary in
excess of one hundred dollars per week.
The Dance King is particularly noted for his charitable proclivi-
ties. Ever}' holiday season in Los Angeles, the newsboys of the city
look forward eagerly to the annual Christmas dinner given by Mr.
Solomon at which the venders of the different Los Angeles journals are
the honored guests at the pavilion, and are furnished everything to make
that day memorable in their lives. This is only one of many philan-
thropic enterprises with which the Dance King is connected. There is
scarcely a charitable institution in Southern California that has not
received a subscription from "the man who made the penny famous."
During the Fourth Liberty Loan in Los Angeles, Mr. Solomon
bought thirty thousand dollars worth of bonds with fifteen thousand
pounds of pennies. That was the largest purchase in weight of cash
made in the entire United States. For several years Mr. Solomon has
maintained a cot at the new Methodist Hospital for working girls. This
cot was placed at the disposal of the Y. W. C. A. cases, and has taken
care of from one hundred to a hundred and fifty cases every year. The
cot was dedicated to Mr. Solomon's mother, Mrs. S. C. Solomon, who
personally looks after most of the cases. Mr. Solomon is also a veteran
of the Roosevelt Spanish-American War Veterans. He was in the
Spanish-American war in 1898 as member of Battery B. First California
Heavy Artillery.
Mr. Solomon attributes the bulk of his success to consistent and
sensational advertising. More than once, he has made Los Angeles
sit up and take notice with the various stunts he has staged to give front
page publicity to the Penny Dance de luxe. Mr. Solomon has received
many invitations from other cities to come to them and establish penny
dances, and while scores of lucrative offers have been made, he has
persistently refused, insisting that he is anchored to Los Angeles and
Southern California for good and all.
Martha Nelson McCan. By her services at home in Los Angeles
and abroad, Martha Nelson McCan is regarded as one of the most bril-
liant and popular women of Southern California.
Born at Plymouth, Wisconsin, she is a daughter of Horatio Nelson
Smith, a native of Vermont. Her mother, Laura Chase, was a grand-
daughter of Bishop Philander Chase, the first. Episcopal bishop west of
the Allegheny Mountains and subsequently founder of Kenyon College,
a great Episcopal school in Ohio. Horatio Nelson Smith was a Wis-
consin pioneer and was identified with the real building of the North-
west and prominent in politics.
Martha Nelson McCan attended public school at Plymouth, also a
school of the Episcopal Church, and later attended and graduated from
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Milwaukee College, now known as Milwaukee Downer College. She
married George H. Yenowine at Louisville, Kentucky, who was prom-
inent in newspaper work both at Louisville and Milwaukee. After his
death Mrs. Yenowine came to California and became the wife of David
Chambers McCan of New Orleans, a Los Angeles business man.
Martha Nelson McCan was elected president of the Southern Cali-
fornia Woman's Press Club, vice president of the Friday Morning Club
and then president of the latter, serving as chairman of the Publicity
Committee in the suffrage campaign. For years she has written a great
deal for newspapers and magazines, and is still actively identified with
the Woman's City Club, the Friday Morning Club and Woman's Press
Club. When she retired from the presidency of the Friday Morning
Club, Mayor Alexander appointed her on the Civil Service Commission.
She was the first woman to be called to that responsibility, and during
four and a half years she gave her undivided time and talents to the
work, serving as vice president and later as president. She resigned to
go into the Federal Employment Bureau, and when war broke out was
appointed chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Red Cross Chap-
ter. She resigned that commission to go to England to investigate
women's work, going over on one of seven ships in a convoy, and she
was one of fifteen women on board. She spent a brief period of service
in St. Dunstan's Hospital for the Blind Soldiers and Sailors, and was
then assigned to duty at Liberty Hut on the Strand, which had been
established by the Y. M. C. A. as a clearing house for soldiers. On her
arrival in London occurred the first moonlight air raid, and during her
subsequent stay of several months there were many exciting raids.
On returning to this country Mrs. McCan was sent out by the
Bureau of Public Information to speak from the standpoint largely of
her knowledge and personal experience. She lectured all through the
Middle West states and the Northwest, winding up her speaking tour in
California. On returning to her home state she managed the woman's
campaign to elect Mayor Snyder, and at different times has been active
in other municipal and state campaigns in California. She is a resource-
ful publicist, a democrat, and a great admirer of President Wilson and
his administration. Mrs. McCan has been around the world a number
of times.
Hon. Charles Hiram Randall has had a busy and eventful career.
It began as a schoolboy printer on the plains and prairies of Nebraska
while his father was doing missionary work in building up the Methodist
churches there. He still has an active fellowship with newspaper men
and for ten years was a California editor. But the honors and re-
sponsibilities that chiefly distinguish him have been his three terms of
service in Congress as representative of the Ninth California District,
serving in the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses, a
period constituting one of the most critical and significant epochs in
American and world history.
Charles H. Randall was born at Auburn, in Nemaha County, Ne-
braska, July 23. 1865, a son of Rev. Elias J. and Sarah F. (Schooley)
Randall. He had the advantages of the Nebraska district schools to
the age of seventeen. While his father was in charge of a Methodist
church at Table Rock, Nebraska, he went to work as apprentice in the
printing office of the Table Rock Argus, and subsequently was promoted
to the responsibilities of local editor. The office was not a strenuous
one, and except on the two or three very busy days of the week he
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attended school and managed to keep up with his studies. In 1883 his
father moved to Fairmount, Nebraska, and there Mr. Randall was printer
and local editor for the Fairmount Signal one year. His independent
career in journalism began in 1885, when he went to a new county, Kim-
ball County, and founded the first newspaper, known as the Kimball
Observer. He was its publisher and editor and also for three years
assistant postmaster. Selling his paper, he sought a new field at Harris-
burg, Nebraska, and again did some pioneer work, founding the Banner
County News, which was the first paper in the county and was started
when the county had only twelve families within its boundaries. Mr.
Randall sold his interests at Banner in 1891 and for a number of years
was in the Railway Mail Service, running on fast mail trains between
Omaha and Ogden. In 1904 he removed to Los Angeles, and for two
years was advertising manager for the Santa Fe Railroad Company. In
1906 he established the Highland Park Herald, and continued as its
publisher for ten years.
In the meantime his time and abilities were being increasingly taken
up by public responsibilities. In 1909 he was appointed a member of
the Municipal Park Commission of Los Angeles and served until 1910.
In the latter year he was elected a member of the State Legislature and
served in the sessions of 1911 and 1912. Mr. Randall was secretary
of the first progressive regublican local organization in Southern Cali-
fornia, known as the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, which was organized
at Highland Park. In his political work he has been a progressive in
spirit and service, as well as in name.
When, in 1914, Mr. Randall was elected a member of the Sixty-
fourth Congress, he registered as a prohibitionist. He won the demo-
cratic and prohibition nominations, defeating C. W. Bell, and had th^
distinction of being the first candidate of the prohibition party to be
elected to Congress. In 1916 he made the race on all the tickets, being
the primary nominee of the prohibitionists, republicans, progressives and
democratic parties. In the primary election he received twenty-five hun-
dred more votes than all the other nominees put together. The election
in 1918 was largely a duplication of his previous performance, the only
variation consisting in the fact that there was no progressive ticket. He
received the votes of democrats and prohibitionists and had seven thous-
and majority.
Mr. Randall is a Methodist, a member of the City Club and is
affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and Modern Woodmen of
America. At Kimball, Nebraska, November 14, 1885, he married May
E. Stanley, formerly of Gardner, Illinois. They have one child, Violet,
now Mrs. Clyde Cassels of Los Angeles.
GoDFRiiY HoLTERHOFF. Jr., a promjnent official of the Santa Fe
Railway at Los Angeles, has been a resident of the state for forty years
and practically throughout that time actively identified with the prac-
tical and financial problems of railroading.
He was bom at Cincinnati, November 4, 1860, son of Godfrey and
Helena C. (Guysi) Holterhoflf. He graduated fro mthe Woodward High
School in Cincinnati in 1877 and fo ra year or so thereafter was in
several lines of business in Cincinnati.
On account of impaired health he came to California (Los Angeles)
in October, 1879, and after recovering his strength in the fall of 1880,
he became secretary to the managing agent of a syndicate at San Diego
which organized and built the California Southern Railroad which
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later was succeeded by the Southern California Railway Company, and
in 1902 acquired by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Com-
pany and was during the intervening years in various departments of
the railroad, but since 1883 solely in the financial department. In 1893
he was promoted from cashier and paymaster to secretary and treasurer
and later when the road was formally acquired by the Santa Fe Railway.
Mr. Holterhoflf was made assistant treasurer and assistant secretary of
the Santa Fe and in charge of the financial department of the com-
])any in its far western territory. Since then he has become an officer
and director in over thirty corporations, the majority of them con-
trolled by the Santa Fe. He has also given his services as a director or
in other executive capacities to the Brea Canon Oil Company, Kings
County Development Company, East Highland Improvement Company,
California Portland 'Cement Company, Los Angeles Trust and Savings
Bank, Southern Trust and Commerce Bank at San Diego, and has many
important interests in orange groves, oil and land properties, and com-
mercial and manufacturing enterprises. In financial circles ftlr. Holter-
hoft is easily one of the best known men in Southern California.
He is a republican, and in Los Angeles is a member of the South-
western Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the California
Club, Sunset Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Midwick Country Club,
Crags Country Club, Cerritos Gun Club, and the Landmarks Club. He
is also a micmber of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
At Los Angeles September 5, 1889, he married Mrs. Louise SchaeiTer
Lewis. They have one daughter, Leila S. Holterhoff.
Charles N. Wii.li.\ms, clerk of the United States District Court
at Los Angeles, has had a long and varied experience in public affairs
and has been connected with his present office as deputy and in charge
of nearly all the executive and administrative details for a number of
years.
Mr. Williams was born in Humboldt County, California, January
26, 1860, and is the son of a forty-niner. His father, R. M. Williams,
was born in Oswego County, New York, in 1823. He grew up and was
educated rhere, became a druggist, and for several years lived in New
Orleans. On starting for California in 1849 he made the journey across
the Gulf and overland through Mexico, and on the west coast of Mexico
he and his party chartered a boat for San Francisco. He located in
Northern California and operated a pack train between the supply centers
and the mines until 1851. That year he established his headquarters in
Humboldt County and continued in the transportation and mercantile
business until 1854. After five vears in the West he went back East,
again through Mexico, and spent six months in New York. He mar-
ried Olive A. Tiffany. On returning to California he became interested
in cattle and horse ranching and farming in Humboldt County and
also operated pack trains until 1865. That year he moved to Eureka,
and was a merchant until he retired in 1873. The close of his life he
spent in Los Angeles and died in 1875. Of his eight children only three
are now living: Mrs. Cecelia Owen of Los Angeles. Charles N. and
Bertram E., also of Los Angeles.
Charles N. Williams had his first schooling at Eureka, in Humboldt
County. In 1873 he came with his parents to Los Angeles and graduated
from the city high school in 1877. He was a member of the third gradu-
ating class of the high school. After a year in the University of Cali-
fornia, he went back to his old home vicinity at Eureka and operated a
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shingle mill until 1884. Selling out that property and returning to Los
Angeles, he was deputy county clerk for a few months, and then clerk
in the United States Land Office four years. For three years he was
salesman and bookkeeper with H. Bartning, wholesale tea and cofifee
merchant. About that time Mr. Williams entered upon his duties as
office deputy to the clerk of the United States District Court, and for a
number of years handled most of th; detail of the office. In January,
1918, upon the resignation of Mr. Van Dyke, clerk of the court, Mr.
Williams was appointed his successor by Judge Bledsoe and Judge
Trippet.
Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic Order and the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a democrat. He married, at
Los Angeles, August 21, 1881, Miss Lydia A. Raney. They are the
parents of six children: Olive A., at home; Clarence N., in the motion
picture business at Fresno; Ralph S., a farmer in Los Angeles County;
Harold T., who was with the Twentieth Engineers in France, and is now
home ; Paul R. was in the Aviation Corps, stationed at Langley Field, in
Virginia, now also at home ; and Ruth L., who handled the responsibilities
of deputy clerk in her father's office until she married W. L. Refenberick
of Berkeley. Mr. Refenberick is with the Shell Oil Company.
Julius Hauser. A business of most substantial growth and stand-
ing in Los Angeles and representing services and enterprise of a family
of thorough business men is the Hauser Packing Company, the begin-
ning of which was a small meat shop conducted by Julius Hauser at
Sacramento nearly fifty years ago.
Julius Hauser was born in Baden, Germany, January 7, 1847, son
of Michael and R. (Federer) Hauser. It was customary in the German
system of compulsory education for boys to attend the common schools
to the age of fourteen. After reaching that age, Julius Hauser was
put to work on his father's farm. For two and a half years he was a
butcher's apprentice. Having a working knowledge of that trade, he
went at the age of eighteen to Alsace, and two years later his joumeyings
brought him to Zurich, Switzerland, where he continued working as a
butcher. Six months later, having become discouraged at the outlook and
prospect in Europe, he set out for America, returning to Baden long
enough to say farewell to his parents and friends. He sailed for New
York in 1867 and had only four dollars in his pocket when he began
life on American shores. His first employment was on a coal boat on
the Hudson River at a dollar a day. What he considered a better oppor-
tunity to make his way in the New World was an offer as a farm hand
laborer in New York State at the rate of fifteen dollars a month. Then
for a time he worked as a butcher at Poughkeepsie, New York, and
after two years resigned his job and set out for Californir in 1870.
His first experience in this state was in the small town of Wash-
ington, across the river from Sacramento. His modest savings of
seventy-five dollars meant no capital at all in those golden days of the
West, and he accordingly went to work in a meat shop, and at the end
of eight months he bought out the shop at a nominal figure, and from
that time forward there was no question as to his ultimate success. In a
short time he took his brother Valentine into partnership, and continued
the business there for twelve years. In 1882 he sold his Sacramento
interests to his brother.
It was at that time and stage in his affairs that Julius Hauser trans-
ferred his interests to Los Angeles. Here he bought a meat market at
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the comer of First and Main Street, which was his stand for the thir-
teen years following. In 1895 he bought the Mott market, which enjoyed
a period of renewed prosperity as an addition to the rapidly growing
Hauser enterprises.
Julius Hauser really founded the present packing company in 1891,
on West Washington Street, seven miles from the Court House. The
industry grew rapidly, was added to and increased from time to time.
By 1904 it was necessary to seek a new location, and the firm was then
incorporated as the Hauser Packing Company, a close corporation, its
stockholders and officers being Julius Hauser and his sons. By 1906
the plant and stock yards of the packing company, covering twenty acres,
was completed and put in operation. It is one of the largest industries
for the preparation and conservation of meat products in the West, and
prior to the great war did an annual business of more than five million
dollars. The products of the company were exported to many foreign
countries, including England, Japan and Europe. The active officers of
the Hauser Packing Company are Julius Hausejr, president ; E. C.
Hauser, vice president ; H. J- Hauser, secretary ; L. A. Hauser, treasurer,
and F. M. Hauser, superintendent.
Julius Hauser as a conspicuous business man has been a member
of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, the American Meat
Packers' Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Board
of Trade and Retailers' and Jobbers' Association, is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Elks and Odd Fellows.
Julius Hauser married, at Sacramento, September 11, 1878, Caroline
HergeU. To their marriage were born five sons and one daughter. The
sons already named are actively associated in the business and Clarence
F. is deceased. The only daughter is Louise W.
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Kathleen Alice Averill is one of the most competent business
women in Los Angeles. Every one who makes a success in business
must have at least one big incentive. Mrs. Averill confesses that she
had two : A strenuous endeavor to drown the overwhelming grief of
an irretrievable loss, and second, an ambitious determination to make
good as a business woman.
The story of her career is an unusual one. Some people who have
been thrown from circumstances of luxury and comfort into compara-
tive poverty spend all the rest of their lives living in the past. Mrs.
Averill by contrast while keeping green the memory of her happy early
years, has enthusiastically lived for the present, and has made the duties
of the day ever paramount.
Her family name was Enright. She was born at her father's estate
Templemaley near the town of Ennis in County Clare, Ireland. Her
father. Captain Andrew Enright of the Clare Militia, afterwards the
London Irish Rifles, was also born at Templemaley. Her mother was
Alice Greenhill, a native of Canonbury Park, Islington. London, and
daughter of William Greenhill, senior member of the firm of Green-
hill Brothers of the London Stock Exchange. Alice Greenhill had one
sister who married Alfred Cellier, a famous operatic composer of
London and a close friend of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer.
The marriage of Mrs. Averill's parents was a runaway match of
somewhat romantic character. On both sides there were objections
because of the youth of the pair. They eloped from Ireland, were mar-
ried in London at St. John's church, Norfolk Square, and set sail im-
mediately for New Zealand on a sail boat, sailing vessels at that time
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constituting the only means of transportation to that faraway country.
They reached Dunedin, Ntew Zealand, in exactly three months from the
day they set sail from London. Captain, Enright took up sheep farm-
ing on a large scale, and they lived in the wilds of New Zealand for
three years. The oldest brother of Mrs. Averill was born there. In
the meantime there had been a family reconciliation, and Captain Enright
being an only son and child returned to Ireland at the earnest request ,
of his parents. When they returned to Ireland they had traveled com-
pletely around the world on a sailing vessel. Captain Enright then built
up another family estate in County Clare adjoining that of his father.
On the death of his parents he inherited the entire estate, and became
a large landed proprietor. His individual property he called Trina-
derry. He and his family including Mrs. Averill were wonderfully
happy for a number of years. Captain Enright like all the other pro-
prietors of landed estates in Ireland at that time was boycotted, but
manfully tried to overcome the deplorable conditions under which the
landed gentry of Ireland were obliged to live. Finally Kathleen Alice
and her two brothers, very young children, were deliberately set upon
and stoned by the boycotting peasants, and would probably have been
killed had not several of the police known as Irish Constabulary, then
billetted in temporary barracks on the Enright estate, came to their
rescue.
In -disgust at this circumstance Captain Enright moved to England
to a beautiful home called Kempston Lodge, in the village of Kempston,
in Bedfordshire. From private tutors at home Kathleen Alice was sent
to complete her education at a private college in the town of Bedford
called Madame de Marchots French Protestant College. She graduated
there at the age of sixteen. Two years later her father having in the
meantime gone on the London Stock Exchange risked his fortune and
lost, the entire family emigrated to America direct to San Diego, Cali-
fornia. Shortly after coming to California Kathleen Alice Enright met
her husband, Origin V. Averill, an only son of Dr. Maria B. Averill and
Voltaire Averill, and was married. They lived very happily together
for fourteen months, when Mr. Averill contracted typhoid fever, and
Mrs. Averill was left a widow without children.
Such were the circumstances which prompted her to a busmess
career. After a course in the Brownsberger College of Los Angeles,
she went to work with the City Dye Works and Laundry Company,
at that time a verj' small concern, in the year 1901, as stenographer and
bookkeeper. Mrs. Averill has given eighteen years of close application
to this business. It is with no small degree of pride that she has watched
its marvelous growth, under the able direction of the president and
proprietor Mr. J. J. Jenkins (a sketch of whom appears elsewhere).
When Mrs. Averill entered the business it was a small shop, employing
a half dozen people. Now it is one of the most scientific and sanitary
plants of the kind in the United States and has a pay roll of two hun-
dred and fifty employes. Mrs. Averill has been secretary and assistant
manager of the company since 1908, and those who know the business
are aware that she has been very instrumental in its upbuilding.
Mrs. Averill now lives at her beach home which she built a few-
years ago in Venice, and drives back and forth to her work every day
in her Buick car. She was reared in the Protestant faith as an Epis-
copalian, but has no church affiliations at present. The lure of the moun-
tains and the charm of California are the attractions which entice her
and her friends to the country ever)' Sunday. She is a firm believer in
the religion "out-of-doors."
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P. G. WiNNETT. The friends and associates of P. G. Winnett are
not without complete justification in claiming for him a special genius
as a merchant and business organizer. Mr. Winnett started at the ver\'
bottom round of the ladder in mercantile affairs, and it was through the
route of work, a constant and unremitting diligence and study that he
attained his present enviable position.
Mr. Winnett was born at Winnipeg, Canada, April 3, 1881, son of
John W. and Lydia ( Roe) Winnett. His father, a native of County
Clare, Ireland, came to America when a boy and located at London,
Ontario, Canada, where he was a furniture manufacturer. Later he
moved out to Winnipeg, had a furniture factory there, sold it in 1889,
and went to Victoria, British Columbia, where he took up the real estate
business. In 1896 he moved to Los Angeles and was a real estate
operator in this city until he retired in 1905.
During these several sojourns of his parents, P. G. Winnett acquired
his education in the public schools of Winnipeg and Victoria, and soon
after reaching Los Angeles, in 1896, went to work as errand boy in a
dry goods store. There was perhaps nothing in the routine of that store
which was omitted from the program of his experience, and he utilized
every opportunity to acquire further knowledge of the business.
In 1900 Mr. Winnett resigned from his first place of business and
helped organize the Bullock Store. This is one of the largest and finest
stores on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Winnett is vice president and director
of the company and assistant general manager of the entire business.
He is a member of the California Club, Hollywood Lodge of Masons,
the Brentwood Country Club, and in politics is independent. Mr. Win-
nett has a delightful country home at Santa Monica Canyon. The site
is a magnificent one, commanding a twenty-mile view of the ocean and
of the canyon and mountains.
June 7, 1905, at Los Angeles, Mr. Winnett married Helen Hutton,
a native of Los Angeles, daughter of Judge A. W. Hutton. They have
three children : Jack, born at Los Angeles, December 26, 1906, now in
the public schools ; Kate Irene, born at Los Angeles, February 27, 1908 ;
and Glen Helen, born September 8, 1910 , both of whom are students in
the Academy of the Holy Names at Santa Monica.
Milton Lindley, now deceased, merchant and banker of Los An-
geles, California, was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1820,
the son of David and Mary (Hadley) Lindley. He married Mary A.
Banta at Belleville, Indiana, in 1849, and to them were born nine chil-
dren, of whom five are now living. They are Walter, a physician of Los
Angeles ; Hervey, a capitalist of Seattle, Washington ; Albert, a faimer
of Stockton, California; Ida B., professor of Latin in the Whittier Col-
lege ; and Bertha, Mrs. John E. Coffin of Whittier, California.
Mr. Lmdley's paternal ancestors were Scotch and English, while
on the maternal side they were Quakers, of English and Irish extraction.
His father was a farmer, who moved to Indiana from North Carolina
when the lioy was twelve years of age, and there Mr. Lindley received
his education, working on the farm until he reached his majority. He
learned the harness and saddlery making business, and for six years
was engaged in this vocation at Monrovia, Indiana.
In 1850 Mr. Lindley took up general merchandising at Monrovia,
but after four years, on account of impaired health, he moved to Hen-
dricks County, Indiana, and there went in for farming and outdoor life,
returning later to the merchandise business. He remained there for
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twelve years, with the exception of a short absence, when he was sent
East by capitalists of his section to study the new national banking
system.
Upon his return to Indiana Mr. Lindley aided in the organization
of the First National Bank of Danville, Indiana, remaining with that
institution until 1866, when he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He
was in the real estate business there for nine years, or until 1875, when
he moved to Los Angeles, having spent two winters in the latter place on
account of his health.
Mr. Lindley purchased forty acres of land adjoining the western
limits of the city and made his home there until 1882, when he sold the
property. During his ownership he devoted tlie land to iruit culture, but
in recent years it has been transformed into what is called EUendale
Place, one of the handsome residence sections of Los Angeles.
Early in his residence in Los Angeles County Mr. Lindley, a stanch
supporter of the republican party, became a factor in politics. In 1879
he was elected county treasurer of Los Angeles County and served for
three years, holding over one year on account of a change in the state
constitution relative to county officers. In 1884 he was elected a member
of the County Board of Supervisors, serving as chairman of the Fmance
Committee during the years 1885 and 1886. This was the last political
position he held, but he never ceased to take an active interest in the
affairs of the republican party and was one of its advisors up to within
a few years of his death in 1894.
Mr. Lindley is remembered as one of the men who took a prominent
part in the upbuilding ot Los Angeles, which was only a "town of five
thousand inhabitants when he first landed there. He was an enthusiastic
believer in the future of the city and did all in his power to advance its
interests. He was an extremely active operator in real estate, and was
one of those pioneers who aided in making the city what it is today.
While a careful business man, he was also noted for his generosity,
and gave liberally to various churches, charitable and educational enter-
prises, in addition to lending a helping hand to young men in business.
He was a man of great enterprise and public spirit and, besides the part
he took in the actual business development of the city, figured on frequent
occasions in purely civic movements, intended for the general upbuild-
ing of the section.
Mr. Lindley's example has been ably followed by his sons, who
today are among the leading professional and business men of the West.
They are doing their share in carrying to completion the work begun
by their father and other substantial men of his day.
He died in his home at Los Angeles, May 11, 1895, aged seventy-
five years. His widow survived hmi eighteen years, quietly passing away
at the family home November 3, 1913, age eighty-four years.
Mrs. Lindly was one of the founders of the first kindergarten school
in Los Angeles, was very active in establishing the Los Angeles Orphans'
Home, and up to within a short time of her death took a forceful, useful
part in woman's work in this city.
Walter Lindley, M. D., physician and surgeon of Los Angeles,
is secretary and medical director of the California Hospital, one of the
largest and most notable private institutions in America of this character.
He was born at Monrovia, Indiana, on January 13, 1852, a son of Mil-
ton and Mary Elizabeth (Banta) Lindley. Milton Lindley, one of the
pioneers of Los Angeles, was not only a very active real estate operator
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of the city and one of its most eflfective developers, but also county
treasurer, and member of the board of supervisors. Few men of the
formative period of Los Angeles accomplished as much constructive
work as Milton Lindley, and his name is held in grateful remembrance
by the elder generation.
Doctor Walter Lindley, an honored son of an honored father, comes
of the best type of American stock. On his mother's side his ancestors
fought in the Revolutionary, Indian, Mexican and Civil wars, four of
his mother's brothers being United States officers in the latter. After
being graduated from the Minneapolis High School, Walter Lindley
attended Keen's School of Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Long
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, leaving the latter in 1875,
after receiving his degree of medicine, following which he went to Los
Angeles to practice medicine, and since that time has been one of the
greatest factors in the modernizing of that city.
As health officer of Los Angeles, member of the board of educa-
tion and superintendent of the County Hospital of Los Angeles in the
days when the city was emerging from the condition of a Mexican
pueblo, Doctor Lindley did much for the future of the place.
Doctor Lindley was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Orph-
ans' Home, the Los Angeles Humane Society, and the College of Medi-
cine of the University of Southern California, the latter one of the fore-
most institutions of its kind in the United States. He also founded the
Whittier .State School of California, a reformatory institution for the
youth of both sexes, which has been of estimable penologic and educative
value, and served for many years as president of its board of trustees.
His greatest work, however, is the California Hospital.
The California Hospital was built by physicians and surgeons of Los
Angeles in 1897, the spacious buildings being surrounded by ample
grounds for the health and recreation of the patients.
Although during the great war, the hospital was short in attendants,
the superintendent of the nurses at the urgent request of the govern-
ment devoted more than half of her time to enlisting nurses to go over-
seas. Sixty-six of the graduates of its training school for nurses enlisted
and two of them became chiefs of base hospitals. Numbers of the
other employes, and three-fourths of the hospital physicians volunteered
and went across. The California Hospital during the war, at the request
of the Red Cross, took care of a large number of members of families of
absent soldiers at less than one-half of the cost to the hospital of their
maintenance.
Following the founding of the hospital. Doctor Lindley organized
the Training School for Nurses, the first of its kind established in
Southern California. He is ex-president of the California State Board
of A'ledical Examiners ; ex-president of the State Medical Society ; ex-
vice president of the National Conference on Charities and Corrections;
and was appointed by President Cleveland as Pacific Coast delegate to
the great International Prison Congress held in Paris in 1895. He was
in 1895 given the degree of LL. D. by St. Vincent's College.
He is a director of the Fanners and Merchants Bank of Los
Angeles, and holds a position of solid financial integrity. As a member
of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
and chairman of the committee on publications and statistics he has done
much toward the advancement of Southern California. He is one of the
directors of the Los Angeles City Library and is intensely .interested
in having a central library building erected. His learned and facile
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pen has found valuable employment in the Southern California Prac-
titioner, a publication which he created thirty-five years ago, and which
is steadfastly devoted to advancing the standard of the profession of
California.
His literary works include "California of the South," '"Shakes-
peare's Traducers, a Historical Sketch," "Irish Drapia and Irish Dra-
matists," and numerous papers and pamphlets on medical, social and
climatological subjects.
Doctor Lindley is a member of the California University, Celtic,
Sunset and Los Angeles Country' clubs, and the Historical Society of
Los Angeles.
Albert J. Sherer, a native of Wisconsin, has spent practically all
his life in California, and since 1896 has been one of the able members
of the Los Angeles bar.
He was born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, March 27, 1872, fifth among
the thirteen children of Rudolph and Elizabeth ( Snyder) Sherer. His
father was a merchant in the east, and in 1872 settled in Ventura, Cali-
fornia, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles where he died in 1899.
He was a Civil war veteran, serving first with the Tenth Michigan
Cavalry and afterwards in the Commissary Department. His widow
is still living at Los Angeles and in California all the ten surviving
children, six sons and four daughters, have their homes.
Albert J. Sherer was educated in the grammar schools of Compton
and graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1891. He is a
graduate with the degree Bachelor of Philosophy from the University
of California at Berkeley with the class of 1895. He studied law with
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur at Los Angeles. Judge Wilbur is now a Jus-
tice of the State Supreme Court. Mr. Sherer was admitted to the Cali-
fornia bar in 1896 and has handled a civil practice almost exclusively.
His present associate and partner is Robert Young, and they maintain
offices in the Higgins Building. Mr. Sherer is also president of the
Municipal Securities Company of Los Angeles.
Politically he is a republican. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a
member of the various Masonic bodies at Los Angeles including the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Wilshire Country Club,
the Automobile Club of Southern California, and the B. P. O. E. No. 99.
At Los Angeles, February 22, 1899, he married Miss Alma C. Conklin,
who was born in Decatur, Illinois, and educated in Los Angeles, graduat-
ing from the Los Angeles high school in class of 1893. She is a daughter
of Charles A. and Mary E. (Duese) Conklin. Her mother is now de-
ceased. Her father is a retired resident of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Sherer
have one son, Sherman A., who was born at Los Angeles and is now
attending high school.
Homer A. H.xnsen. A.M., M.D. Although he distinguished him-
self as a physician and surgeon during the nine years he was in practice,
Dr. Hansen is best known in California for his important work in the
consolidation and development of several irrigation and power projects
and public utilities.
He was born in Logan, Ohio, November 2, 1872, son of John and
Mary M. (McBroom) Hansen. After graduating from the Logan High
School at the age of nineteen, he spent one year in traveling, largely on
foot and on horseback through the Southwestern and Pacific Coast
States ; and then entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, graduating
in medicine and surgery in 1895. After graduating in medicine, he
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practiced for nine years at Columbus, Nebraska, spending one winter
during that time at the Bellevue Postgraduate Medical School and Hos-
pital in New York City. In 1900 he went abroad and spent six months
in Berlin as student and clinical assistant in surgery to the famous Dr.
Landau, who was then surgeon to the Kaiser and his family. While
there he performed many operii^tions at the Charity flospital^ and
received from Professor Landau a certificate of the highest praise for
skill and efficiency.
On returning to America, he resumed his practice at Columbus,
Nebraska, and remained there until he was compelled to give up his
professional career on account of ill health. In the spring of 1903 the
Northern Illinois College conferred the degree of A. M. upon him.
Dr. Hansen came to Los Angeles in the fall of 1903, and made his
home in the big Tujunga Canyon, where he soon became strong and
well again. While there he saw the possibilities for developing a water
and electric power project, and associated with his brother, Charles,
organized the Tujunga Company, of which he is still president and
treasurer. This company purchased fourteen miles of the banks of the
big Tujunga stream, beginning at a point where the stream leaves the
Angeles National Forests and extending out into the San Fernando
Valley. These lands have since been subdivided, and are known as
Hansen Heights and Tujunga Terrace. This company under the con-
trol and management of Dr. Hansen, controls the water of this stream
for more than thirty-five miles, and owns ten dam and reservoir sites,
lying within the boundary of the Angeles National Forests. The lands
in Hansen Heights and Tujunga Terrace are supplied by water from
the development of the above water supply.
Among his other activities. Dr. Hansen organized in 1905, the
Searchlight Bank and Trust Company at Searchlight, Nevada, and the
Lincoln County Bank at Caliente, Nevada, and was their president until
he disposed of his interests in 1907.
In association with Ex-Governor Crocker of Massachusetts, and
Colonel C. A. Hopkins, of Boston, Dr. Hansen organized in 1905 the
Searchlight and Northern Railroad Company, of which he was presi-
dent during the following two years.
Dr. Hansen is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a
member of the Los Angeles City Club and the Athletic Club. He is a
republican in politics.
The engagement of Dr. Hansen to Miss Marie Adeline Huber,
of Taunton, Massachusetts, has just recently been announced.
Harry E. Moore. While he had some preliminary banking experi-
ence in Minesota, his native state, Mr. Moore for the greater part of
his active career has been in the life insurance business, and for a num-
ber of years has been connected with the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Company of California, of which he is now assistant secretary.
He was born at St. Peter, Minnesota, July 25, 1874, son of Joseph
Knight and Clara (Bjtrton) Moore. His parents were born and edu-
cated in Massachusetts. His father went overland by ox team to Cali-
fornia in 1851. He returned to Massachusetts for several years and
then in the early territorial period became a resident of Minnesota. He
was there in the Indian days long before the building of the first rail-
ways, and he and his family were several times driven from the home by
Indian uprisings. In Minnesota he was editor and owner of several
newspapers, and had the acquaintance and friendship of many of the
notable men of that state.
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Harry E. Moore acquired his early education in public and* private
schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and for a time was bookkeeper
and teller in a bank in the latter city. While visiting his parents in
California he accepted an opening with the Conservative Life Insurance
Company, and subsequently joined the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Company in the San Francisco offices. Mr. Moore is a republican, a
member of the California Club, Los Angeles Country Club and Athletic
Club. He is very fond of all outdoor sports.
July 2, 1906, at Los Angeles, he married Bessie Eloise McCauley,
daughter of J. D. McCgiuley. They have one daughter, Shirley Vir-
ginia Moore.
Frank R. Strong became a modest factor in the real estate busi-
ness of California nearly thirty years ago, and his interests have acquired
increasing importance until today he is senior member of the firm Strong,
Dickinson, McGrath Company, with offices at 1015 Marsh-Strong Build-
ing in Los Angeles. Mr. Strong built the twelve-story Marsh-Strong
Building at Ninth and Spring streets, and this is one of the finest office
buildings on the coast.
He was born at San Diego, January 5, 1871, a son of Dr. D. W.
and Mary A. Strong. He acquired a public school and business college
education, and at the Sge of nineteen went to work for Easton, Eldridge
& Company in their San Diego office. In 1891 he acquired the San
Diego branch of this firm, forming a partnership with M. D. Arms
under the name Strong & Arms. In 1895 he moved to Los Angeles,
becoming associated with the late F. B. Wilde under the name Wilde
& Strong. In 1900, upon the retirement of Mr. Wilde G. W. Dickinson
became his partner, and the firm was Strong & Dickinson until a few
years ago, when the present title was acquired.
Mr. Strong and his associates have been particularly successful in
subdivision work. They have handled eighty or more subdivisions,
and have owned and developed vast tracts of Southern California prop-
erty not only city and town lands, but farms and ranches. Mr. Strong
is individually the owner of two large ranches near La Mirada, twenty
miles from Los Angeles, and a four hundred acre hog ranch at San
Jacinto.
Mr. Strong's home comprises a beautiful estate of a hundred acres
at La Canada, seventeen miles north of Los Angeles.
Christian J. Casper is president of the Cambria Spring Company,
operating one of the large plants which are giving a new industrial
character to Los Angeles as a metropolitan city.
This business was established in 1911 at 913-921 Santee Street. It
has chiefly specialized in the manufacture of automobile truck and coil
springs, wheels and bumpers. They also manufacture tire racks and
have a special department in the plant for spring repairing. The auto-
mobile industn,' knows the quality of the product, especially through the
"Cambria Patent Spring" and the "Spring Steel' Bumper." The busi-
ness has grown and prospered, and today its plant includes three build-
ings, each 150x50 feet, running from Los Angeles Street to Santee
Street, between Ninth and Tenth. The business has in fact doubled
within two years. The plant is equipped with the most modern machin-
er}% and sixty persons are on the payroll. Christian J. Casper is presi-
dent and general manager ; Robert W. Sheldon is vice president ; Mil-
lard A. Casper is secretary and treasurer, and J. N. Nordon is assistant
secretary.
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Christian J. Casper is a veteran in the flour milling industry, but his
extensive experience has also brought him an exceptional knowledge and
skill in the general iron and steel working business. He was born in
Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, February 14, 1861, son of Mathias
and Gertrude Casper. His father was also a flour miller. Up to the
age of fourteen Christian J. attended public schools, and then worked
steadily in his father's flour mill to the age of nineteen. He then went
to Milwaukee and got a position in a large flour mill to take up the new
process of milling from the Burr system to the Roller process. Satis-
fied he had acquired sufficient knowledge he went back home to his
father's mill to remodel same to the n^w system and it became one of
the best known flour mills in the state. He operated same until his
twenty-third year. Going out into the world he was employed in a flour
mill at Dodge City, Kansas, until 1886, and during that time helped
grind many of the pioneer crops of the western prairie. For two and
a half years he was located at Junction City, Kansas, being identified
with flour milling and also doing special work for the Allis-Chalmers
Company, of Milwaukee, machinery manufacturers. Then for six and a
half years Mr. Casper operated a flour mill at Chaska in Carver County,
Minnesota, was in the same business two and a half years at Lake Crys-
tal, Minnesota, and was then elected by the directors of Milwaukee Street
Railway Joint Welding Company as superintendent of the new process
of welding rail joints, in which he was very successful. After this he
was chosen by the Allis-Chalmers Company, manufacturers at Milwau-
kee, to take up some expert machinery operations, taking up the then
new process of nulling for said Allis-Chalmers Company as indirect
expert under the general agent, J. F. Harrison, located at Minneapolis, at
that time. Mr. Casper was sent to Melrose, Minnesota, to take charge
of a large flour mill which was at that time converted into the Universal
Bolting System of Milling. The change was made and the successful
operation of the new process was brought about in the short period of
four months. From Melrose he went to Atwater, Minnesota, starting a
new mill there for the Atwater Milling Company, of which Marcus
Johnson was president. Two years or more he spent there and then
removed to North Branch, Minnesota, where under his own exclusive
methods and management he took over for a large corporation, a flour
mill which has been operated there and which was on the verge of bank-
ruptcy. In six months time Mr. Casper had put the mill on a paying
basis and its stock which had been actually depreciated had been restored
to its normal market value.
Mr Casper had in the meantime purchased an interest in the mill.
He then selected for the company a competent general manager and
then after two and a half years of successful operation he severed his
connection with the company.
In 1902 he returned to Chaska, Minnesota, where he had formerly
lived and purchased an interest in a large brick manufacturing plant,
and continued in this business for nine years. In 1911 one of the part-
ners sold out and Mr. Casper continued the business with Klein Brothers
until 1913. He came to Los Angeles for a visit and pleased with the
Southwest returned to Minnesota and soon after sold out his interest
to Klein Brothers and came to Los Angeles and purchased one-half
interest in the Cambria Spring Company.
Since 1915 Mr. Casper has been president and general manager of
the company. In this industry he has been greatly assisted and has the
active co-operation of his two sons Millard A. and Clarence H. Mr.
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Casper is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the Los Angeles Commercial Board. At Chaska, Min-
nesota, May 4, 1892, he married Miss Clara Riedele. They have three
sons, Millard A., born in 1893, secretary and treasurer of the company ;
Clarence H., born in 1895, assistant manager; and Philip K., born in
1906, a student in the St. Agnes parochial school.
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Bedford James Howdershell has represented a number of im-
portant financial and real estate interests in Southern California.
He is a railroad man by training and long experience, is a well
qualified lawyer, but has given his time in California largely to repre-
senting railroads and eastern capital.
He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, February 7, 1876, son of James
E. and Amanda S. (Nails) Howdershell, being one of their nine chil-
dren. His father was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in June, 1846.
Bedford J. Howdershell is a graduate of Bethel Military Academy,
Virginia, and studied law under Professor S. W. Green, of Georgetown,
Maryland. Later he entered the operating department of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Washington, D. C., and remained with that company
until coming to Los Angeles in 1898, where he was engaged in repre-
senting eastern railroads until 1913, becoming at that time associated
with the Building Owners Company in Los Angeles as managing director.
In 191.^ this com])any erected one of the largest office buildings in the
city.
Mr. Howdershell is chairman of the legislative committee of the
Building Owners and Managers Association of Los Angeles, is a member
of the Automobile Club of Southern California and of the Jonathan
Club, is affiliated with Arlington Lodge No. 414, F. and A. M., is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, belonging to Los Angeles Con-
sistory No. 3 and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of I^s An-
geles. In politics he is a republican.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor John M. McCarthy has been one of the most
efficient workers in the Catholic church of Southern California for over
a quarter of a century. He has enjoyed many of the higher honors and
responsibilities of the church, and for the past ten years has been a
domestic prelate with the title Rt. Rev. Monsignor.
In the fall of 1918 Father McCarthy was called from St. John's
church at Fresno to become rector of St. Andrew's church at Pasadena
to succeed the late Rev. William Quinlan.
Rev. William F. Quinlan, of whom a brief sketch may properly be
written here, was born in County Limerick, Ireland, December 14, 1878,
and after his preliminary studies entered Bruflf College and took his
theological course in St. Patrick's College at Thurles. He was ordained
by Archbishop Fennelly June 22, 1902, and soon came to America arriv-
ing at Los Angeles in September. He was one of the assistants of the
Cathedral for two years, during 1905 served as temporary rector in
the churches at Bakersfield and Watsonville, and upon the establish-
ment of the new parish of Our Lady of Angels at San Diego in 1906
he was named its pastor. He labored conscientiously in the upbuilding
of this parish for three years, and during that time erected a handsome
brick church and a school building. Soon after the death of Rev. P. F.
Farrelly in September, 1909, Father Quinlan was appointed to the
vacancy in St. Andrew's church at Pasadena. His labors in that parish
continued uninterrupted for nine years until his death on September 23,
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1918. It was a period of great growth and prosperity. The parish
church was improved and redecorated, a rectory buih, and in 1918 a
parochial school was established by purchase of the Academy of the
Holy Names. Under his pastorate a new parish, St. Elizabeth's, was
erected in the northeastern part of tlie city. Father Quinlan was long
a member of the Diocesan Examiners, the Examinatores Cleri, and
the Diocesan School Board, and in June, 1918, was appointed a Diocesan
Consultor. His last work was done in behalf of the raising of funds
for the Knights of Columbus war work. Father Quinlan is survived
by his mother and two brothers and a sister in Ireland, and one sister.
Sister Mary Regina, at Los Angeles.
As successor to Father Quinlan St. Andrew's church received one
of the best known Catholic clerg}'men in California. Rev. John M.
McCarthy was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he finished his
classical course in 1884, studied theology in All Hallows College in Ire-
land, and pursued his philosophical studies in the College of the Propa-
ganda at Rome. He was ordained June 24, 1890, and on October 20th
of the same year was appointed to his first mission in the Old I'laza
Church, Los Angeles. August 16, 1893, Bishop Mora appointed him
rector of St. Francis de Sales' Church at Riverside, where he labored
successfully five years. In October, 1898, he took up his duties in St.
John's Church at Fresno, and rounded out a period of twenty years in
that parish. During that time St. John's became one of the most im-
portant parishes in the diocese.
In January, 1906, Father McCarthy was made a Diocesan Con-
sultor, and in November of the same year was appointed Private Cham-
berlain to His Holiness, the late Pope Pius X, with the title of Very
Reverend Monsignor. Then in June, 1909, he was made a Domestic
Prelate with the title Right Reverend Monsignor. Father McCarthy
celebrated his silver jubilee in 1905. In June, 1918, he was reappointed
Diocesan Consultor.
Eleanor Miller is founder and head of The Eleanor Miller School
of Expression and Music, an institution that has proved its right to
exist, grow and flourish, and in seventeen years has contributed its
share to the enrichment of many communities where its former puiiils
have gone.
The school has had its home in Pasadena for the past nine years,
and was originally founded in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was opened in
that city September 15, 1903, occupying two small rooms on the fifth
floor of a public building in St. Paul. There was vitality and ability both
in the school and its founder, and its following increased until in March,
1907, the school moved to a three-story stone building of its own with
ample grounds at St. Paul. Miss Miller is the daughter of a California
forty-niner, and probably on that account she was attracted to the Pacific
Coast and determined to re-establish her school in the beautiful city of
Pasadena. The present building is located at 251 (Jakland avenue.
While primarily a school of expression the Eleanor Miller School
has grown and expanded until it now ofTers many courses in the fine arts,
including music, and in the different years the school has had some of
the foremost teachers and lecturers in the field of literature and belles
lettres. In Pasadena the school has become an institution, where literary
culture seems to centralize.
Miss Miller is a native of Illinois. Her father traveled from the
Middle West overland by ox team and wagon to Sacramento in 1849,
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and had varied experience in the West as a prospector. He often told his
daughter many glowing tales of the gold in the earth and the gold in the
sky of California, and it was the haunting memory of those stories which
constituted at least one influence to bring her west.
Miss Miller is a graduate of the Columbia College of Expression.
She taught in the public and normal schools of Illinois, and in Lincoln
University. Later she had charge of the Department of Expression in
Pillsbury Academy and in Hamline University, and also taught dramatic
work in Minnesota State University.
Miss Miller has done much lyceum and chautauqua work all over
the country, and has given entertainments in practically every state.
Each year in Pasadena she prepares and delivers a series of lecture
recitals on Browning and Shakespeare and the modem drama. Six
years ago, recognizing the need of an organization for musical people
in Pasadena, she took the initiative in organizing the Fine Arts Club,
and this club has held its regular meetings in the Miller School. She
also organized a branch of the Dickens Fellowship which meets with
her each month. The Young Women's Christian Association of St.
Paul was founded in her school, and that institution is now flourishing
and has a splendid building of its own. At the present writing Miss
Miller is engaged in forming a society known as "The League of the
Golden Word," which she originated for the purpose of promoting inter-
est in the spoken and written word and intelligent expression in all lit-
erary forms. She is responsible for some wonderful pageants held in
California, one being- under the auspices of the Shakespeare Club and
involving the talent and services of a thousand people. She also super-
vised a pageant held in the Yosemite at Camp Currie, and some years
ago organized and presented a pageant in the auditorium of St. Paul,
which probably represented the high watermark of an artistic entertain-
ment in that city.
In addition to her educational and social work Miss Miller is active
in church life. Each Sunday she teaches a class of adult students num-
bering four and five hundred, in the First Methodist Episcopal church of
Pasadena.
Ch.\mp Shepherd Vance has been a resident of California since
1885, and has given his years to mercantile enterprise and especially to
engineering and tlie management of large public utility corporations. He
recently became second vice president of the Los Angeles Gas and
Electric Corporation.
Mr. Vance was born at Abingdon, Virginia, July 10, 1864, and rep-
resents an old Virginia family. His parents were Captain James and
Anna Eliza (Castleman) Vance. Though his early life was spent in
the years following the Civil war, when the South was prostrate in indus-
trial resources, Mr. Vance was given good advantages in school, attend-
ing Abingdon Male Academy until 1879 and then pursuing instruction
in the Cumberland College at Rose Hill, Virginia, until 1882. His first
commercial work was as traveling salesman for Lee, Taylor & Snead,
of Lynchburg, Virginia. He was with that firm until 1884 and the
following year on coming to California identified himself with an entirely
new profession. For about a year he was employed as a chain man
with the United States Engineering Corps under Major George B.
Pickett. These engineers were at the time retracing the old Spanish
grants and investigating the Benson land frauds. In 1886 Mr. Vance
was promoted to assistant engineer under Major Bickett, with whom he
remained until 1888.
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In that year removing to Los Angeles Mr. Vance engaged in the
retail grocery business under the firm name of Bethune & Company.
Later he was member of the firm Edwards & Vance and of Bowen,
Edwards & Vance. In 1894 he sold his interests in this firm and accepted
and held until 1897 the post of United States Internal Revenue Collec-
tor of the port of Los Angeles.
For twenty years Mr. Vance has been one of the men responsibly
identified with the great corporation which has been krown since June
22, 1899, as the Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corporation. When he
first went to work as solicitor for this enterprise it was the Los Angeles
Lighting Company. From solicitor he was promoted to manager of
operations, subsequently to third vice president of the company, and on
August 1, 1917, was elected second vice president.
Mr. Vance is widely known in engineering circles. He is a mem-
ber of the American Gas Institute, the Pacific Coast Gas Association,
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Illuminating Engi-
neering Society. He served three years in the National Guard of
California, having an honorable discharge dated in 1893. Mr. Vance
is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile
Club of Southern California, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and is a
member of the Episcopal Church. He was one of the organizers and
for many years treasurer of West Lake Lodge F. and A. M., and has
attained the thirty-third supreme honorary degree in the Scottish Rite
Masonry and is also affiliated with the K. C. C. H.
November 27, 1895, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Clementine
Blanche Conradi. They have two children, S. Conradi and Adele. The
son, now twenty-one years of age, was educated in the grammar and
high schools of Los Angeles, at Occidental College and is now con-
nected with the Davis Bournville Acetylene Welding Company. The
daughter attended the Westlake School for Girls at Los Angeles and the
Miss Hamlin School for Girls at San Francisco.
Fkank D. Tatum, who came to Los Angeles when a boy, was for-
merly in the lumber industry, but since establishing the Frank D. Tatum
Company has made this one of the leading firms in handling general
real estate, with an increasing emphasis upon business property.
Mr. Tatum was bom in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1, 1885.
His father, the late Joseph Tatum, who was born in St. Louis, in 1837,
had a distinguished career as a lawyer. He graduated from Yale
University with the class of 1859, and soon afterward entered the work
of his profession at St. Louis. During the Civil war he served as
lieutenant in a company of cavalry, and was in the army until 1865.
He then resumed his practice in St. Louis and for a number of years
was attorney for the Anheuser-Busch interests. At one time he also
served as state senator. In January, 1896, he retired from his pro-
fessional work, and lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1916. He
was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. At St.
Louis he married Adell L. Lynch, of an old and prominent St. Louis
family.
Frank D. Tatum was eleven years old when his parents came to
Los Angeles. In the meantime he had attended public school in St.
Louis, and continued his education in the Los Angeles grammar and
high schools to the age of seventeen. After a year in the Browns-
berger Business College he became a salesman for the J. E. Cook Mer-
cantile Company. Following that for four years he was a salesman for
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the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company. While in the lumber business Mr.
Tatum's most important experience was the year he spent in the eastern
states as sales representative for the Pacific Lumber Company. His
special mission was to introduce and create a demand and appreciation
for the famous Redwood Lumber. His efiForts opened up a wide market
for that timber, and the demand has steadily grown until today there is
hardly a retail lumber yard anywhere which does not carry some stock
of redwood.
On returning to Los Angeles, Mr. Tatum founded the Frank D.
Tatum Company, to handle general real estate, and in this line he has
been particularly successful. He is a member of the Annandale Country
Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a republican in politics and a
member of the Catholic Church.
November 14, 1910, at San Francisco, he married Terese Murphy.
They have three children, Donn, born in 1912, Natalie, born in 1914, and
Warde, born in 1915. The oldest is a student in St. Brendan's parochial
school.
George Simpson Safford was born in Perry, Wyoming County,
New York, in 1854. He had read some of the fascinating writings of
John Muir, and they had made a deep impression on his youthful mind.
Hence, shortly after his mother's death, when he was seventeen years
old, his most obvious thought was of the great West.
Los Angeles, which proved to be his goal, was then a thrifty town
of about five thousand people, half American, half Mexican, with the
atmosphere not so much of a frontier settlement as a foreign city.
There was no rail connection with the world of activities beyond, only
a railroad of about twenty miles to Wilmington, and the principal
means of transit was by coastwise steamers between Wilmington and
San Francisco, one trip a week.
In this primitive but congenial and promising community, young
SafTord cast his lines. He was of pleasant address and ready observa-
tion and endowed with ambition, industry and correct standards.
I formed his acquaintance in the spring of 1874, having recently
arrived in Los Angeles on the same quest as himself. From that time
until his death — a period of more than forty-four years — the bond of
confidence and friendship established between us never suffered a flaw.
On a basis similarly ideal and enduring there was soon formed a little
coterie of young fellows engaged in the struggle for the main chance,
whose temperaments made them congenial. This group included, be-
side George and myself, Andrew M. Lawrence, Fred W. Wood and
Frank A. Gibson. Cicero in his "De Amicitia" says that the friendships
of youth seldom extend into mature life, "for either personal interests
or the matter of taking a wife come in to work a separation." It was
not so with us. As the wives came along, they were adopted as sisters,
and there were double the number to rejoice with us in our success
and to sympathize with us in our adversities and sorrows.
Alas, the original five are all gone now over the Great Divide, all
but the one who writes these lines.
Mr. Safiford was successively bookkeeper and cashier on the Los
Angeles Morning Herald, secretary to Dr. T. O. Stanway, then the
leading physician of Los Angeles, and then bookkeeper and cashier of the
Santa Anita Ranch, for E. J. Baldwin, for several years. It was at this
time, in 1879, he married Miss Emma O'Melveny, daughter of Judge H.
K. S. O'Melveny. The wedding was in the old homstead on the corner
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of Second and Broadway (then known as Fort Street). A little over
a year later the Safford family was rejoicing over the birth of a son.
My friend's next employment, as I recall it, was as agent for the
Southern Pacific Railroad at Pantano, Arizona, a position which he held
for four or five years. His wife's brother, Edward O'M^lveny, was
agent at Benson, twenty miles to the eastward. The two families decided
to return to Los Angeles in 1884. During their sojourn in the wilder-
ness they had both saved a little capital and with it they purchased a
trucking business. Their experience as railway agents, had well equipped
them for this line of work and they proceeded to organize the California
Truck Company, and place it on a basis commensurate with the rapidly
growing requirements of the city. Subsequently, E. H. Sanderson, a
cousin by marriage, was taken into the company, and later Mr. O'Melveny
sold his interest. Mr. Safford was chosen president of the corporation
and remained so till the time of his death. The business grew rapidly,
and has long been regarded as one of the most substantial in the city.
It is now carried on by H. B. Safiford and Rowe Sanderson, sons of the
founders.
Shortly after the return of the family from Arizona occured the
the birth of their daughter Helen, now Mrs. A. M. Bonsall. In 1897
Mr. Safford suffered bereavement in the death of his wife.
As a young man George Safford was observant and thoughtful,
but not talkative. This characteristic was dominant with him through
life. He had an alert eye for opportunities, a firm decision in grasping
them and great persistence in carrying them to fruition. He was not
satisfied merely to preside over a large and exacting business, but he
reached out to other fields and became a real estate, oil ana mining
operator on a considerable scale.
He was among the first to develop the Wilshire district, holding a
large interest in the Wilshire Harvard Heights tract comprising eighty
acres which he bought in company with E. A. Forrester & Sons. The
same syndicate later bought the Joughins ranch, of over three hundred
acres south of the city which was sub-divided under the name of Angeles
Mesa. Then a syndicate purchased the holdings of H. E. Huntington
in the San Fernando Valley and are disposing of them under the title of
the Mission Lands Company.
Although this brief summary of the career of my lifelong friend is
mainly of business details, for his was a busy, practical life, there was
room in it for the most steadfast friendships, the highest ideals of char-
acter, the greatest devotion to those he loved, and kindliness and charity
toward his fellow man.
In 1900, Mr. Safford married Miss Mae Campbell, daughter of the
late J. D. Campbell.
In summing up the character of my friend, I would say that he was
a man of remarkable poise. He was reserved, averse to display of any
sort, and when he spoke his language was forceful and to the point.
Only those who knew him intimately could tell how deep and broad a
current of consideration and sympathy flowed beneath the calm surface.
He was self educated in the hard school of practical affairs, but
he was well informed on all matters of public interest, and held liberal
and advanced views in poHtics, religion and social affairs.
A citizen of Los Angeles through its years of phenomenal develop-
ment, he made his way to the front ranks among its promoters and devel-
opers, and left a lasting impress upon the community. He might have
said in the words of Caesar, "all of which I saw, and a part of which
I was."
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His fondness for nature went with him all through life. He knew
and loved the mountains and streams of California and his recreation
was invariably an extended trip on a trout fishing excursion. His_ friends
all knew that if the conversation lagged, they could always stir up a
lively interest by mentioning trout.
George Simpson Sailord died June 11, 1918, after a brief illness.
Thus he passed in the midst of an active and useful career, and left an
ache in the hearts of all who loved him.— William A. Spalding.
C. L D. Moore is secretary and assistant superintendent of agencies
of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Moore began sell-
ing insurance in 1902. He loves his profession, loves flowers, writes
poetry, and is an unfailing contributor to the morale and efficiency of
the great organization which he serves as an official, and a splendid
example of the balanced adjustment which a few rare men can make
between devotion to their business and to the human and personal
interests of Hfe.
Mr. Moore was born at Islington, near the city of Toronto, On-
tario, February 16, 1865, son of James and Jacobina (Campbell) Moore.
Among his close friends he has expressed a great debt to the early years
he spent on a farm, not only because he developed a lasting love of na-
ture, but acquired a discipline in work that requires close co-ordination
of head, heart and hand. He attended the high school at Weston, Onta-
rio, and spent his college career in Victoria University at Toronto, where
he was graduated A. B., in 1888. He won the Prince of Wales gold
medal for general proficiency covering the four years of his college
course, the highest honor in the gift of the University at that time.
As a Californian Mr. Moore was first known as a teacher and
educator. After graduation he received an appointment to teach in a
mission college for boys at Tokio, Japan, and spent three years in
the Far East. He returned to America in 1891 and for ten years was
engaged in school work at Santa Monica, teaching in the high scb.ool
and for several years being supervisor of all the Santa Monica schools.
Eventually he came face to face with a problem which nearly every
educator must solve, presenting the alternative of remaining in the
work he had first chosen at a tremendous sacrifice in financial and other
rewards, or seeking some field better suited to furnish an adequate
remuneration for his talents and efforts. He detemiined upon life
insurance, and early in 1902, in the words of an article published in
The Eastern Underwriter in October, 1918, "was in possession of a rate
book selling life insurance for the Conservative Life of Los Angeles. He
continued with that work and did not legret the change, as he more than
doubled his income as a school man from the very beginning of his
insurance career. For about four years he remained in the selling end,
and after the consolidation of the Conser\'ative Life with the Pacific
Mutual in 1906 he was appointed assistant secretary of the latter com-
pany, and the next year became its secretary, a position hfe has held ever
since."
Quite recently Mr. Moore was given the additional title of assist-
ant superintendent of agencies. He is also editor of the Pacific Mutual
News. Quoting from an article in the Financial Insurance News of Los
Angeles, Mr. Moore "is above all a most able life insurance man, and
wrapped up in the company of which he is the secretary. If you should
go to him and a.sk his advice upon some broad life insurance question
he would probably tell you that there were others in the Pacific Mutual
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far better advised on the subject than himself^ but only the men with
whom he is associated closely know the real ability of the man, and to
what an extent he has contributed in moulding the policies and influ-
ence of this great and growing institution."
Mr. Moore served as chairman of the Los Angeles committee for
raising the city's quota of over a hundred million dollars for extension
work of the Methodist Church. He is an active member of die West
Adams Methodist Church. He is a member of the California Club and
a trustee of the University of Southern California. Mr. Moore has had
a thorough literary training, expresses himself exceptionally well either
as a speaker or writer, and some of his verse has received commendation.
He enjoys a happy home life. He married in 1892 Emily Maud
Cochran. They have two sons and a daughter, the latter, Katherine,
being a grammar school girl. Both sons were in the service of their
government in the world war. Douglas E. C. was discharged from the
United States Navy with the rank of ensign, and is now studying law.
Rutherford D. served with the U. S. Marines and after his discharge
resumed his work at Leland Stanford University.
Herman W. Hellm.\n. It would be difficult to conceive of more
emphatic • claims to the position of a pioneer in the upbuilding and
advancement of Los .Angeles business and finance than those presented
by the career of the late Herman W. Hellman, who for a number of
years was rated as the leading banker and one of the wealthiest men in
Southern California.
He did not come to Los Angeles as a man of wealth and business
influence, but grew up with the city from its pioneer days and from
the humble role of a freight clerk made himself a power as a merchant,
banker and man of affairs.
Herman W. Hellman was born in Bavaria, Germany, September
25, 1843, and was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death,
October 19, 1906. He attended the common schools of Germany to the
age of fifteen. Thus early he ventured to the new world, emigrating
to Los Angeles, and in June, 1859, went to work as freight clerk in a
forwarding and warehouse business at Wilmington, then a town adja-
cent to Los Angeles. This business was conducted by General Phineas
Banning, a well known figure among the pioneer characters of Los
Angeles. By hard work he acquired sufficient means to enable him to
return to Los Angeles, where with a cousin he established two station-
ery stores. There was vitality in the business, which grew and pros-
pered, but after several years he withdrew from the company to take up
work on his own responsibility.
In 1870 Mr. Hellman sold his interests, and the following year was
spent in Europe, visiting his childhood home. In November, 1871, after
his return, he entered into a partnership with Jacob Haas, an old school-
mate. Out of this grew the wholesale grocery house of Hellman, Haas
& Company, which for nineteen years supplied an extensive retail trade
all over Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
While a merchant he became a stockholder and interested in the
management of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
In 1896 he was elected its vice president and local manager. He finally
retired altogether from Hellman, Haas & Company, and thereafter his
name was most prominently associated with banking. A conspicuous
service he rendered as a banker was during the financial panic of 1893.
.\s a result of this panic disaster had come to many monetary institu-
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tions throughout the United States. The security with which the Farm-
ers & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles stood out among others
whose doors were closed either temporarily or permanently, together
with the long era of prosperity which followed that crisis, was largely
due to the conservative and sagacious judgment of Mr. Hellman, Mr.
Hellman resigned as vice president of the Farmers & Merchants National
Bank in May, 1903, and entered the Merchants National Bank, becom-
ing president of that institution and filled that office until his death. He
was identified with many other financial concerns, and was a director
in twelve banks in Southern California.
It was a matter of public spirit and community faith as well as
business prudence that suggested the direction of some of his enter-
prises. A monument to this public spirited enterprise is the Herman
W. Hellman Building at Fourth and Spring streets.
Business success largely meant to him an opportunity for service
to his fellow men. He supported numerous charitable institutions, was
helpful to those in need, and while serving as president of the B'nai
B'rith Congregation the new temple was erected. He was a member
of the Jonathan, California and Concordia Clubs. In Masonry he was
past master of Pentalpha Lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M., was a thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Al Malaikah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
July 26, 1874, Mr. Hellman married Miss Ida Heimann. They
were married in Italy. Their four children are Mrs. Louis M. Cole;
Mrs. Sollie Aronson; Marco H. and Irving H. Hellmann.
Marco H. Hellman. When Herman W. Hellman died at Los
Angeles in 1906, his positive financial genius was attested by the im-
mense estate which he left, including a multitude of interests, banking,
real estate, oil, corporation, etc. To the management of this vast prop-
erty came his son Marco H. Hellman, qualified by business experience
and by inheritance for its safeguarding and expansion.
It has been said that Marco H. Hellman holds more offices in banks
and corporations than any other three men in Southern California. His
ability as a financier and executive has been thoroughly tried and proved
in handling the Herman W. Hellman estate, as well as in many other
positions to which he has been called.
Marco H. Hellman was born in Los Angeles, September 14, 1878.
He was well educated in the public schools of his native city and also
attended Leland Stanford University. His banking experience began
with the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, where
he started as a messenger. Later his employment was of a nature to
qualify him for a thorough knowledge of banking and finance in all its
details. He was finally made assistant cashier, and remained with the
bank about six years. He resigned to become assistant cashier of the'
Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, of which he is still vice
president. He is president of the Hellman Commercial Trust & Sav-
ings Bank besides being vice president or director of fully a score of
banks, besides a number of industrial corporations.
The interests of his busy life have identified him with the welfare
and advancement of his native city. While his name does not figure in
politics, it is associated with many of the movements which have a
larger importance than political issues. It is well remembered how,
when the Owens River aqueduct project was proposed and money was
needed, and the eastern syndicate accepted only its alloted portion, Mr.
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Hellman took over and sold the remaining portion of the bonds for the
city, a transaction involving at least three million dollars. With the
money obtained so promptly, the city was able to go ahead with its work
of improvement and the Owens River aqueduct, a remarkable engineer-
ing project, has brought pure water not only to Los Angeles, but to many
towns and villages in the vicinity.
Mr. Hellman was born in his father's old mansion at Fourth and
Spring streets, when that corner was part of the residential section of
the city. It was on this site that the conspicuous skyscraper known as
the Herman W. Hellman building was erected. Mr. Hellman is a mem-
ber of the Jonathan, Union League, Los Angeles Athletic and San
Gabriel Valley Country Clubs of Los Angeles, is a thirty-second degree
Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Elks. June 10, 1908, at Los
Angeles, he married Miss Reta Levis, of Visalia, California. They
have two children, Herman Wallace Hellman and Marcoreta Levis
Hellman.
David McNair, a wealthy and prominent Canadian lumberman and
manufacturer, came to San Diego, California, with his family about
twenty years ago, and fifteen years ago moved to Los Angeles and built
the beautiful home which his family now occupies at 625 Kingsley Drive,
it being one of the first homes on that now noted thoroughfare.
Mr. McNair, who died in the beautiful surroundings his wealth and
good taste had created, and honored and respected by many prominent
Southern Californians, on January 25, 1920, was born at River Louison,
New Brunswick, Canada, September 13, 1842, son of John and Elizabeth
(Kelso) McNair and grandson of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (McKenzie)
McNair. His father was of a prominent and wealthy Scotch Highland
family, and came from Campbellton, Argyleshire, Scotland, to New
Brunswick on a sailing vessel at a very early day (1819), when crossing
the ocean was a matter of three months or more. John McNair took
up the lumber business in Eastern Canada, and owned several timber
mills and a fleet of sailing vessels to ship the product to England.
David McNair was educated in New Brunswick, and after leaving
school took up the luiiiber business with his father. Later he utilized
his experience in the new and pioneer districts of the Pacific Coast,
the British Columbia forests, going to Western Canada in company
with John Hendry and establishing his home and business headquarters
at New Westminster and later moved to Vancouver. There he was
associated with John Hendry in the sawmilling business at Nanaimo,
and subsequently they formed the Royal City Planing Mills of New-
Westminster. The British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Com-
pany was incorporated by Mr. McNair, Mr. Hendry and Mr. Beecher
in the early nineties, this new corporation absorbing the properties of
the Royal City Planing Mills and the Hastings Sawmill Company. Mr.
McNair was one of the first lumbermen to develop the timber resources
of British Columbia on a large commercial scale. He was an eminently
practical man, possessed of all the typical virtues of northern lumbermen,
and was a recognized authority upon every phase of the industry.
His part of the work was surveying and securing the timber. He con-
tinued his associations with the British Columbia Mills Timber ani Trad-
ing Company until in recent years, after comino- to California. He came
to Southern California for the benefit of Mrs. McNair's he.ilth. In
California Mr. McNair became interested in real estate and the general
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development of Los Angeles and vicinity. He was one of the directors
of the Angeles Mesa Land Company and the Mission Land Company
at San Fernando.
April 13, 1881, Mr. McNair married Marion Hendry, who was born
at Belledune, New Brimswick. Her parents, James and Margaret
(Wilson) Hendry, had sailed from Ardrosson, Scotland, for Chaleur
Bav April 6, 1832, on ihe ship Margaret Ritchie. Mrs. McNair died
in Los Angeles April 14, 1920. The late Mr. McNair was always faith-
ful to his training as a Scotch Presbyterian and was an elder in the church
for many years. He was also one of the early members of the Los
Angeles Country Club.
He is survived by two brothers, Mr. Alexander McNair of Van-
couver and John McNair of Minneapolis, and one sister, :\lrs. Daniel
McMillan of Ottawa.
The family home at Los Angeles is now occupied by the daughter,
Miss Ethelyn McNair. There are two other daughters, Mrs. Henry
Browning Landes, of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Colin Defries, of London,
England. Their oldest child, a son, died when a baby at New Westmin-
ster. Mrs. Defries has two children, Joan Elizabeth and Madeline Darcy.
Otto G. Wildey grew up in California and since 1906 has been
busily engaged in building up a large real estate, insurance and general
contracting organization, conducted under the name Edwards & Wildey
Company, in which Mr. Wildey is secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Wildey was born at Chehalis, Washington, January 1, 1880, a
son of Henry and Jennie (Leach) Wildey. His father, a native of Not-
tingham, England, came to Canada when a young man, later to the
United States, and practiced the profession of civil engineering in the
State of Washington. Later he was a merchant in Oregon, and about
1895 settled with his family at Whittier, California. He died at Los
Angeles, March 26, 1917, and his widow is still living in Los Angeles,
where the family have resided for the past twenty-two years. Otto G.
Wildey has one sister, Mrs. J. C. Bannister, of Los Angeles.
Mr. Wildey was educated in the Public schools of Oregon and at
Whittier, California, and attended the Quaker College in the latter place.
During his business career he had only one employer, the Hulse-
Bradford Company, of San Francisco, wholesalers and jobbers in uphol-
stering supplies. Mr. Wildey was with this firm ten or twelve years
in the branch office at Los Angeles. When the business was sold in
1906 he and Godfrey Edwards, who had also been with the Hulse-
Bradford Company, engaged in business for themselves, incorporating
the Edwards & Wildey Company, with Mr. Edwards as president and
Mr. Wildey as secretary and treasurer. They did a general real estate
business, buying and developing property and building homes in Los
Angeles. Since 1917 they have branched out into heavy construction
work, and have taken many contracts for heavy construction in Arizona,
Nevada and New Mexico. They also represent some of the stand-
ard fire, Hability and insurance companies. Mr. Edwards and Mr.
Wildey have always held the controlling interest in the company, the
rest of the stock being in the names of their wives.
Mr. Wildey is a member of the Los Angeles Advertising Club, Los
Angeles Motor Boat Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and in
religion is a member of the Episcopal Church. His firm belongs to
the Builders' Exchange of Los Angeles.
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He and his wife reside at 903 Mariposa Street. He was married in
Los Angeles, July 2, 1902, to Miss Nella Dearden. She was born in
Southport, England, and was brought to California from England by her
parents when a girl of twelve years. Her father, WilHam Dearden, is
now living at Liverpool, England. Mrs. Wildey was educated in the
public schools of O'ntario, California.
F. Bruce Wetherby, who died December 7. 1916, was a pioneer
resident of Pasadena and for many years a merchant in that city until
his enterprise assumed metropolitan proportions and was moved to
Los Angeles. He was widely known as a business man, citizen and
factor in social and civil affairs in both cities.
He was born on a farm near Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, New
York, December 25, 1863, a son of Theodore and Valenia Wetherby.
His parents were residents of Southern California for many years. He
attended public school to the age of fourteen and for several years was
employed in the mechanical department of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. He came to California by way of Panama at the age of nineteen
and his first work in Los Angeles, then a comparatively small town,
was in connection with the surveying of Rosedale cemetery. He always
lived in Pasadena, was one of the early residents of that community, and
engaged in the shoe business in 1884 with F. R. Harris. This partner-
ship was dissolved in 1886, the business continuing under his name of
F. B. Wetherby until 1888, when a partnership was formed with Emil
Kayser. These two men erected a two-story building at 55-57 Colorado
Street, and that firm title still continues and is one of the oldest in the
mercantile history of Pasadena and Los Angeles. December 1, 1902,
they opened a store at 215 South Broadway, Los Angeles, continuing
their Pasadena store for one year. In 1904 they acquired a place
adjoining the store and in September, 1910, moved their establishment
to Fourth and Broadway. In October. 1917, after the death of Mr.
Wetherby another store was opened at 416-418 West Seventh Street.
This Seventh Street store is probably the finest shoe store in the West,
excelling not only in its appointments and equipment, but in the splen-
did service it renders.
The business was incorporated in 1904 with Mr. Wetherby as
president and Mr. Kayser as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Kayser suc-
ceeded as president upon the death of the senior partner, and F. W.
Heidel then became secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Wetherby always kept his residence at Pasadena having been
president of the town, his home where he died being at 355 South
Madison avenue. He was a leader in social affairs of the city, was a
member of the California Club, and won a host of friends by his stain-
less business and personal character.
In 1889 he married Miss Maria Visscher. Mrs. Wetherby and two
children survive, Henry and Christine. The son Henry enlisted in the
navy during the great war and received the rank of ensign and since
his discharge has been actively identified with the management of the
Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company.
Mrs. Sus.\n M. Dorsey. There are few Los .\ngeles peojile who do
not know Mrs. Susan AI. Dorsey as one of the active officials in the
public school system in the city. She has been a teacher and school
administrator here for twenty years or more, but her service has been
distinguished not merely by its duration and the responsibility of the
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offices she has held, but the particularly personal character of the
work she has done and the ideas and ideals which have guided her in
that work.
Mrs. Dorsey is a native of Penn Yan, New York State. She is a
graduate of Vassar College and for three years after graduating taught
at Vassar. After that she took up various social and church lines of
work, and it was those interests which first brought her to California.
During the first nine years of her residence in this state she was
identified with various social programs. In 1892 she entered upon
school work, and in 1896 became a teacher in the classical languages in
the Los Angeles High School. Later she was promoted to the head-
ship of the classical department and later was made vice principal in
this high school. In this position Mrs. Dorsey had opportunity not
only to teach along the formal lines, but to assist largely in shaping the
policies of the Los Angeles High School and of all the high schools of
the city. She applied herself with great zest to many problems for
integrating the work of the high schools with that of colleges and the
practical work of life. She constantly sought to work out plans for
developing the social life of the school, and for introducing into it a
liberal and democratic spirit which would gradually disintegrate the class
and clique system too frequently found in such schools. Mrs. Dorsey
was profoundly interested and ultimately instrumental in devising a
method whereby older girls should be able to help the younger ones.
Much is said nowadays about vocational guidance and other features
of school and social programs. It is not assigning too much credit to
Mrs. Dorsey to say that she was one of the pioneers in developing the
idea of vocational guidance. In the direction of that ideal she was steadily
progressing when most public schools in America and elsewhere were
given over to the cut and dried program of formal education, with only
incidental relationship to the big and vital problems of life.
In March, 1913, by the unanimous choice of the Board of Educa-
tion, Mrs. Dorsey entered upon the duties of assistant superintend nt
of schools. With this assignment there came the responsibility of super-
vising one of the school districts. In spite of absorption in this larger
and more general work she has always found time to consider individual
cases whether of a teacher or a pupil. Because of her inter?st in organi-
zations having in charge the social welfare of women and girls in the
citv, she has done much to put the work of th? schools into close and
effective co-ordination with such outside organizations, and to secure
frequent conferences between the school authorities proper and the
juvenile associations, the City Mothers and charity organizations. Espe-
cially during the war much time and serious effort were given to making
the schools one of the great controlling factors in Los Angeles toward
winning the war.
R'Irs. Dorsey has served as president of the California Teachers'
Association, Southern Section, and is at present a member of the Com-
mission on the National Emergency in Education, a memb r of the
National Council of Education and vice president of the National Educa-
tion Association. She is a charter member of the Woman's University
Club, a member of the Vassar Club, City Teach :rs' Club and of the
National Education Association. She is devoted to the working out
of a large and wholesome program of American education, and her own
Americanism is a record that begins with her ancestors, who fought in
the Revolutionary war.
On January 1, 1920, Mrs. Dorsey entered upon the work of superin-
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tendent of the schools of Los Angeles, to which position she had bsen
assigned by the Board of Education a few days before. She has assumed
this responsible work at a time of extreme difficulty, owing to the fact
that war conditions for several years have prevented the usual improve-
ment and increase in school facilities, whih the child population of Los
Angeles has kept on growing at an astonishing rate. She will bring to
the situation steadiness, courage, optimism and determination.
Edwin H. Kennaed, who has made his headquarters at Los Angeles
for the past sixteen years, is a mining and metallurgical engineer well
known by his operations throughout the west and southwest and is senior
member of the firm Kennard & Bierce in the Hollingsworth Buildmg.
He was bom in Effingham, Illinois, December 15, 1878, a so.i of
F. F. and Jessie Benton (HoUiday) Kennard. His father was a Union
soldier in the Civil war, afterwards followed the profession of civil
engineer in various eastern states, and came to Los Angeles in J905,
living retired until his death in 1914. He was a Knight Templar Mason.
The widowed mother is still living in Los Angeles. There were three
children in the family, two daughters and one son.
Edwin H. Kennard grew up and sp:nt his boyhood chiefly at Den-
ver, Colorado, where he graduated from the high school in 1898. He
afterward attended the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, and has
been engaged in the different branches of mining and mine engineering in
the United States, Mexico and Canada. His work, comprising metallur-
gical engineering and everything pertaining to the designing and con-
struction of milling plants and examination of mines has been done
chiefly in Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and California.
Mr. Kennard is a member of the American Institute of Mining, and
Metallurgical Engineers, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Autoniobile
Club of Southern California, and San Gabriel Country Club. May 8,
1904, he marrird Teresa W. Maltman, of Los Angeles, who was born and
educated in Southern California. They have one daughter, Geraldine.
Edward A. Dickson, editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express,
has been a resident of California since 1886, and in later years his name
has been associated with a number of important movements in the state's
civic development.
He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, August 29, 1879, a son of
William H. and Jennie (Iverson) Dickson. He attended the Univers ty
of California, from which he was graduated in 1901, with the degree of
B. L. He then spent a year in Japan and on returning to California was
for four years on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. He became
associat, d with the Los Angeles Express in 1906, and was the Wash-
ington, D. C, correspondent of that paper from 1910 to 1912. In
February, 1919, he became editor of the Los Angeles Evening Exp^-ess.
Mr. Dickson is a regent of the University of California and a mem-
ber of the California Historical Commission. During the war h; was
a member of the State Council of Defense.
Mr. Dickson is affiliated with King Solomon Lodge of Masons,
the University Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a republican and
a Methodist. At Los Angeles, December 25, 1908, he married Wil-
helmina de Wolff.
Sisters of Mercy. This community was introduced into Southern
California some thirty years ago, on the invitation of th^ late Right
Reverend Bishop Mora of the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles.
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Hospitals at San Diego, Bakersfield and Oxnard, also parochial schools
at Redlands and Bakersfield bear witness to the rapid increase and de-
velopment of the various works of the Order in this favored Southland
In Los Angeles the Sisters conduct St. John's Academy — an up-
to-date boarding school, where boys from five to fourteen years of age
receive a thorough education calculated to enable them to continue with
credit their studies at the higher seats of learning and to fit them for
their responsibilities as future citizens of our Glorious Republic. As
"All true character and integrity of life must be solidly grounded on
the unchangeable principles of eternal truth," it is needless to say re-
ligious instruction holds a paramount place in the curriculum.
St. John's is a Military School. Such discipline is maintained as
enables the pupils to make efficient progress in their studies and the mili-
tary system helps them in the acquirement of the habits of obedience,
neatness, promptness and the acquisition of self reliance. However,
while military exercises are thoroughly taught, they are never per-
mitted to assume such prominence as to lessen the prop)er attention due
to the principal object of the school.
JoTHAM W. BixBY is the younger son of the late Jotham Bixby,
whose story as one of the pioneer builders of Southern California is
recited at length on other pages. The son inherits many of the master-
ly qualities of the father, and many of their business interests have
been similar and are now successfully carried on by the son.
Mr. Bixby was born in Los Angeles, attended public school at Long
Beach, and up to the age of twelve was in the Throop Polytechnic Insti-
tute at Pasadena. For two years he attended Belmont School at Bel-
mont, California, another two years spent in the noted Thacher School
for Boys at Ojai, following which he was again for one term in the
Throop School. His liberal training was diversified and completed by
three years of world travel.
On returning from his education abroad, Mr. Bixby entered the
cattle business on his father's ranch near Long Beach. From time to
time he became identified with other interests of his father and was in
many ways his resourceful assistant until the death of the honored
senior Bixby on Februarj' 9, 1917. Since then Jotham W. Bixby has
been vice president of the Jotham Bixby Company, a director of the
Bixby Land Company, a director of the Palos Verdes Company, vice
president of the Bixby Development Company, and director of the
Anaheim Beef and Provision Company. Mr. Bixby is also affiliated with
the Elks and Virginia Country Club of Long Beach, Jonathan and Los
Angeles Athletic Clubs of Los Angeles, and in politics, is a republican.
March 7, 1906, at Long Beach, he married Bertha Catherine Kingore.
They have one daughter, Beatrice, now attending Mrs. Porter's SchooV
for Girls in Long Beach.
The Hospital of the Good Samarit.vn Student Body Govern-
ment. The year 1919 marks the sixth anniversary of an important
organization in the Nurses Training School of the Hospital of the Good
Samaritan, namely. Student Body Government. This organization has
been a most valuable factor in the upbuilding of the school, and one of
which each member has even,' reason to be proud.
Knowing that trust in an individual will raise that person's standards,
our countnt^ has for the past ten or twelve years endeavored to improve
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the discipline in its high schools and colleges by placing upon its students
the responsibility of self government. The inefficiency of student body
government, more especially in the high schools, has been due largely
to the carefree and irresponsible attitude of its members. Our nurses'
Student Body has not this condition to meet, for a young woman enter-
ing the nursing profession vei-j' early realizes the responsibility of her
position in life. It would seem most plausible that self government
should operate successfully amongst a body of professional women. But,
upon deeper thought, the difficulties of such a government begin to ap-
pear. However, these can be overcome very readily by a strong founda-
tion on which to build. The foundation consists of a body of nurses with
high standards and a superintendent they love, respect and admire. With
these assets. Student Body Government in a Nurses Training School
develops the weaker nurses, weeds out the undesirable and promotes a
feeling of pride and loyalty in the school.
The following is a very condensed summary of the methods used in
our school:
The Student Body officers are elected once a year from the Senior
class Prior to the election, the nomination committee submits the nom-
inations to the superintendent of the hospital for approval. The officers
consist of a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, librarian and
five monitors. There is also a Board of Student Body Aiifairs, consist-
ing of the Student Body officers and the president and vice president of
each class.
The nurse elected to be president of the school should be a woman
of force and character. She should be a woman who understands girls
and can comprehend their desires and difficulties. She, as the Repre-
sentative of the school, submits all recommendations and requests of the
Student Body to the superintendent of the hospital, and the superin-
tendent of the hospital, in turn, presents her wishes to the president of
the Student Body to be placed before its members. Complaints concern-
ing the conduct of nurses are made to the president. If worthy of con-
sideration, the matter is brought before the Board of Student Body
Affairs, and, if deemed necessary by them, placed before the Student
Body for consideration.
The president is assisted by five monitors of her own selection from
the Senior class. It is the duty of the monitors to enforce all rules of
the school, to see that there is proper observance of seniority, to super-
vise all matters of unifonns and personal neatness among the nurses,
and to have general oversight of the good conduct and well-being of the
school. The Senior class as a whole takes the disciplining of the school
as its duty, thus lightening the work of the officers very much.
The opportunities for abusing and overstepping rules are greater
under Student Body Government, but the desire seems to be latent.
There is no supervision in the Nurses' Home by the superintendent or
the hospital supervisors. Each monitor is in charge of a floor, and occa-
sionally it becomes necessary for her to remind the nurses of their duties,
but it is not often.
In admitting new nurses into our school, it is our endeavor to make
them feel as comfortable as possible. The probationers are received by
members of the Student Body, appointed by the president. The first
evening she instructs them as to the rules of the school and the general
conduct of the nurses. They are urged to come to her with any dif-
ficulties which arise, that they may not become discouraged in their early
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training. When the probationers are capped and taken into the Student
Body, the president impresses upon them what is expected of them, as a
member of our school.
How much our government has grown a part of us we can hardly
realize ! But the loyalty and pride which it has instilled are most evident.
The responsibility of making our school the best falls on each individual
nurse. Our path is not always smooth, for occasionally we find among
our number girls who endeavor to pollute the weaker minds and shatter
our ideals, causing a feeling of dissatisfaction among the nurses. For-
tunately, their sojourn in our midst is usually short.
The above is a very brief outline of Student Body Government as
we enjoy it. To write in detail would make a long paper.
It is to Mrs. Walker, our superintendent, that we extend out grati-
tude for conceiving of a plan of government for our school which has
given us so much freedom, loyalty and self-respect.
STUDENT NURSES.
Mrs. Horatio Walker Jr. during her residence in Los Angeles has
been superintendent of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, and her
services in behalf of and to that great institution make her one of the
interesting women of Southern California.
Mrs. Walker comes of a family of scholars, ministers and profes-
sional people. She was born in New Brunswick, Canada, her maiden
name being Rahno Aitken. Mrs. Walker feels that her life work is a
direct product of the influences and training she received from her
father and mother. Her father was the Rev. William Aitken, a native
of Scotland and a graduate of Edinburgh University and a Scotch Pres-
byterian minister. He married Jane Noble, whose people lived at Stra-
bane, County Tyrone, Ireland. Mrs. Walker was one of a family of nine
children, all of whom are still living. Four of her brothers and one sister
were overseas in the World war. Her oldest brother is a lawyer of
prominence, and her third brother is the present Lord Beaverbrook. Her
mother is still living at Newcastle, New Brunswick. Her father died iii
1913 in Canada, after having been retired for twenty-two years. Mrs.
Walker was educated at the Ministers' Daughters College in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and has been overseas a number of times. She is a woman of
culture, wide experience and travel. Her father neglected no opportunity
to give his children the broadest possible education, and it was a wonder-
ful home atmosphere in which Mrs. Walker and her brothers and sisters
grew up.
Mrs. Walker's husband, who died eleven years ago in the Pasadena
Hospital, was the only son of Horatio Walker, a famous American
artist. Horatio Walker Jr. was born in Canada, and was a graduate of
McGill University, at Montreal, with the B. A. degree, and also one in
medicine. Dr. and Mrs. Walker were married at Trinidad, Colorado,
in 1907. Prior to that time Mrs. Walker had taken the course for train-
ing in the Toronto General Hospital, and for a time was superintendent
of a hospital in Montreal. After her marriage and the death of her hus-
band, she returned to California and was elected superintendent of the
Good Samaritan Hospital eight years ago. At that time the hospital was
still at its old site on Seventh street, its organization including some
fifty or sixty nurses. Nine months later the institution was moved to
its present beautiful home on Orange street, and since then Mrs. Walker
has had an important part in the continuous upbuilding of the institu-
tion, until it ranks second to none in the West. The Hospital of the
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■ Good Samaritan is maintained under the auspices of the Episcopal
Church, Bishop Johnson being president of the Governing Board. While
in so many ways the skillful efficiency of the management is due to Mrs.
Walker, she is credited with one particular achievement, the introduction
in 1913 of the Student Body Government in the Nurses Training School.
Those competent to speak of the results of this plan freely credit Mrs.
Walker with much of its success. In six years the plan has passed
through more than the experimental stage, and it is now regarded as an
indispensable feature of the training school and has given a distinctively
high tone to the character and conduct of the body of nurses.
Charles H. Spencer, D. O., was one of the founders of the present
College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, of which he is secretary
and treasurer. He is also honored as president of the California Osteo-
pathic Association and has done much to build up and extend the practice
of osteopathy on the Pacific slope. A brief history of osteopathy in Cali-
fornia is published on other pages of this work.
Dr. Spencer was born at Gilboa, Ohio, November 12, 1875, a
son of Benjamin S. Spencer. His education was the product of attend-
ing the grammar and high schools of Ohio up to April, 1891. At that
date, sixteen years old, he received a teacher's certificate and much of
his active life has been spent in educational affairs. For three and
a half years he taught in Putnam County, Ohio, and then after a six
months' course at the Illinois Normal University he taught school, in
McLean County of that state two years. Another year was spent in
teaching in Putnam County, Ohio, after which he entered the S. S. Still
College of Osteopathy at Des Moines, Iowa, and received his degree in
June, 1902. He took special work for three months in physiology and
pathology at the University of Chicago, and returned to Des Moines as
an instructor in the Still College of Osteopathy. During the summer
of 1903 he was again a student in the University of Chicago.
Dr. Spencer has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1905. He
assisted in the organization of the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy,
and was its vice president until 1914, when as elsewhere noted, it was
consolidated with the Pacific College of Osteopathy, resulting in the
present College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Besides his
duties with this institution Dr. Spencer has carried on a large private
practice in Los Angeles. His offices are in the Hollingsworth Building.
He is a member of the Annandale Country Club and a democrat in
politics. At Humboldt, Iowa, August 24, 1904, Dr. Spencer married
Jennie Connor Beguin. Dr. Spencer has two children. His son Ray-
mond C. served in the 144th Field Artillery, an organization known as
"The Grizzlies," with many memorable exploits to their credit in the
World war. His daughter Margaret Jean was born in 1917.
Emory D. Martindale, a successful lawyer of Los Angeles, has
many of the qualities and has had many of the experiences which are
typical of the sound American stock from which he springs. He early
learned to be dependent upon his own resources and has relied upon
the principle of self-help. He began working for a living when a small
boy. He paid for his own education and like Abraham Lincoln, of
whom he is a great admirer, studied law and men largely at first hand,
with only incidental contact with the institution of learning.
Mr. Martindale was born in a great center of culture and learning,
Chautauqua County, New York, in the township of Chautauqua, five miles
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from the county seat of Mayville. His birth occurred October 7, 187L .
His parents were John S. and Electa (Stebbehs) Martindale. The Mar-
tindales were EngHsh while the Stebbins were of original Holland Dutch
ancestr>'. Most of the generations on both sides were identified with
agriculture. The maternal grandparents Stebbins were among the first
settlers of Chautauqua County, going there with ox-cart and teams and
clearing away some of the heavy timber to get room for their first
buildings. The Martindales were a Pennsylvania family. Mr. Martin-
dale's mother died in 1883 at the age of thirty-nine. John S. Martin-
dale, who died at Long Beach, California, in February, 1911, was for
about ten months a private soldier in the Union army during the Civil
war. When he first volunteered his parents used their influence to get
him released. Later he was drafted October 16, 1862, was mustered in
at Camp Howe as a member of Company D of the 169th Pennsylvania
Infantry. He was mustered out with his company on July 26, 1863. He
took his place in the line of battle at Gettysburg just as the enemy was
beginning to retreat. In early life he was a farmer and later owned a
sawmill in Chautauqua County and from that mill delivered a great
deal of lumber used in improving the grounds of the Chautauqua Assem-
bly. He died at the age of seventy-four. He and his wife had three
sons and three daughters, all living except the youngest, Frederick, who
died in infancy. The others are: Lloyd S., a rancher at Eliwanda,
California; Alice, wife of Irving G. Adams, of Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, New York; Emory D. ; Ida J., wife of Hiram B. Johnson, their
home being on a two hundred eighty acre ranch at Hinckley in San
Bernardino county; and Mary E., wife of Rev. Burt J. Edwards, a
minister of the Free Methodist Church at Wichita, Kansas.
Emory D. Martindale was twelve years old when his mother died.
His father was a comparatively poor man, and the son after his mother's
death spent his summer vacation working on the farm until he was
twenty-one years of age. Besides the common schools he attended high
school at Sherman and Westfield in his native county, and for several
seasons took normal course in the Chautauqua Summer School. For
eight years he was a teacher in his native county. The first money he
ever really owned and earned was thirty dollars paid him for six months'
work. The summer he was sixteen he weighed not over ninety pounds
and was employed in driving his father's team during the construction
of the Chautauqua Lake Railway, then a steam road, now operated by
electricity. Mr. Martindale taught school for two years, 1906-08, in the
Philippine Islands.
On returning from the Orient in 1908 he located at Los Angeles
and spent one term in the University of Southern California Law School.
He had studied law while teaching in New York State and in the Philip-
pines. He was admitted to the California bar in February, 1909, and since
then has been engaged in a general growing practice as a lawyer. He
was candidate for Congress on the prohibition ticket in 1912, and a can-
didate for the legislature in 1914. Mr. Martindale is a member of the
First Baptist Church of Hollywood.
August 30, 1914, he married Mrs. LolHe B. (Fielding) O'Connor,
of Los Angeles. The year of his marriage Mrs. Martindale was cam-
paign manager in his contest for the Legislature. Mrs. Martindale's son,
J. Robert O'Connor, is now United States District Attorney. Reports
from Washington say that he is the youngest Federal district attorney
in the country. He is prominent and well known in Southern California,
and lives at South Pasadena. Mrs. Martindale was bom at Fayette,
Missouri.
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Allin L. Rhodes, known for his many conspicuous interests in finan-
cial affairs, is a true son of the Golden West, a native of Calaveras
County and representative of a family that has been in California seventy
years.
His father, the late Alonzo Rhodes, was bom at Lumberton, North
Carolina, May 25, 1825, and the Rhodes family is still a prominent one
in the Old North State. Alonzo, however, spent his early manhood in
Tennessee and Mississippi until in 1849 he joined the argonauts to Cali-
fornia, making the trip overland. He farmed in San Joaquin County until
1856, mined in Calaveras County until 1872, and from that year until he
retired in 1891 was occupied with real estate and conveyancing in Stock-
ton, where he is best remembered in a business way. In 1886 he and
associates took over the street railway system of Stockton, and during
his connection therewith it was greatly improved and extended, with ser-
vice adequate to that growing and progressive city. Alonzo Rhodes
moved to Los Angeles in 1899, and spent the last five years of his life
here. He died in May, 1904. He was a member of the Society of
Cahfornia Pioneers. At Stockton March 15, 1855, he married Miss Anna
MacVicar, a native of Mississippi, and of their six children three are
living, Alonzo Willard of Los Angeles, and Mary A. who lives with her
brother Allin.
During his boyhood and youth in Stockton, Allin L. Rhodes attended
the public schools, but took his professional education in the University
of Michigan, where he was graduated in the law course with the degree
LL.B. After his admission to the bar he practiced at Stockton until a
break down in health in 1897 compelled him to abandon his profession
there. After two years of recuperation among the Sierras with refreshed
energies he resumed his career at Los Angeles in the fall of 1899, and
the following spring entered the legal department of the Title Abstract
& Trust Company and about six months later took the general manage-
ment of its affairs.
In August, 1913 those in touch with Los Angeles business will recall
the consolidation of this company with the Los Angeles Title Insurance
Company, under the latter name, with Mr. Rhodes as general manager
and director, the offices he holds today. In January, 1914 the company
also absorbed the Los Angeles Title & Trust Company, giving it unri\aled
facilities. The business of the company has assumed such proportions
that it has recently, as shown by the reports issued by the Insurance De-
partments of the various States, been handling a greater volume of title
business than any other company in America engaged in the title insurance
business exclusively.
Mr. Rhodes is also president of the Brearley Investment Company
and a director of the Azuza Orange Company. He is a York Rite Mason
and Shriner, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and in politics
a democrat.
The Urban Milit.\ry School was founded in the fall of 1907.
Many of the earlier pupils have completed their courses and in the
arena of practical life have signalized the training and advantages of
the days they spent in this school. It is through these young men that
their practical working days and in their character that the success of
the school is thus justified. These old^r students and the parents of
many boys who have attended or are in attendance at the school, speik
with remarkable unanimity in praise not only of the opportunities for
intellectual training but also for those influences and safeguards that
are thrown around the boys while in the school.
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The school opened with fifteen pupils enrolled, but for several years
past it has cared for the specified limit of attendance, seventy-five boys.
The first location of the school was at Ninth and Beacon streets, but in
1910 it moved to its present home, in the beautiful Westlake residence
■district of Los Angeles. There is also a summer school maintained at
Catalina Island, where a class of twenty boys live in tents and enjoy
superlative advantages of camp life under proper supervision and regu-
lations.
Tlie object of the Urban Military School is to prepare boys for
.■admission to West Point, Annapolis, St. Paul's, Groton, St. Mark's,
Hotchkiss, St. Vincent's, Thacher's and other similar schools. It has
laeen highly successful in achieving its aim expressed in giving that fair
.and individual attention so necessary to the welfare and happiness of
boys and laying the foundation for education in its broadest sense, incul-
icating principles of integrity in word and deed, teaching self-reliance
:and establishing habits of study, punctuality and application. The man-
agers of the school have found that these ideals can be best attained
tthrough the advantages of military training. Military discipline is an
-essential feature of the school life, though by no means the principal
•end and aim, furnishing rather the environment and the routine in which
the other purposes may be most appropriately worked out.
The Urban Military School is for both resident and day pupils. The
headmaster from the beginning has been Mr. C. C. Burnett, an educator
of many years experience. The general management of the school,
especially its home life and the facilities and influences surrounding
those who live at the school, are under the direction of Miss Mary
McDonnell.
Walter P. Story. To the initiative and resources commanded by
Walter P. Story Los Angeles is indebted for one of its sky scraper
office structures in the business district, the Story Building, which he
began in April, 1908. It was completed April 1, 1910, and at that
time was regarded as the most modern office building in the city, twelve
stories high, and with a frontage of 120 feet on Broadway and 150 feet
■on Sixth Street.
The Story family is an old and prominent one in the State of Mon-
tana, and from there much of their wealth and enterprise have been
drawn into the upbuilding of Southern California. Walter P. Story
was born at Bozeman, Montana, December 18, 1883, and is a son of
Nelson and Ellen (Trent) Story. His father was a Montana pioneer
:and credited with one of the largest individual fortunes in that state.
He was born in Ohio in 1828 and his paternal ancestry went back in
New England history to about 1640. Nelson Story grew up on a farm,
but had a partial college education, and in early manhood identified
himself with the western frontier. He was a participant in the early
freighting between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, and as
a miner, freighter, rancher and business man of varied interests, his
career belongs to the history of California, Montana, and a number of
territories. For many years he was president of the Gallatin Valley
National Bank at Bozeman, Montana, and was one of the most helpful
factors in building up that city. He built beautiful and palatial homes
both in Bozeman and Los Angeles.
Walter P. Story attended public school at Bozeman until 1894,
when he first came to Los Angeles with his parents. In this city he
attended private and public schools and at the age of sixteen entered
Shattuck Military School at Faribault, Minnesota. He was there until
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1902, and in 1903 he graduated from Eastman Business College at
Poughkeepsie, New York. Returning to Bozeman, he became identified
with the Commercial National Bank, an outgrowth of the Gallatin Valley
National Bank of which his father was president. Beginning as book-
keeper and teller he continued -his services for two years and then
returned to Los Angeles and engaged in the real estate business with
Arthur E. Tandy under the name Tandy & Story. He dissolved that firm
about the time he began the erection of the Story Building. This
office structure stands on a lot which Nelson Story bought in 1895, for
a purchase price of fifty thousand dollars. The transaction was con-
cluded with a cablegram from Colonel James Lankershim, who was then
in Paris. When Walter P. Story was fourteen years old his father
presented him with this lot. Mr. Story when he began the erection
of a million dollar building borrowed half the amount from his father
and negotiated the rest by loans from local bankers. The building has
been a profitable one, and the obligations agamst it has long been
cleared away.
Mr. Story is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic
Club, Midwick Country Club, Los Angeles C^ountry Club, Overland Club
of Pasadena, Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Chamber of Com-
merce and the Los Angeles Realty Board. He was appointed by former
Governor Hiram Johnson on the Board of Directors of the' Sixth District
Agricultural Association, and was reappointed by Governor Stephens.
Mr. Story married April 21, 1903, Miss Geraldine Rowena Baird, of San
Francisco.
Edward Gerhard Kuster. A prominent member of the bar at
Los Angeles, who has long been mainly engaged in general corporation
and probate practice, and is recognized as an authority in rate matters,
is a native of Indiana, born at Terre Haute, August 15, 1870. His
parents were Dr. Charles Edward and Emma (Eshman) Kuster.
Dr. Charles Edward Kuster was bom in Germany, March 27, 1842,
and was seven years old when he accompanied his parents to the United
States and grew up at Indianapolis, Indiana. His medical education
was secured in the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, and Rush Medical
College, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1865. Post graduate
courses followed in England, France, Germany, Austria and Scotland,
and he returned to the United States with thorough training in medi-
cine and surgery. The outbreak of the Civil war gave him experience
on the field of battle, where professional skill was so sadly needed. Dr.
Kuster enlisted in the Indiana Volunteer Infantry in 1864 and after
carrying a gun with his comrades for six weeks, was examined and
appointed surgeon of the regiment, although he had not yet received
his diploma. He served out his one hundred days' enlistment, then
returned to college for graduation, then re-entered the army and served
professionally until the end of the war.
Dr. Kuster located at Terre Haute, Indiana, and engaged in prac-
tice there until 1885, when he came to Los Angeles. He had been a
member of the board of health at Terre Haute and under appointment
by President Arthur, was examining surgeon for the pension board.
After coming to Los Angeles, he continued the practice of medicine until
he retired in l907. At Terre Haute he was married to Emma Eshman,
who, at death, left but one son, Edward Gerhard.
Edward G. Kuster received his preliminary educational training at
Terre Haute and Los Angeles, later was a student at Berlin, Germany,
632 LOS ANGELES
and after returning to the United States was graduated in 1896 from the
Los Ang les High School. He studied law with one of the leading firms
of Los Angeles, took a course in the University of California and was
graduated with the degree of B. L., and a post-graduate course in the
university, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Cali-
fornia, March 13, 1902, and in the United States Courts in 1903. Fol-
lowing his admission to the bar, Mr. Kuster became chi;f clerk for
Graves, O'Melveny & Shankland, his former preceptors, and upon the
dissolution of the firm, continued with Mr. O'Melveny in the same
capacity. In 1906 he opened his own office at Los Angeles, three years
later lorming the firm of Kuster, Loeb & Loeb, which was dissolved
in 1911, since which he has practiced alone.
Mr. Kuster has always taken an active part in the Los Angeles
Symphony Orchestra, a civic institution maintained by the people of
Los Angeles and Pasadena for the benefit of Southern California. He
is a director and secretary of this organization and is devoting much of
his time to bringing its benefits into a wider field. This is the oldest
symphonic organization west of Chicago. It stands today free from
indebtedness, free from commercialism, dependent upon the people of
the community alone for its life and sustenance, and serving all the peo-
ple which its sustaining fund will permit it to reach. The concert sea-
son of 1919 opened on October 17th, with a great gala performance in
celebration of the orchestra's centenary. This enterprise, as others with
which Mr. Kuster has been connected, has benefitted by his interest
and energy. An instance may be cited. In 1910 Mr. Kuster became
managing director of the Automobile Club of Southern California. At
that time the club membership was 30,000. When he resigned in 1916,
the membership had reached 11,000, and carried an insurance business
aggregating a third of a million dollars. Mr. Kuster is identified with
many business, professional and social organizations, among these being
the American Automobile Association, of which he is coast representative,
and the California, Los Angeles Athletic, San Gabriel Valley Country
and University clubs.
At Bakersfield, California, on August 1, 1913, Mr. Kuster was mar-
ried to Miss Edith Emmons.
I
Henry L. Musser. The Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, which
was incorporated in 1896, with H. L. Musser as president, has by a per-
sistent and active service contributed values of untold millions to Cali-
fornia and the great Southwest. It is much more than an ordinary seed-
distributing house. Henry L. Musser for over twenty years made a
scientific study of seeds and plants with regard to their adaptability to
soil and climatic conditions. The company of which he is president has
carefully extended its facilities for propagation and breeding of seeds
under the peculiar conditions of the southwestem climate, and today, be-
sides the large plant at Los Angeles, has an extensive acreage where
seeds are grown and handled under the direct supervision of the experts
of the company.
Through the long continued experiments carried on by this organiza-
tion have been introduced some vegetables of national reputation, includ-
ing the C'alifornia Pearl Cauliflower, the Los Angeles Market Lettuce, the
Casaba Melons, the White Rose Potatoes, the Anaheim ChiH and' Pi-
miento Peppers and many varieties of vegetation of local prominence, all
of which have meant millions of dollars to Los Angeles and California.
While the business was built up practically from nothing, it now ranks
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with the largest seed houses in the United States. The firm not only
grows s eds, but handles as jobbers and retailers seeds of all kinds, and
have established a large mail order business. The company's export
business extends to every agricultural center in the world.
The Aggeler & Muss:r Seed Company requires sixty thousand feet
of floor space in its three Los Angeles plants. A hundred persons are
on the pay roll, and the amount paid out in wages and salaries is several
thousand dollars a week. Mr. Musser is president, Mr. E. A. Aggeler
is vice president, and W. B. Early is secretary and treasurer. The volume
of business is in excess of one million dollars per annum.
Henry Lincoln Musser was born at Marietta, in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, May 3, 1865, and before coming to Los Angeles was in
the lumber business. He is the son of Henry S. and Mary G. Musser.
His father was for sixty-two years engaged in the lumber business at
Marietta. Henry L. Musser attend :?d public school, and finished his
education in the Lebanon Valley College, at Annville, Pennsylvania,
graduating with the class of 1884. Mr. Musser was a delegate to the
Pacific Coast Congress for a League of Nations held in San Francisco
during February, 1919. This brought out an interesting fact, showing
that a prophet is not altogether without honor.
Now that the "League of Nations" is a reality, it is a matter of
interest to read the following prophetic oration delivered by Henry Lin-
coln Musser at the time of his graduation from Lebanon Valley College,
Annville, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1884:
THE TENDENCY OF GOVERNMENT IS UNIVERSAL.
The requirement of a universal government is that there be con-
gressional representatives from every nation and that there be an inter-
national congress in every way as perfect as our nation's Congress at
Washington aims to be. That it should have regular sessions and dis-
cuss the general welfare of the world.
It would be the purpose of this congress to bring all people to a
common equality ; to educate the uneducated, and to Christianize the
heathen : dot the fair lands everywhere with schools and churches, and
everywhere modify nature to the uses of man ; all this to be done at the
expense of the world, for all, by all. After a careful review, we can not
help but see that the past and present tends to a universal government,
although we have only gotten so far as an occasional international con-
ference, we must admit this to be the dawn of universal government.
Let us review and see if each change of government, from the be-
ginning of any government, has not been one step toward a republic.
Previous to the patriarchal government there was no center of
power; this was the first established controlling center; next an abso-
lute monarchy, followed soon with a king and council of wise men.
This was succeeded by a limited monarchy, in which the voice of the
people was having authority, which later led to pure democracy, which
was as bad as no government at all, because there was no concentration
of authority. This led to a representative democracy — a republic which
proved to be the ultimate, when we might well say that by Divine in-
spiration the Constitution of the United States was formed.
Here we have followed the tendency of all government and find
that we are inevitably led to a republic. It is the ultimate government.
It is now only sectional. To be perfect it must be universal, and I be-
lieve if mankind exists to see their ideal millennium, it will be governed
by a universal republic.
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You will all admit the possibilities of such a government; it could
exist just as easily as the United States. Nations would simply sustain
the same relation to each other as states.
Let us take a moment to contemplate the results of such a govern-
ment. As the United States spends millions of dollars for national im-
provement, so could a world republic expend millions for world im-
provement ; an expense that would scarcely be felt by a world of people
who would receive incalculable benefits.
Mr. John P. Morgan mentions such benefits when speaking of the
relations of the United States with Mexico. He said: "When Key
West is"connected with the mainland with railway or a ship channel, and
Cape Catoche is connected by railway with the Mexican system and with
the inter-oceanic canals, a sea will be inclosed within the Hues of the
two republics that will add more to the civilization of the western
hemisphere than the Mediterranean has contributed to the advancement
and elevation of the human family in Europe, Asia and Africa which in-
closes its waters.
With a universal government, this and like improvements would be
made : all nature would be modified to the uses of man. To do this,
work would be abundant ; to rid the world of idleness alone would be a
grand achievement.
Take the expense that is required to support the armies of the world
and apply it to the education of the ignorant everywhere and you have
done the work you were ordained to do — and it can be done only under
a universal government.
All this can be done. It must be done. It will be done. The past
shows this tendency, and let it come soon, but let us grow into it with a
calm and secure growth that can never become corrupted.
Since the foregoing oration was delivered, the Key West-Tampico
Railway has been completed, the Panama Canal has been constructed,
and a League of Nations is a reality that there may be a universal gov-
ernment for all the people, by all the people, a World Republic.
After leaving college, Mr. jMusser was for four years in the Railway
Mail Service on a run between New York City and Pittsburgh, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. He then returned to Marietta and became asso-
ciated with his father in the lumber business and was manager for the
elder Musser until 1896. On coming to Los Angeles he organized the
Johnson & Musser Seed Company, becoming its president. In 1903 Mr.
Johnson died, and in 1906 the business was incorporated as the Aggeler
& Musser Seed Company.
Mr. Musser is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the
Chamber of Commerce, and is a republican. At Marietta, Pennsylvania,
April 14, 1896, he married Emma Pomeroy. They have one daughter,
Mary, a graduate of the Hollywood High School.
William Alfred M.\rtin, who has rounded out twenty years of
active experience as a lawyer, has been a prominent member of the Los
Angeles bar since 1903. Mr. Martin has offices in the Hibernian Build-
ing and resides at 1309 West 12th Street.
He was born October 14, 1878, at Indiana Bay, Arkansas, a son
of Micajah D. and Sarah (Rodman) Martin. He acquired his early
education in the common schools of Arkansas, attended Hendrix College
at Conway in that state, also the University of Arkansas, and took his
law work in Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee. He gradu-
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ated LL. B. in 1899, and in the same year was admitted to the Tennessee
bar. Mr. Martin came to Cahfornia in 1902, locating at Los Angeles,
and on April 6, 1903, was admitted by the Supreme Court of California
and was admitted to the Circuit and District Federal Courts February
15, 1909.
He is a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and in politics is a republican.
Fred G. Weik. Property appraising is a delicate task, requiring
judgment as well as experience, a knowledge of past history and of all
possible influence aft'ecting property values. It is an art rather than a
profession, and perhaps for that reason the qualifications of the success-
ful appraiser can never be acquired from books or schools. Nothing
comes closer to the bed rock fundamentals of modern business than accur-
ate and trustworthy valuation, and while there are many definite rules
as to the appraisal of such physical properties, such as manufacturing
plants, there are many complicated factors in the matter of valuation
of real estate that can never be subject to a fixed routine.
On the third floor of the H. W. Helmann Building the name F. G.
Weik appears as the personal title to a business in investments, loans,
fire insurance and bonds, property appraisals and real estate agency. The
business is the outgrowth of thirty years' experience on the part of Mr.
Weik. His many clients and business interests generally regard Mr.
Weik as the superlative authority on all matters connected with the
appraisal of property in the Los Angeles district.
Through Mr. Weik it is conservatively estimated a volume of trans-
actions in loans and real estate is handled to the annual aggregate of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. His services are in constant demand
in connection with the placing of mortgage loans, and the making of
real estate investments generally. It would be difficult to overestimate
the great advantages that have accrued to Los Angeles in the past years
as a result of Mr. Weik's business activities. He is undoubtedly the
most widely experienced and competent man in his line in Southern
California.
He started life as a farmer boy in Germany and came to Los Angeles
at the age of sixteen with hardly a dollar to his name. He was born
at Almersbach, Germany, September 14, 1873. His parents, G. F. and
Fredericka (Kuhnle) Weik, both spent their lives in Germany. Their
three sons and two daughters all live in the United States. Mr. Weik
also had three uncles, brothers of his father, who were American soldiers
in our Civil war, and nine of his relatives were in the World war.
Fred G. Weik attended school in Germany and as a boy came to this
country and lived for about seven years in New York City. He attended
school there as opportunity permitted and he earned his living largely
by selling papers, chiefly the New York Evening News. He cried
papers day after day on Third avenue, in New York City. In 1887
coming to California he was engaged in a bakery at Monrovia and
Pasadena, and eventually bought the Pasadena bakery. He laid che
foundation for his present fortune in the bakery business at Pasadena
and Los Angeles, conducting the enterprise successfully for a period
of sixteen years. From a small shop he developed a large enterprise and
his wagons delivered his goods to all the nearby towns. While in the
bakery business he became more or less interested in property and its
values, and also built up a large personal acquaintance. Many of his
636 LOS ANGELES
former bread customers are now his clients in the realty business. He
has given all his time to the real estate, loan and insurance business since
1905.
He does a large amount of brokerag; business, being the trusted
agent for many private estates. This department of his business is an
important one, handling the interests of absent owners. He is also
individually owner of four ranches, including the largest in the city
and County of Imperial, besides other valuable holdings in the city and
County of Los Angeles. Other property interests are in San Bernardino
County. He has been interested in the Imperial Valley since the begin-
ning of its wonderful development. His business might now be described
as a limited one, since he attends largely to his own properties and
handling of city and country prop:?rty for his old clients and friends.
Mr. Weik is a director of the Bell Water Company of Bell, Cali-
fornia, and is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and
of many local organizations. For over sixteen years he has held a com-
mission as a notary public. Politically h^ is a republican, and in every
sense of the word is a loyal American in thorough sympathy with the
best traditions of American government and life.
Mr. Weik owns a fine residence at 2790 South Eighth Street. He
married at Pasadena in tha Lutheran church of that city September 12,
1898, Anna Ilmer. Her father is H. llmer, a Pasadena pioneer still
living at the age of eighty-three. He has been a resident of Pasadena
over forty years and was engaged in the furniture and upholstering busi-
ness there until he retired when about seventy years of age. Mr. and
Mrs. Weik have four children : Helen, Margaret, William H. and Louisa
A., all natives of Los Angeles County. Margaret is a student in the Los
Angeles High School.
J. A. McGarry, M. D. The work of a proficient and capable phy-
sician and surgeon, with the incidental services given to several institu-
tions and movements, has been Dr. McGarry's contribution to an unusu-
ally notable family record in Los Angeles. Dr. McGarry is a son of the
late Daniel M. McGarry, whose career has been described on other pages
and is one of the four sons who have done much to keep the name in
fair esteem in Southern California.
Dr. McGarry was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 17, 1875, but has
lived in Los Angeles since boyhood. He graduated in 1893 with the
Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Vincent's College and took the Master
or Arts degree in 1895. From the University of California he received
the M. D. degree in 1898, and has also a number of times attended the
New York Post-Graduate Hospital. During the ensuing twenty years
he has been steadily engaged in the practice of medicine at Los Angeles.
For one year he was an interne in the Los Angeles County Hospital and
for a year and a half was assistant surgeon of the Soldiers' Home. He
began the regular practice of medicine in 1901.
Formerly Dr. McGarry was examiner for the Insanity Commission
of Los Angeles County and was on the Board of United States Pension
Examiners. He is independent in politics, a member of the Los Angeles
County, California State and American Medical Associations and belongs
to the Newman Club, Knights of Columbus and St. Vincent's Parish.
June 26, 1901, in the Plaza Church, with Father Clifford performing
the ceremony, he married Miss Christine Kurtz, of Los Angeles, daughter
of Dr. Joseph Kurtz. Dr. and Mrs. McGarry have three children, all
natives of Los Angeles, Catherine, Margaret and J. Felbert.
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Marion Warde. While the appreciation of her talents is interna-
tional, there is a conscious pride on the part of Los Angeles in Marion
Warde, owing to the fact that for a number of years she has lived in
California and here has earned more than a passing name as a dramatic
artist.
Marion Warde, who in private life is Mrs. Walter C. Farnum, was
horn at Freder'ckton, Nevv' Brunswick, daughter of James Scott and
Marion (Warde) Scott. Her parents live retired in Humboldt County,
California. Her father was promin nt on the stage for many years,
traveling in various productions, including the Booth and Barrett organi-
zation.
She was educated in Washington, D. C, New York and St. Paul in
both public and private schools. She grew up in the atmosphere of the
stage and at the age of twelve regularly began taking juvenile parts. She
worked in stock companies and in many of the leading organizations that
have been favorites on the American stage. For eight years she had
shows of her own on the road, touring all th; states and Canada. For
four years she wfas engaged in lyceum work, and for a year and a half
was in the moving picture field at Los Angeles. She was with the
Lyceum Company until late in 1918, when she left the road on account
of the influenza epidemic. On February 1, 1919, she opened her own
dramatic school at Los Angeles in Blanchard Hall. Since opening her
studio in June, 1919, thr:e of her students are working professionally in
motion pictures and two are in dramatic road shows.
Marion Warde as an emotional actress has been one of the best on
the American stage in recent years. During the Liberty Loan cam-
paigns she was generous of her talents, and used her skill and reper-
toire to effective purposes in aiding subscription work. At the time she
gave her dramatic recitations the "Battle Llymn of the Republic" and
"The Flag of the U. S. A.." One of her most popular entertainments
is a dramalogue entitled "The Bull Fight" given with Spanish costumes
and settings. In the "Show Lion" she appears in typical circus garb.
She also presents the wonderful Biblical poem "Hagar" and in that her
versatility is pronounced. For several seasons she was leading woman
with the noted English actor, Charles Erin Verner, and also played
leads with James Keane. She was in the Warde-Farnum Company,
and for two seasons was in concert in Canada and the Northwest. She
has appeared in dramatic recital under the auspices of the most prominent
Shakespeare and literary clubs.
Marion Warde has been the recipient of a great deal of praise and
favorable criticism coming from sources which bespeak the highest praise
for her wonderful character and abilities. ■ About a year ago the secre-
tary of the Advertising Club of Los Angeles in a personal letter to Miss
Warde, said: "The Advertising Club is exceptionally fortunate at all
times to have come before it the very best talent available the country
over and I unhesitatingly desire to say that for real fascination and
dramatic ability that compels and attracts, we have yet to learn of your
superior." Many similar endorsements might be quoted, but the people
of Los Angeles hardly need any repetition of the praise which they
bestow directly from the heart.
Marion Warde is holding informal salons every other Saturday at
her studio, which have become such a popular rendezvous for visiting
and local dramatic and screen artists.
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Frank Crowell Bishop, M. D., whpse work is as a specialist in
mental hygiene and was employed as a specialist in the service of the
United States Army for six months during the war, is medical director
of two well known institutions, the Canyon Crest Sanitarium at Glendale,
and the Compton Sanitarium at Compton.
Doctor Bishop was born at Danville, Illinois, July 6, 1883, a son
of William L. and Emma (Adams) Bishop. His mother is still living at
Danville, where his father, who was a wholesale grocer, died in 1905.
Doctor Bishop has a younger brother, Lewis G., who served more than
a year with the Ordnance Department of the army in France.
Doctor Bishop as a young man was employed as private secretary
to Judge Sawyer, at Terre Haute, Indiana, three years. On his father's
death he returned to DanvUle, Illinois, and was in the music instrument
and supply business under the name Bishop & Company for two years.
He sold his store and began the study of medicine at the University of
Louisville, where he spent three years, and in 1912 came to Los Angeles,
and after two years received his M. D. degree from the University of
California in 1914. Soon after completing his medical studies Doctor
Bishop served an internship in a mental and nervous institutions. After
one year, with only sixty dollars in cash capital, he took the management
of the Compton Sanitarium and the Canyon Crest Sanitarium, institu-
tions which had been started and had failed under other ownership, and
have made these highly specialized institutions for mental and nervous
patients. The Canyon Crest Sanitarium has one main building and four
cottages, while at Compton are four buildings, two for men and two for
women. There are sixty-five beds at Compton, and thirty at Canyon
Crest. Doctor Bishop also maintains private offices for his clientage at
the Marsh-Strong Building.
As a matter of patriotic duty, he spent six months in the Department
of Mental Hygiene of the army, at the Letterman General Hospital, in
San Francisco, from September 18 to February 19, 1918-19. Doctor
Bishop is a member of the Los Angeles County and State Medical
Societies, also a member of the Inominate Medical Society, and belongs
to the California Country Club and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
and the Phi Chi Fraternity.
Doctor Bishop was instructor in mental and nervous diseases during
the years 1915-16 in the medical department of the University of South-
ern California, and is now on the staff of the County Hospital service in
the department of neuro-medicine.
February 12, .1911, he married Kathryn Dumesnil of Louisville,
Kentucky, where she was born and educated. Doctor and Mrs. Bishop
have three children: William H., born at Louisville, and Jean M. and
Frank C. Jr., born in Los Angeles.
Hon. Asa Wesley Woodford since 1904 has been a resident of
Southern California, with home at Elsinore, where, with the beautiful
lake and hot springs and the mountain scenery, more appropriate environ-
ment could hardly be. conceived for the closing years of a career which
has expressed so many strenuous and successful activities as that of
Colonel Woodford.
Colonel Woodford achieved fame and business prominence from a
youth of almost poverty and meager opportunities. He was born two
miles west of the historic town of Phillippi, in Barbour County, in what
later became West Virginia, May 20, 1833. His parents were John
Howe and Nancy (Minear) Woodford. Through his father he is of
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English descent, and members of the ancestry played many prominent
and patriotic parts in American history. Colonel Woodford is of Revo-
lutionary stock. His maternal ancestors were also represented in the
war of the Revolution and came originally from France. In America, at
least, it has never been a dishonor for a good and substantial family to
bear the cross of poverty. When Asa Wesley Woodford was a boy his
people were in humble circumstances, and he early learned the lessons
of work and self-denial. The only school he ever attended was in a
log cabin on Pleasant Creek, near his birthplace. From his rugged
environment he acquired the qualities of thrift, courtesy and honor, and
by his individual efforts accpired also a real education, consisting of
logical mental processes, sound judgment, and an intellectual curiosity
that has urged him to acquaintance with many subjects outside his per-
sonal broad range of experience.
When he was seventeen years of age he hired himself to a cattle
drover at thirty-five cents a day. He walked and led an ox before a
drove of cattle to Philadelphia, a distance of four hundred fifty miles.
That trip was made in the winter of 1849. In order not to dissipate his
hard-earned wages on the luxuries of travel, he returned home on foot,
trudging through the mud and snow. About twelve years later he
traveled over the same road, this time with six hundred 'head of cattle
owned by himself, and sold his stock to the government to feed the
army. He was the first rancher in West Virginia to drive stock from
that state to the Eastern markets during the Civil war. He frequently
supplied army headquarters at Washington with his beef. In 1863,
when the Confederate generals, Jones and Imboden, swept across Vir-
ginia, they confiscated two hundred fifty head of cattle from Colonel
Woodford, and though they paid him for the stock in Confederate
money, Colonel Woodford still keeps those examples of engraving by
the Confederate government as a souvenir of the war.
As a result of much industry. Colonel Woodford had become estab-
lished as a farmer and stockman in West Virginia by the outbreak of
the rebellion. He was one of the stanch Union men in the western
counties of Old Virginia and voted against the ordinance of secession,
and when the war came on he aspired to lead a regiment organized in
Ritchie County with the rank of colonel, but was superseded by Colonel
Moses Hall, then a prominent figure in West Virginia. During the re-
maining period of the war he continued in the cattle business.
In subsequent years he became widely known not only as a demo-
crat in his home state, but as also one of the most prominent land owners
and cattle breeders. At one time he owned twenty-two hundred acres
of land in Lewis and Barbour Counties, West Virginia, including some
of the finest land in the state. He developed on this farm a herd of
Hereford cattle known all over the country, ,and several times he shipped
a cargo of beef cattle raised on his ranch direct to London and Liverpool.
His principal farm of eleven hundred acres near Weston also became
the scene of some profitable natural gas production. At Weston he
built a flour mill, which was profitably operated by him for about fifteen
years, and built and owned a large brick block on the main street of
that town, and still owns part of it.
In 1868 Colonel Woodford was elected on the democratic ticket to
the Legislature at Wheeling, and helped formulate some of the early
laws of the state. In 1871 he was elected sheriff of Lewis County and,
by virtue of that office, also was tax collector, serving six years. In 1882
he was nominated for senator from the Tenth District, but was defeated
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by his republican opponent. He was candidate for Governor of West
Virginia in 1892, and in a democratic mass convention at Grafton in
that year made a speech which was highly commended by William Jen-
nings Bryan, who chanced to be present. Colonel Woodford at that time
was advocating an advance brand of policies particularly as bearing on the
financial qu.stion, and subsequently adopted as leading planks in the
national democratic platform in 1896.
Colonel Woodford, on coming to California, in 1904, located at
Elsinor, in Riverside County, and there owns one of the most beautiful
homes in that vicinity. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has
been a Mason since 1864. Though he has traveled extensively in recent
years, covering practically every state of the Union and many parts of the
Old World, Colonel Woodford has found no climate and no environment
quite so agreeable as that of Elsinor.
In 1854, in Taylor County, Virginia, he married Miss Rebecca
Gather, daughter of Jasper Gather, a Baptist minister. Mrs. Woodford
died in 1S85. She was the mother of six children. Three are deceased,
named Flora S. N., Bruce S. and Glarkson J. The three living children
are Iris Columbia, Phoebe Jane and John Howe Woodford.
Gregory S. Woodford is vice president and managing director of the
California Board of Directors of Stollwerck Brothers, Incorporated, of
California, and vice president of the Stollwerck Chocolate Company of
New York, a firm of international reputation as manufacturers of cocoa
and chocolate.
Mr. Woodford, who has had a rapid rise in business affairs, was
born at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 1884. He is a grandson of the
venerable Asa Wesley Woodford of Elsinore, Riverside County, whose
personal history is given on other pages of this publication.
Gregory S. Woodford was reared and educated in Cleveland, being
five years of age when his parents removed to that city. He lived there
until he was about twenty years of age, and for about a year worked
as a newspaper man in Chicago, being a reporter with the Tribune,
Examiner and Journal. He next entered the service of Swift & Com-
pany as salesman, with Baltimore as his headquarters. He was with
that house about five years, and in 1915 came to California, locating at
San Francisco. Here he entered the service of Stollwerck Brothers, In-
corporated, and in 1916 was sent to Los Angeles as the company repre-
sentative in Southern California. In 1918 he was made vice president,
manager and one of the California directors of the company.
The chief factory of Stollwerck Brothers, Incorporated, is at Stam-
ford, Connecticut, but a new plant is soon to be built on the Pacific Coast
at San Francisco. This company maintains offices in New York, Boston,
Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Salt Lake
City, and a warehouse at Spokane.
Mr. Woodford regards himself a fixture in Los Angeles, and since
coming here has acquired a fine tract of three acres at Inglewood and
erected a beautiful home. He is a democrat in politics and is affiliated
with Inglewood Lodge No. 421, A. F. and A. M., Lodge No. 99 of the
Elks at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Optimist
Club, Press Club, Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufac-
turers' Association and the Jonathan Club.
At Cleveland, Ohio, July 29, 1902, he married Miss Edith M.
Satterfield of Mount Vernon, Illinois. Mrs. Woodford was born in
Texas, but was reared and educated at Mount Vernon, Illinois, her
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parents, W. N. and Etta (Reed) Satterfield, now living at Inglewood,
California. Mrs. Woodford was formerly very active in the Parent-
Teachers Association, being its chairman, but had to give up this re-
sponsibility on account of other duties. She is a member of the Cosmos
Club. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford have two children, Wesley and Flora,
both natives of Chicago, now attending the Inglewood schools.
Charles B. Hopper. If there is such a thing as a real estate man ^
"to the manner bom," the description would fit Charles B. Hopper
probably better than any other man in Southern California. The real
estate business seems to have run in the Hopper family. Mr. Hopper's
father was a successful real estate operator in the East, and also on the
Pacific Coast, and Mr. Hopper himself grew up in the atmosphere of a
real estate office and has known and wanted no other field of work since
he was a boy.
He is the subdivision man supreme and pre-eminent, and his work
in developing and selling subdivisions in and around Los Angeles is
probably too well known to require further introduction. In later years
his name and enterprise have been especially identified with the South-
gate Gardens and South Park Gardens.
Mr. Hopper was born at Titusville, the famous center of the Penn-
sylvania oil industry, September 26, 1880, a son of Isaac B. and Eliza-
beth (Harriman) Hopper, the former a native of New Jersey, and the
latter of Adrian, Michigan. The family came to California and located
at Los Angeles in 1895. Isaac Hopper died March 11, 1911, having
been retired several years before his death. Charles B. and his sister,
Mrs. Kelley Rees, of Portland, Oregon, are the only survivors of four
children.
Charles B. Hopper, the youngest, was educated in the gramm-'r and
high schools of Los Angeles, attended Leiand Stanford University, and
in 1896 went to work in the real estate business with his father. He
has been an independent operator since 1903, and it can be safely said
that no one is better versed in real estate values in Southern Ca'ifomia
than he. He is a specialist in subdivision property. He has built over
six hundred houses in this section, having developed the Lawndale dis-
trict, between Los Angeles and Redondo, and also the Western avenue
and Jefferson street district.
For the last two years he has been handling the famous Cudnhy
Ranch under the name of the Southgate Gardens, a tract of about two
thousand acres adjoining Los Angeles on the south. By 1919 a quarter
of this property had been sold. Development work began on the ranch
property in 1917, and within less than two years it has been completely
transfonned, now having broad paved avenues, with sewers, • lectric
light and all modern improvements, and many of the avenues are lined
by attractive homes, the grounds being subdivided in half-acre units.
Besides the Southgate Gardens subdivision as a whole, there is a town-
site of Southgate, opened March 1, 1918, and now well developed with
stores, churches and schools.
The South Park Garden district is a very ambitious project, involv-
ing one thousand acres, located south of the new Goodyear Rubb?r Com-
pany plant, which will give employment to about seven thousand men.
South Park Gardens is divided into Mr. Hopper's favorite unit, a half
acre of ground, with all city improvements, a low price and good trans-
portation.
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Mr. Hopper knows how to market property and get it placed with
the right class of people, so that satisfaction is insured to all concerned.
He has been author of some of the most effective advertising campaigns
employed in the development and sale of Southern California property.
He has five real estate oiffices, including those at Ocean Park, Whittier
and Santa Ana. His main office, at 61 1 South Hill street, on the ground
floor of the Consolidated Realt}- Building, is said to be the largest and
finest real estate office on the Pacific Coast, and the best equipped sub-
division office in the West, or west of Chicago, though probably not even
\ Chicago has any office of the kind that equals it. Tlie office is exceed-
ingly large, with six thousand square feet of floor space, has special
auditorium for lectures and moving pictures, and this auditorium is used
every Tuesday and Thursday evenings and has been the medium for a
great deal of educational instruction regarding the citrus district. Mr.
Hopper operates three automobile excursions, with a free ranch dinner,
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and altogether he furnishes a
dollar's worth of service for every dollar he receives as commission.
Mr. Hopper is a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Athletic Club, California
Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Gramercy Tennis Club, and is a re-
publican. But the organization where his name is especially enshrined is
the Automobile Club of Southern California. He helped organize this
club, and in the capacity of secretary and treasurer for about four years
was the individual chiefly responsible for making it a real club, develop-
ing its membership from thirty to two thousand. Most of the real work
of increasing the membership and building up the organization was done
in Mr. Hopper's real estate office as a pastime from his other duties. In
recognition of what he did for the club, he was made an honorary mem-
ber for life, with no dues to pay. He is also a director and one of the
organizers of the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association, which has one
of the largest sites for cemetery purposes in California. Mr. Hopper's
recreation is in golf and tennis and in real estate.
His home is at 716 South Manhattan Place. He married Miss Helen
MacDonald, of Columbus, Ohio, at Los Angeles, June 28, 1909. She
was born and educated in Ohio, but finished her schooling in Los An-
geles. Mrs. Hopper is a member of the Friday Morning Club of Los
Angeles. They have two native daughters of Los Angeles, Virginia and
Elizabeth.
William H. Daum came to Southern California as industrial com-
missioner for the Santa Fe Railway Company, but soon resigned and
has since specialized in an almost unique profession, largely along the
line of his former experience as a railroad industrial commissioner. Mr.
Daum is credited with an important share of the enterprise and influence
through which a score or more of industries have been located and
developed in and around Los Angeles.
Mr. Daum was born at Nortonville, Kansas, September 11, 1883,
and all his early experience was in railroading. His parents were Wil-
liam and Margaret (Payne) .Daum. He attended the public schools of
Nortonville and graduating from the high school at Topeka, Kansas, in
1897, and soon afterward went to work for the Santa Fe Railway as
freight clerk and handler at Meriden, Kansas. The first year he was
paid twenty dollars a month. He was then telegraph operator at Atchi-
son six months, was transferred as telegraph operator to Malvern,
Kansas, then to Barclay, and in 1900 returned to Atchison as night
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agent. In 1903 the company sent him to Topeka as train dispatcher,
and in 1904 moved him further west to Albuquerque, where he had
charge of the telegraph department until December of that year. He
was then made agent of the Santa Fe at Holbrook, Arizona, and while
there was in the cattle business on the side. In 1906 he became superin-
tendent of terminals for the Santa Fe Railway Company at Seligman,
Arizona.
In 1907 Mr. Daum moved his headquarters to Los Angeles as indus-
trial commissioner for the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque. He
continued this work for five years, and in 1912 resigned to engage in the
industrial realty business for himself.
He was interested in the first big modern lemon packing and storage
house, locating it at San Dimas. He located a dozen fruit packing
houses in Southern California, and was associated with A. S. Bradford
in starting the town of Placentia. During his service as industrial com-
missioner for the Santa Fe he was instrumental in locating two hundred
twenty-three industries, a hundred seventy-five of them in Southern
California.
Some of the important industries which have been established with
Mr. Daum handling more or less of the negotiations are the American
Can Company, Republic Motor Truck Company, Griffin Car Wheel Com-
pany, American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company, Globe Oil Mills, Cali-
fornia Cotton Oil Company, Federal Box Company, Pacific Portable
Construction Company, Pan-American Petroleum Company, Charles R.
McCormack Lumber Company of Los Angeles and San Diego. Very
recently Mr. Daum had charge of the arrangements through which the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, established its
twenty-six million dollar rubber and cotton mill plant in Southern Cali-
fornia.
A tremendous amount of interest has been aroused by the coming
of the Goodyear Company to Los Angeles. The rubber and cotton mill
plant, when in full operation, will employ eight thousand people, and it
is the largest single industry ever established west of the Rocky Moun-
tains. Mr. Daum has recently figured in the discussions of plans, based
partly on the Goodyear enterprise, and the logical development of natural
resources and advantages of Southern California toward making Los
Angeles the center of air navigation and transportation for America.
The fact that practical business men like Mr. Daum are working on
such plans is a striking illustration of the splendid advances made in
aeronautics during the past five years.
Mr. Daum is manager and director of the Factory Site Company,
is vice president and director of the Sunset Park Land Company, man-
ager of the Industrial Center Corporation, and manager of the Artesian
Land Company. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member
of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is independent in politics and is
affiliated with the Congregational Church. At Atchison, Kansas, June 19,
1906, he married Mary Rose. Their four children are: Elizabeth Rose,
born in 1907; Dorothy Marian, born in 1911 ; William Howard Jr., born
in 1913, and Richard Hampton, born in 1915.
)
Paran Flint Rice. While his interests as a lawyer identify him
with the ablest members of the Los Angeles bar, Mr. Rice is also dis-
tinguished for his scholarly activities, his scientific pursuits, and his
active association with many affairs and organizations outside of his
own profession.
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Mr. Rice was born at Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1859, son
of Thomas and Mary (Dorsey) Rice. Tiie Rice family goes back to the
fifth century in Wales. The name was originally Ap-Rice and was also
spelled Rhys. This branch of the Rice family came to Massachusetts
in 1635. The Edmund Rice Association of Massachusetts holds annual
meetings and has a large membership of the descendants of the original
settler. Thomas Rice was a prominent New York business man and for
about forty-five years was in the wholesale grocery business at Syracuse.
He was born at Ashby, Massachusetts. His wife was a native of Ovid,
New York, and they were married at Geneva, in that state, where she
was reared and educated. Her family was of French origin and was
first settled in Maryland, where the Carrolls and Dorseys for many
years were among the most prominent families of the province and state.
Paran Flint Rice was educated in the public schools of Syracuse,
attended the Phillips-Exeter Ace demy of New Hampshire, Syracuse Uni-
versity, and read law in London, England, and in Los Angeles. He
came to California in 1895, and has the d gree LL. B. from the Uni-
versity of California. He was admitted to the California bar in 1898,
and later to the United States Supreme Court. He has practiced alone
and handled a general clientage until the last fow years, when he has
given much of his time to corporation and probate work and has been
attorney for a number of large estates. Mr. Rice is also chief owner
and president of the Monrovia Daily News, published at Monrovia, Cali-
fornia. He is a director in a number of commercial organizations. He
is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American
Society of International Law, and in politics is a republican.
Mr. Rice is a Psi Upsilon, a member of the University Club, City
Club, and is a Fellow of the Southern California Academy of Sciences,
the National Geographic Society, and has pursued his scientific interests
by extensive travel in Europe and America. Mr. Rice was reared in
the Episcopal Church, but is not a member of any church.
At San Francisco, August 3, 1915, he married Ruth G. Perkins of
Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she was born and educated. They
have one daughter, Mar\' Dorsey Rice, born at San Francisco September
15, 1918.
Byron C. Sutherland, who has achieved a place of special prom-
inence in the dental profession, has been a resident of California for the
past ten years, and came to this state from Boston and vicinity, having
been reared and educated in the heart of New England.
He was born at Palmer, Massachusetts, October 21, 1875, attended
public school there, graduating from high .school in 1893. Doctor
Sutherland is a graduate in dentistry with the degree D. D. S. from the
Boston Dental College. He rec ived his degree with the class of 1899.
This was the last class to graduate before the Boston Dental College
became the Dental Department of Tufts University. Doctor Sutherland
began practice at Ware, Massachusetts, afterwards in Springfield, and
for nine years had a busy practice with an office in South Braintree, a
Boston suburb. He gave up his work there to come to Los Angeles in
1909, and in this city was chief operator for "Parker, the Painless
Dentist" three years. On leavi- g Los Angeles he was located at San
Diego three years, and on returning to Los Angeles formed a partner-
ship with Dr. J. P. Hines in January, 1916. They were associated as
Drs. Hines and Sutherland, Dentists, until April, 1918, at which time
Doctor Suth rland bought out his partner and has since practiced alone.
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with offices at 820 South Broadway. He makes a specialty of bridge
work and the "Anchor Roofless Plate."
Doctor Sutherland was made a Mason at Braintree, Massachusetts,
being affiliated with Delta Lodge, and was its junior deacon when he
left for the West. He also belonged to Pentalpha Chapter of the Royal
Arch Masons at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He has demitted to those
bodies, but has not resumed his affiliation in California. Doctor Suther-
land owns a ranch of a thousand acres of cotton land in the State of
Sonera, Mexico.
October 21, 1905, he married Miss Winifred E. Pike of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. She was born and educated there, and her mother's
ancestry^ runs back in straight line to John and Priscilla Alden. She
is a stepdaughter of Colonel F. S. Howes of San Diego, California.
Colonel Howes served as a captain in the Spanish-American war, and
during the World war was in the Intelligence Department and was re-
turned as a colonel of the Coast Artillery. Doctor and Mrs. Sutherland
have two children, J. Winston, who was born in Braintree, Massachu-
setts, and is attending the Westlake School for Boys, and Bettina, born
at Los Angeles. The family reside at Verdugo Canyon, Glendale. Doctor
Sutherland is licensed to practice dentistry in Massachusetts, California,
Porto Rico and Mexico. ,
THOM.A.S Clayton Murphy. The life of the late Thomas Clayton
Murphy, brief in years, was wrought largely in good works in the hearts
of his fellowmen. In this he was true to his descent from his illustrious
grandfather, the world renowned temperance advocate, Francis Murphy.
Mr. Murphy while on the platform traveled from coast to coast, but
most of his active life was spent in Los Angeles.
He was born at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1885. His death occurred
at Los Angeles April 5, 1919, as a result of influenza-pneumonia.
His gr?ndfather, Francis Alurphy, was born in Ireland April 24,
1836. As a youth he came to America and for a number of years led
a happy, convivial existence, gradually sinking into the class of irre-
trievable drunkards. About 1870, while living at Portland, Maine,
through the influence of a gospel meeting, he abruptly reformed, aban-
doned dissipation entirely, and in a few years rose to rank as a national
leader in temperance, and in many ways was one of the most con-
spicuously successful temperance workers and evangelists the world has
known. Though he died in 1907, his name today is spoken with a deeper
reverence perhaps than is paid to any other man of his class. He was
the originator of the famous Murphy Blue Ribbon Pledge: "With
malice toward none, with charity for all. I, the undersigned, do pledge
my word and honor, God helping me, to abstain from all intoxicating
liquors as a beverage, and that I will by all honorable means encourage
others to do the same." The signers to this pledge, it is said, numbered
twelve million. He carried his work to England and Ireland, to Aus-
tralia and New Zealand, and though he had worked unceasingly in the
cause for over thirty years, it was his earnest wish that he might live
to be a hundred years old and keep up his activities to the last. He died
at the home of his daughte'r, Mrs. Wayland Trask, in Los Angeles, June
30, 1907, at the age of seventy-one.
William Murphy, son of Francis and father of Thomas Clayton
Murphy, was in many ways the image of his father both in personal
figure and character and in his chosen work as a temperance orator. He
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was born in Seattle, and his wife, Clara Mackay, represented an old
Southern family.
Thomas Clayton Murphy was a graduate of the University of Wis-
consin. With his brother, Francis Murphy Jr., he toured the entire coun-
try, Thoinas speaking on temperance, while Francis employed his rich
baritone voice in singing Gosi|)el hymns, seldom failing to sing "Face to
Face," a favorite hymn of his grandfather. Incidentally, it should be
mentioned that the famous gospel hymn, "God Be With You 'Til We
Meet Again," was written for Francis Murphy by the Rev. Dr. Rankin.
The young man lectured in all the large cities from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, finally giving a series of lectures at Fresno, Bakersfield and
.San Diego.
Upon retiring from the lecture platform, Thomas Clayton Murphy
took up newspaper work. He edited a couple of columns daily in the
Los Angeles Record under the title, "The Under Groove," filling these
columns largely with little sidelights on the personalities and characters
found in the local court rooms. Besides his work as a newspaper man,
he was appointed judge of the Sunrise Court, where he found a fertile
field for his temperance philanthropy. He also entered commercial lines,
becoming president of the Stop Fire Company, being associated with the
late Timothy J- Spellacy.
Thomas C. Murphy married Miss Florence Caswell, daughter of
Cornelius Caswell. They were married April 26, 1909. Cornelia Cas-
well for many years lived in California. Florence Caswell is a native
daughter of California, and was educated in the Girls" Collegiate School,
a fashionable institution of Los Angeles. She and her husband attended
the Christ Church. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were very happy in their
work and life, and were the parents of two children, Thomas, born in
1910, and Jane, born in 1916.
Judge Willi.a.m Atwell Cheney. Many of the finest associations
and memories of the Los Angeles bar past and present gather around the
dignified figure of Judge Cheney. His first honors in law and politics
were given him in California over forty years ago. He has been a
resident of Los Angeles since 1882, for six years divided the work of the
Superior Court of Los Angeles County, most of the time with one other
judge, and for twenty-six years was chief counsel for the Los Angeles
Gas and Electric Corporation.
Judge Cheney, who retired from active practice on account of his
health in June, 1917, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, February 18,
1848, son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha (Whitney) Cheney. Mem-
bers of the Cheney and Whitner families have long been prominent in
the history of Massachusetts. Judge Cheney attended public schools
and academies in Boston, was educated for the ministry, and to restore
his health, seriously impaired by hard work in school, spent a year at
sea on a trading vessel. He followed the vocation of preaching only a
short time.
He first came to California in 1867, remaining about three \'ears.
He became a permanent Californian in 1875, first locating in San Fran-
cisco, then in Plumas County. He was admitted to the bar there in
1877, and the following year was elected county judge of Plumas County,
an office he filled until 1880. When the old constitution was changed,
in 1880, he was elected to the State Senate, serving three sessions, being
a member of the Judiciary Committee, having in charge the revision of
the legal codes. He also engaged in the practice of law at Sacramento.
Before his term as state senator expired Judge Cheney removed to
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Los Angeles, in 1882, and was soon busy with a large private practice
and took upon himself many responsibilities in the republican party.
Soon after coming to Los Angeles he was elected a member of the Board
of Education. His law partner at that time was Lieutenant Governor
John Mansfield. He was elected to the Superior bench of Los Angeles
County in 1884, and he and Judge Anson Brunson were the only judges
of that court at the time, and the first republican to have been elected to
the Los Angeles County bench up to that time. Judge Cheney handled
all the work of the criminal department of the court and gave himself
to the duties of the office with indefatigable energy and with such sure
and careful administration that his name will always stand high in the
judicial annals of the county.
Upon retiring from the bench, in 1891, Judge Cheney was chosen
chief counsel for the Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corporation, and filed
that ofifice until he retired from practice. Along with other duties, he
was lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Southern Cali-
fornia Law School from 1904 to 1912. Judge Cheney has been one of
the notable orators in the republican party of California for many years,
and when not on the bench his services were freely given to the cam-
paign conmiittees. He is a Unitarian, a member of the University Club,
is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Southern California, and
has found new strength and recreation by frequent changes of occupa-
tion rather than complete rest. He has always been a student, is a lover
of painting, sculpture and science, has contributed to many professional
periodicals, and is also author of a book entitled "Can We Be Sure of
Mortality," published in 1911. Out of his long experience, Judge Cheney
has formulated a particular philosophy applying to the lawyer. He be-
lieves that a young man aspiring to success in the law should "know
everything about some things and something about everything."
In 1871 Judge Cheney married Annie E. Skinner of New Haven,
Connecticut. She was a woman of unusual intellect and the author of a
volume of poems entitled "Dreams of Hellas and Other Poems," pub-
lished in 1917. She died at her home, 1913 Ocean View Avenue, on
April 26, 1916. Judge Cheney has one son, Han'ey D. Cheney, a well-
known Los Angeles lawyer.
Oswald Bartlett. From the age of eleven until he was about
eighteen, Oswald Bartlett lived in the Castaic district of California. His
home was a ranch in the mountains. While the Ridge Route now makes
that district accessible, at that time it was regarded as almost without
the pale of civilization, being in fact the rendezvous of all the outlaws
and gunmen in that section. For the training of a young man for the
responsibilities of American business, hardly a less promising environ-
ment could be imagined. However, it had its compensating advantages.
It endowed Mr. Bartlett with his unconquerable love of outdoors, and
the solitude, grandeur and rugged wildness of the mountains and incom-
parable hills of California. There was a country school which he and a
brother and sister attended. They made up half of th'e entire number
of pupils. Every day they walked about three miles each way over
rough, rugged mountain hills to the school.
This early chapter in Mr. Bartlett's career is pertinent chiefly by
way of contrast to his busy and fruitful experience in Los Angeles. He
has lived in this city twenty years and in that time his consecutive in-
dustry and insatiable passion for mercantile knowledge brought him to a
position where he is recognized as one of the foremost merchants and
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stone's.
Mr. Bartlett was born at Birmingham, England, February 24, 1882,
son of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Hobbins) Bartlett. His father was
also a native of England, but when a boy came to America, spending
about two years in Norfolk, Virginia, and two years in Hampton, Massa-
chusetts. Later he returned to England, married in 1881, and engaged
in business as a coal merchant. Becoming dissatisfied with the hum-
drum ways of old England, early in 1890 he gave up his business and,
returning to America, settled first at Denver, Colorado, where he became
a merchant, and in 1893 he moved to California to satisfy his desire to
live the life of an agriculturist. His agricultural ventures in the Castaic
district were a failure, owing to the lack 'of water and three or four
consecutive dry seasons.
The successful business man is one who learns how to adapt him-
self to circumstances and solve each day's problems as they come up.
Probably in all his career there was no greater need for this adaptability
than when Mr. Bartlett arrived from the ranch a green country boy and,
without knowledge of city ways, gained his first knowledge of Los
Angeles. Barker Brothers had just moved into their new building on
South Spring Street. YOung Bartlett was then a member of the Sunday
school class in the First Baptist Church, at Sixth and Broadway, his
teacher being Mr. C. H. Barker. Through this acquaintance he secured
the position of elevator boy in the new building. Barker Brothers were
then, as now, the largest furniture store in Los Angeles, having at that
time a pay roll of nearly forty people. Oswald Bartlett ran the elevator
several months, his wages being increased to seven or eight dollars a
week. It supplied the immediate necessity of employment, but had no
future. He next requested work in the drapery workshop, where his
salary was reduced to three dollars a week on account of his lack of
experience. While there he acquired some knowledge of the different
sorts of drapery fabrics, and then made a new move to get into the selling
end of the business. His next position was stock boy and second sales-
man in the drapery department of the Niles Pease Furniture Company,
then located in what is now the Harris & Frank Building, at 443 South
Spring Street. In successive years there were other changes of em,-
ployment, each change being actuated by the broader opportunities appar-
ently presented. He was with W. & J. Sloane of San Francisco as
salesman in the decorative department ; the Eastern Outfitting Company
of Los Angeles as general salesman of furniture, carpets and draperies;
and with the J. M. Hale Company of Los Angeles he acquired his first
experience in buying. His first real executive position was as buyer
of floor coverings and draperies at the Broadway Department Store,
where he remained several years. He left that establishment to take
charge of Bullock's Basement Store. This was the first basement store
established in Los Angeles carrying all lines of merchandise. It was a
merchandising idea then an innovation and now in the experimental
stage, and its thorough success was largely due to Mr. Bartlett's genius.
After about a year with Bullock's, he accepted another opportunity to
go with the Hamburger store as buyer for floor covering, furniture,
drapery and picture departments, a line in which he was specially inter-
ested. With that house he remained about ten years.
While these successive changes are briefly told, during those years
of service Mr. Bartlett had achieved the knowledge, the executive sense
and the broad and detailed comprehension which are the chief qualifica-
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tions of a successful merchant. On this foundation his subsequent
progress seems merely a matter of course. February 1, 1917, he availed
himself of the opportunity for still further advancement, when he became
merchandise manager for the N. B. Blackstone Company. Not long
afterward he succeeded to the position of president and general manager,
and as such he is directing the service of a store known nationally and
internationally.
Notwithstanding all his various duties and responsibilities, Mr. Bart-
lett has been a close observer of social and political conditions affecting
the welfare of his city and nation, particularly in recent years. He is
one of the stanch business men to whom Americanism is something more
than a mere word. He conceives of it as a set of principles, involving
not only sound patriotism, but sound political economy, instruction in
which should begin in the grammar grades of public schools, so that the
next generation at least will be properly trained and as a direct result
of training and education be competent to solve the problems which now
cause social and industrial unrest. Mr. Bartlett is a republican and a
firm believer that all municipal politics should be strictly non-partisan.
He is an active member of the Commercial Federation of California, a
member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, The Brentwood Country Club
and a thirty-second degree Mason, being affiliated with Hollywood Lodge
No. 355, F. and A. M., and Los Angeles Consiston,' No. 3, and a Shriner.
He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Hollywood.
December 31, 1904, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Louise Ecker-
mau, daughter of Alexander and Rosa (Bullock) Eckerman of Grand
Rapids. Michigan. Alexander earned all the honors due to a brave and
faithful soldier and veteran of our Civil war. He was in fourteen
battles and numerous skirmishes, including the battle of the Wilderness,
.\ntietam, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania and Petersburg, in the last
engagement his younger brother being shot down by his side. For a
period of fifty-eight years until the time of his death he was engaged in
the drug business in Michigan. Mr. and Mr. Bartlett have two children,
Oswald Jr., bom in 1909, and Elizabeth Louise, born in 1917.
Moses H. Sherman. To have been at some time an employe,
subordinate or co-worker of General M. H. Sherman is an experience
that many prominent Californians never neglect to mention with a degree
of pride and satisfaction, thereby claiming credit not only to themselves,
but unconsciously expressing a high tribute to this pioneer and master
railway builder of Southern California.
The great work General Sherman and his brother-in-law and busi-
ness associate, E. P. Clark, has done in developing the electric transporta-
tion in Southern California need here be only briefly outlined as part of
the personal history of General Sherman.
He was bom at West Rupert, in Bennington County, Vermont, De-
cember 3, 1853, of sturdy New England ancestry. General Sherman's
achievements apparently have been a result of the steady and sturdy de-
velopment of his own powers and experiences. He completed his educa-
tion in the Oswego Normal School, in New York, and was a district
school teacher in New York State. At the age of twenty he made his
first visit to Los Angeles, and soon thereafter went to the sparsely set-
tled territory of Arizona, locating at Prescott, then only a mining town.
There he taught school until 1876, when the Territorial Govemor selected
him, at the age of twenty-three, as a suitable man to represent Arizona
at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. After discharging his
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duties at Philadelphia, he started to return to the Pacific Coast. The
voyage was made by the Isthmus of Panama^ the steamship being wrecked
near Cuba, and altogether was a trying adventure for all concerned. At
that time General Sherman was accompanied by his sister, who later
became the wife of Mr. E. P. Clark. On his return to Arizona, young
Sherman was appointed by the then Governor, John C. Fremont, super-
intendent of public instruction. In that office he had the first crucial
test of his abilities as an organizer. Arizona then had no public school
system and young Sherman had to solve the many difficult problems of
providing school facilities for the scattered population of the territory.
After his appointive term, the office became elective, and he was chosen
as his own successor, being the only republican elected to a territorial
office. During that term, at the request of the Legislature, he rewrote
the school laws of the territory, and those laws, unanimously adopted,
remained the standard for over thirty years.
His next public task after leaving the office of superintendent of
schools came in the shape of an appointment by the Governor to the
office of adjutant-general of the territory. He was reappointed by the
succeeding Governor, and during his two terms accomplished for the
National Guard or Militia what he had done previously for the public
school system.
In the meantime he had entered business, having established, in 1884,
at the age of thirty-one, the Valley Bank of Phoenix, Arizona, and serv-
ing as its first president. Later this became the largest bank of Arizona.
He also gained his first experience in railroad building in Arizona, build-
ing the Phoenix Railway in 1884. He retained the ownership of that
line and in 1910 extended it to Glendale, Arizona, to connect with the
Santa Fe system.
It was during a visit to Los Angeles in 1889 that the big oppor-
tunity of his lifetime was presented to General Sherman. The city at
that time had in operation a costly cable tramway system, built by a
Chicago syndicate. The system was frequently paralyzed as a result of
winter rains washing sand into the cable slots, and there was no end of
dissatisfaction on the part of the public. While General Sherman had
spent most of his years in the Southwest, he had kept in touch with
modern scientific progress, and had followed with interest the first experi-
ments in the use of electricity as a motive power for driving street cars.
Electric traction, however, at that time was still in an experimental stage,
though in two or three Eastern cities its possibilities had been demon-
strated. General Sherman determined that a most promising field igr
electric traction was open in Los Angeles. He enlisted the services of
his brother-in-law, Mr. E. P. Clark, in raising capital and securing a
franchise, and together they built the first tracks of the Los Angeles
Railway, and soon afterwards the first electric street cars were put in
operation. General Sherman became president of the system, with Mr.
Clark vice president and general manager. They absorbed the cable
railway and from their initial success went on to larger projects, includ-
ing the organization of the Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway.
All this property was subsecpiently sold to H. E. Huntington. General
Sherman and Mr. Clark then turned their enterprise to another field,
organizing the Los Angeles Pacific Railway and building lines to Holly-
wood, Santa Monica and eventually covering all the territory between
Los Angeles and Santa Monica Bay. This system was sold to E. H.
Harriman, and became the nucleus of the present great Harriman trac-
tion holdings in Southern California. General Sherman is still a director
in this system.
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This is a mere outline of General Sherman's activities in Southern
California. It would be difficult to estimate the tremendous influence he
has exercised over many lines of development which are now essential
features of modern Los Angeles and surrounding territory. He is also
a banker, being president and director of the First National Bank of
Miland, vice president and director of the First National Bank of Cal-
exico, vice president and director of the First Nlational Bank of Van-
Nuys, vice president and director of the State Bank of Owensmouth,
director of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles,
president of the M. H. Sherman Investment Company, and also a director
in many other corporations in Cahfornia and Arizona, and is an extensive
property owner. He is a member of the California Club, Jonathan Club,
Country Club and other social and business organizations at Los Angeles
and elsewhere.
General Sherman married, in 1885, Harriet E. Pratt. Her father,
R. H. Pratt, was one of the distinguished builders of the Central Pacific
Railway. They have three children, Robert, Hazeltine and Lucy.
Charles Frederick Joseph Winsel has been a Californian since
1887. In former years he was a landscape gardener whose skill and
taste were in the service of the Southern Pacific Railway Company
and were responsible for the adornment of many of the station grounds
of that road in California. Mr. Winsel is founder and is senior member
of the Winsel-Gibbs Seed Company, one of the leading firms of the
state handling seeds, nursery stock and other supplies for the farm
and garden. This establishment is located at 211 South Main Street,
and the nurserj' is at Glendale.
Mr. Winsel was born at Brussells, Belgium, June 4, 1869. His
parents were Charles Isidore and Josephine (Riems) Winsel, both native
Belgians. His mother was born in 1830 during the Belgium Revolu-
tion and died at Ghent in 1914. The father was born in September,
1823, and died at Brussels, August 28, 1872. In early life he was an
officer in the engineering department of the Belgium army, later trans-
ferred to the government administration of railways in Belgium. Of
six children, two daughters and four sons, all are living except the
youngest whose name was Adolph.
Charles Frederick Joseph Winsel is the only member of the family
in America.- He received his early education in Brussels, and was
an honor student of the University of Ghent, where he graduated in
1887. He had specialized and won distinction in horticultural study
and practice at the University. At the time of his graduation he was
awarded a prize in competitive examination, this honor conferring
upon him the privilege of a free trip to America and return, with prom-
ise of a post in the Belgium Government. He came to America, land-
ing at Philadelphia in 1887, and was so impressed by the opportunities
and advantages of the new world that he never went back to his native
land. From Philadelphia he went to Cincinnati, to New Orleans, to
Chicago, to California, and after visiting San Francisco located in Los
Angeles.
For seven years Mr. Winsel was in the employ of the Southern Paci-
fic Railway Company as their landscape gardener. This work required
much travel, over all the California lines of the company. Eighteen
years ago' Mr. Winsel began his present business in the block where he
is now located. His first associate was Louis LeGrande, superintendent
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of city parks at the time William Workman was mayor of Los Angeles.
, Mr. Winsel assisted LeGrande in laying out the city parks of Los Angeles.
The Winsel-Gibbs Seed Company is a firm of the highest standing and
reputation, and is member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
and the Los Angeles Trade Association.
While with the Southern Pacific during the Spanish American war
Mr. Winsel was a member of Cavalry Troop D at Los Angeles, and
enlisted for service in the war. On July 20, 1916, he was made vice
consul for Belgium in Los Angeles, and has retained that post of respon-
sibility and honor ever since. Throughout the duration of the war he
was president of the Allies Committee, made up of consular and other
representatives of the allied governments in Southern California. A
native Belgian, a representative business man of California, Mr. Win-
sel very appropriately became the focus of the many lines of influence
radiating from every household and home in California for the relief
of the oppressed Belgian people. The value of the work he did was fit-
tingly recognized during the visit of King Albert of Belgium to Cali-
fornia. On July 21, 1919, the king personally conferred upon Mr.
Winsel the degree of Chevalier de L'Ordre de Leopold II. At the
same time the I3elgian queen personally decoratd Mrs. Winsel with the
medal of Queen Elizabeth in recognition of her services to Belgium.
In 1897, at Oakland. California, Mr. Winsel married Miss Bertha
Ott, a native California daughter. Her uncle was the late Moses East-
man, who founded the big firm of the Oakland Paving Company. Her
father and mother, now deceased, came to Oakland from the east and
later lived in Los Angeles. Mrs. Winsel is a member of the Serbian
Relief Committee and was on the original Belgium Committee. They
have three daughters, Elsie, Laura and Charlotte, all natives of Los
Angeles. The younger daughters are now attending high school at
Glendale. Elise is the wife of James Thomas. Mr. Thomas was born
in Los Angeles, where he now resides, and he was in training in the Field
Artillery when the war closed.
William E. Ransom. The untimely death of William E. Ransom
was a distinct loss to the world of art. Mr. Ransom, who left a very
large collection of original paintings, foreign and domestic, was for
twenty years a resident of Los Angeles, and died at his home in this city,
at 1722 Fourth avenue, October 17, 1919.
Mr. Ransom was a man of many gifts, and had been successful in
business before he took up art collecting. He was born at Rochester,
New York, February 14, 1856. In his veins was the blood of some of
the old Norse Vikings. Early in the sixteen hundreds four Ransom
brothers came to America, and from these four brothers are descended
practically all the extensive family of Ransoms now found on the Amer-
ican continent. Ex-Senator Matt Ransom was one of his near relatives,
and a cousin was Ex-Surrogate Judge Ransoin o* New York state.
William E. Ransom was a son of Adonijah and Alice Ransom, who
in 1859 moved to Cleveland, the city in which William E. Ransom ac-
quired his education and began his early business career. He was a
graduate of the Cleveland High School, and also took a law course.
When only twelve years of age he invented and constructed a miniature
steam engine, which was exhibited at the Ohio State Fair and attracted
much attention and interesting comment on account of the youth of the
inventor. His early business career at Cleveland was in the lake trans-
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portation industry. He owned several boats in the traffic of the Great
Lakes. He was also in real estate, and his business in that line was a
factor in the growth and development of the city of Cleveland. For
some five years before entering art work Mr. Ransom was engaged in
handling etchings, photogravures, steel engravings and other fine prints.
In 1888 Mr. Ransom removed to New York City, and there laid the
foundation for his art business, which later made him internationally
known as a critic and collector. He first opened an art store on the site
of the present Flatiron Building, and continued in business in New York
until 1900. He made yearly trips to Europe, collecting famous pictures,
and establishing close personal friendships with artists and collectors. In
1900 Mr. Ransom removed to Los Angeles, where he continued in the
art business. He took a deep personal interest in establishing and de-
veloping a high-class art in Los Angeles, and was widely known for his
fight against art frauds. As an importer, he brought to this coimtry
many famous works now found in the Yerkes. Havermeyers, Henry E.
Huntington, Widner and other exhibits. The business founded and con-
ducted for many years by Mr. Ransom is now continued by his two sons,
Adrian C. and Don E. Ransom.
One of his close friends among European artists was Count Vic-
toria Guaccimanni, who at the time of the death of Mr. Ransom was
engaged in a strenuous race with threatening blindness to finish a picture
at Mr. Ransom's order. Other European friends of Mr. Ransom were
Tambourina, once court painter to the King of Italy ; Verestschagen, the
famous Russian painter of war scenes; Robert Hillingsford, the Eng-
lishman, and John Frazier of England, while in America he numbered
among his personal friends Thomas Moran, Harrison Fisher, Kenyon
Cox, 'Ralph Blakelock, Stanford White, Charles F. McKim, Paul de
I.ongpre, Ranger, Bruce Crane and James G. Tyler.
In 1877 William E. Ransom married Miss Minnie Sterne, their two
children being Adrian C. and Don E. Adrian C, jvho was born in Cleve-
land in 1881, was educated in the common schools in Hiram College of
Ohio, and in a university college at Toronto, Canada. He has been
closely associated with his father's business for a number of years, and
accompanied his father on the last trip to Europe. He was privileged to
meet many of the prominent artists and spent several days in the old
castle home of Count Guaccimanni. While in Venice he saved the life
of an Italian baby about to drown in the Grand Canal, and for that act
was offered a medal by^ the Italian government.
Don E. Ransom was educated in the common and high schools of
Los Angeles, took a business course, and served as night deputy sheriff
in Los Angeles under Sheriffs Hamill and Cline. He was at Yuma,
Arizona, one year, serving as a motorcycle officer under Sheriff "Mell'"
Greenleaf. During the late war he was in the service twenty-two months
as a sergeant and was with Colonel Gambrill in the Quartermaster's De-
partment at Los Angeles. He is now associated with his brother in
caring for the business established by their father.
Obadiah Truax Barker, who was the founder of the great mer-
cantile business of Los Angeles n<-iw conducted as Barker Brothers, be-
came a resident of the city forty years ago, and here on the Pacific
Coast and in his later years achieved a business success even surpass-
ing former experiences in Colorado and in Indiana, in which states the
first thirty years of his life were passed.
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Mr. Barker was of Anglo Saxon ancestry, and it is said that the
family name was derived from the occupation of the original progenitor,
that of barking trees. During the colonial period and before the Revo-
lutionary War some of the Barkers came to America and settled in North
Carolina and the Virginias. The pioneer spirit carried a later genera-
tion, represented by Thomas Barker, over the mountains into Kentucky,
where he was a pioneer and where he achieved business prominence
and public esteem. One of his sons was named Obadiah Truax, who
Vv'as born in Kentucky and as a young man went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
learning the blacksmith's trade, and subsequently became a pioneer in
an unsettled region of Indiana, where in addition to his blacksmith shop
he conducted a mercantile enterprise. He married Miss Mary Stalker,
daughter of Jonathan Stalker, a native of North Carolina, and an early
settler in Kentucky. These parents had a family of twelve children, six
sons and six daughters, all of whom grew up, and the last survivor was
the Los Angeles merchant, Obadiah Truax Barker.
Obadiah Truax Barker was born at Scotland, Indiana, March 10,
1828, and as a youth had none of those advantages and opportunities
that are now considered the essentials of a liberal education and ap-
propriate training for business or the professions. His character was
molded by his rugged environment, but his education was confined to the
advantages of the district schools in Greene county, and his ambition
prompted him to secure a higher education. He prepared for college
and entered and was a student of the State University of Indiana at
Bloomington until the opportunity came to get into business. This oppor-
tunity was in the form of an offer to work as clerk at eleven dollars a
month in a store formerly owned by his father. The salary was unim-
portant but the eighteen months that followed gave him a fundamental
knowledge of merchandising. At the end of that time he formed a part-
nership with a local physician, Dr. J. A. Dagley, each supplying two
hundred and fifty dollars, and with that modest capital they launched
a store enterprise, and were successfully associated for five years. Mr.
Barker then became sole proprietor, and continued several years longer.
He then moved his business to Owensburg, Indiana, and successive years
brought him rapid increase in his business as a merchant and also the
esteem and confidence of the people of Greene county, who were more
than willing to impress him with the responsibilities of public ofifice.
He was elected on the republican ticket and served four years as auditor
of Greene county.
In 1872, about the time he left ofifice, Mr. Barker moved with his
family to Colorado Springs, Colorado, then a small mining community.
On Tejon street he established the first general merchandise business in
the town, and while his resident patrons at the beginning were not
numerous, he had the advantage of trade with the Indians and traders.
As the town rapidly developed his business also grew, and though he was
there only eight years he left a permanent impress upon the constructive
upbuilding of the city, and was one of the men who guided Colorado
Springs through its formative period. In 1880 he sold his Colorado
business, and at once came to Los Angeles.
His first enterprise in this city was in the furniture and carpet
business under the firm name of Barker and Mueller, the latter being
the father of Oscar Mueller, a prominent Los Angeles attorney. Their
location was at 113 North Spring street. It was soon discovered that
the store was outside the business district, and it was then moved to
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the vicinity of the Pico House, at that time the leading hotel of Los
Angeles. In the meantime Mr. Barker had bought out his partner, and
he continued business as O. T. Barker & Sons. That was the modest
nucleus and foundation of the great business today known as Barker
Brothers, whose magnificent store has drawn patrons from the most
exclusive walks of life. After 1887 Mr. O. T. Barker was practically
retired from business, though his name was continued in the style
of the firm until 1898, in which year the title became Barker Brothers.
The new firm moved to the Van Nuys Building, at 420-424 South
Spring Street. This building had been designed especially for their use,
and the store extended from Spring Street through to South Main
Street, and used several stories of the building. November 1, 1909,
Barker Brothers moved to their present location on South Broadway,
where the store utilizes half a block of ground and a six-story building
and basement. This is now the very center of the retail shopping dis-
trict and as a department store it is regarded as the largest enterprise
of its kind in Southern California. Every department is ingeniously
arranged to exhibit the stock to the best advantage, and is carefully
looked after by expert department managers.
On retiring from business Mr. O. T. Barker removed to Pasadena
and made his home at 1449 Fair Oaks Avenue. He died at his home
in that city in July, 1912. O. T. Barker was not only a great merchant,
but in the words of Judge Lucien Shaw of the Supreme Court of Cali-
fornia, "was a man of the most unflinching honesty and courage and
was possessed of a singularly clear mind and sound judgment, and the
world is better for his life and example and can ill spare his loss."
In 1854 Mr. Barker married Miss Nancy Arreen Record, also a na-
tive of .Scotland, Indiana, and daughter of Josiah Record. He was still
a struggling young business man when they were married, and much of
the inspiration for his subsequent achievement was derived from his
wife and companion. Their lives ran side by side in mutual happiness
and esteem for over half a century, enabling them to celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary. Both were active members of the First
Baptist Church of Pasadena, and were identified with many philanthropic
and charitable enterprises. Mrs. Barker survived her husband five years,
dying at her home in Pasadena, January 31, 1917. In the words of a
resolution adopted by the Los Angeles County Pioneers, "She had a
sweet, kindly, lovable nature, helpful, hopeful, cheerful and unfailingly
generous and good. Her patient and tireless activities in many diversi-
fied spheres of humanitarian endeavor endeared her too all who feel
compassion for human suffering." She had done much for the promo-
tion of religious work, and was one of the liberal contributors to the
building of the new church of the Tremont Baptist Society.
Mr. and Mrs. Barker became the parents of six children. Only
two sons are now living, Charles H. and William A., who comprise the
firm of Barker Brothers. Another son, O. J. Barker, was connected
with the business for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Barker during
their later years had that satisfaction which comes not only from work
well done on their part, but from the increasing proofs of their son's
ability as business men and citizens.
B.\RKER Brothers. Through successive years and the united labors
of members of the Barker family and many capable subordinates the
business of Barker Brothers in furniture and home furnishings has
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come to represent a magnificent organization for the successful selection
and buying of wares and the sale and distribution of them to a public
by no means confined to southern California. The firm are retailers,
manufacturers, wholesalers, importers and exporters, possessing an
enormous buying power and with expert services capable of reaching
out to the furthest ends of the earth and procuring and assembling in
the great store at Los Angeles the commodities to satisfy the most dis-
criminating tastes.
With such an organization and with a retail store of such dimen-
sions and facilities as that on South Broadway, Los Angeles, the task
of service to the patronage having direct access to Los Angeles is
comparatively simple. But a number of years ago Barker Brothers
began reaching out for remote trade districts and as a result of experi-
ence have instituted one of the most original plans for mail order service
yet devised. Mail order sales are based not only upon the familiar
descriptive catalog, l)Ut involve the use of a supplementary selection of
exact photographic reproductions of articles desired by the individual
purchaser in eli'ect similar to a plan long in vogue of submitting samples
of cloth, wall paper or other wares that permit the test of sampling,
which is obviously out of the question with furniture, so the photog-
raphic halftone is, as experience has proved, a satisfactory approxima-
tion of personal service involving a staff of buyers or shoppers, main-
tained by Barker Brothers, one of whom assumes all responsibility for
selecting the goods of an individual order, no matter how many de-
partments and different classes of commodities the order calls for.
It has been upon methods such as these, always based upon the
old bed-rock principles of honest merchandising, that Barker Brothers
has earned its remarkable position among the mercantile houses of
the west.
As a response to the need for economic adjustment following in
the train of the great war. Barker Brothers was one of the first large
firms on the Pacific Coast to attempt to solve the problems of economic
unrest by the institution of an advanced plan of industrial democracy,
"involving the best features of the older co-operative and profit sharing
plan with the new principle of sharing the responsibilities of manage-
ment with the body of employes. The plan as adopted by Barker Broth-
ers is closely modeled upon the "John Leitch" system, to which a great
deal of publicity has been given in recent months and which has been
adopted with more or less modification by scores of extensive concerns
in the east.
Since the beginning of 1920 the government of Barker Brothers,
involving their thirteen hundred employes, has been subject to what is
known as Barker Brothers Congress, the plan of which is modeled largely
upon the national system of government, involving a president, cabinet,
senate aijd legislature. The chief features of the plan and the underly-
ing purpose are well expressed in the preamble to the constitution:
"It is the desire of the members of Barker Brothers Organization,
which includes every employe, that a plan be formulated whereby every-
body connected with Barker Brothers shall have a part through their
representatives in matters in which they are interested as employes,
which shall improve the general conduct and welfare of our stores.
factories, warehouses and all activities operated by Barker Brothers.
"It is suggested that a permanent organization to be known as
P.arker Brothers Congress shall be created — to consist of a designated
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number of representatives of the employes and representatives of the
management ; both sides to have equal representation.
"The emplo3'es' representatives shall be elected by the employes and the
management's representatives shall be appointed by the president of
the company from company officials, department heads, foremen and
sub- foremen ; therefore, in order to provide a simple, democratic and
effective medium for the promotion of the mutual interest and well
being of all the members of Barker Brothers' Organization, the man-
agement and the employes of Barker Brothers, Inc., do hereby create
the Barker Brothers Congress."
Students of modern problems in our social and industrial life will
follow closely the results of the Barker Brothers' Congress. On the
financial side the program provides for a fifty-fifty division of increased
profits, taking the business of the year 1919 as a base, equally between
the management and the body of employes. However, the main inter-
est in the plan will be the answer to the question, how far the harmony
of working relations and increased efficiency on the part of all con-
cerned will be promoted by the system of representation in which each
employe has an individual voice in the collective management.
Cii.Mii-KS HoK.\CE Barker, one of the sons of the late (). T, Barker,
early became identified with his father's business as a merchant at Los
Angeles, and for many years has been an active executive in the firm
of Barker Brothers, of which he is now vice president.
He was born at Owensburg, Indiana, June 27, 1860, lived in In-
diana and attended public schools to the age of twelve, and for the next
eight years lived with the family at Colorado Springs, where he attended
high school. His higher education was acquired in William Jewell
College at Liberty, Missouri, and the University of California at Berke-
ley. In addition to his executive post with Barker Brothers he was a
director of the McClellan Manufacturing Company. At one time he
was also interested in the cultivation of a sugar plantation in Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
Mr. Barken- js a member of the First Baptist Church of Pasadena,
the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and City Club of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County
Pioneers.
Mr. Barker married in 1883 Nellie P., daughter of A. W. and De-
borah Palmer, from which union were born two sons, Clarence A. and
Erie P., both of whom are in positions of trust in the Barker Brothers'
organization. The junior Barkers are all members of the Athletic Club.
They constitute the third generation in the firm and are making good.
WiLLi.\M Alfred Barker, who is president of Barker Brothers, In-
corporated, has been one of the most conspicuous business men and mer-
chants on the Pacific Coast for thirty years. Many of the progressive
features which distinguish the house of Barker Brothers, as described
elsewhere, are the direct product of Mr. Barker's study and experience.
He was born at Owensburg, Indiana, March 11, 1864, son of the
late O. T. Barker, of Los Angeles. Most of his education was acquired
in the public schools of Colorado, and in 1880 he was appointed from that
state to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He had nearly
completed his studies when in 1883 Congress because of a surplus of
naval officers limited the classes to ten men only, and Mr. Barker was
one of the cadets who resigned.
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He then joined the family at Los Angeles, and for a time worked
in his father's furniture business and later became one of the part-
ners of O. T. Barker & Sons. In 1887 he became a general salesman
for the Milwaukee Furniture Company, and in 1890 organized the firm
of Bailey & Barker Brothers. After a year, when Bailey retired, the
business was continued as Barker Brothers, W. A. Barker being secre-
tary and treasurer until 1906.
One of the most ambitious undertakings on the Pacific Coast, and
one that attracted much attention in the public press for several years,
was the Pacific Purchasing Company, organized by W. A. Barker in
1906. This company owned seven wholesale and retail furniture stores,
and its business attained such tremendous volume that in 1908 it came
under the consideration of the Federal authorities, who at that time
were engaged in one of the periodic campaigns to enforce anti-trust leg-
islation. In the trial of the Pacific Plirchasing Company is one of the
chapters in the history of anti-trust agitation, and when the Federal
courts decided that the business involved a monopoly in restraint of trade,
Mr. Barker, then president, bowed to the decree of the court and dis-
solved the company.
Since that time Mr. Barker has given his almost undivided atten-
tion to the business of Barker Brothers, Incorporated, and since 1910
has been its president. He is also a director of the Merchants National
Bank and is financially interested in mining and oil enterprises. Prior
to 1907 Mr. Barker was also an interested and public spirited figure
in local politics, though primarily as a means of promoting the progress
of his city.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, California and Los Angeles Athletic and Los
Angeles Country Clubs. August 19, 1887, he married Pauline Burman.
They have one son, Lawrence.
O. J. B.\RKER, who died in 1907. was a son of the pioneer Los
Angeles merchant O. T. Barker, and for many years one of the active
partners in the firm of Barker Brothers.
He was the oldest of the sons of O'. T. Barker, was born in In-
diana, spent his early life in that state and in Colorado, and came to
Los Angeles with the family in October, 1880. He was a member of
the old firm of O. T. Barker & Sons, later of Barker Brothers, and he
supplied much of the genius of this organization in extending its pur-
chasing organization. For several years he was also associated with
his brothers, C. H. and W. A. Barker, in the Pacific Purchasing Com-
pany, and at that time he was credited with personal responsibihty for
the largest purchasing power exercised in the furniture business in the
L'uited States.
For many years Mr. Barker and family lived in Pasadena, and
at his death he was survived by his widow, and a daughter, IMiss Arieen
Barker.
Je.\nie Culbertson M.xcpherson. whose personal part, scenarios
and direction has contributed to make her one of the foremost figures
in movie art, was born in Boston. Her father was a Highland Scot,
descended from the Red Macphersons, the giant race of Scotland. Her
grandfather brought his entire household, including servants, tutors and
his own Presbyterian minister, from Scotland. Jeanie Macpherson's
earliest recollections are of sitting on a high stool and answering her
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catechism. Her mother's name was E. Claire Tomlinson, daughter of S.
J. Tomlinson, who at one time owned and published the Detroit Evening
Journal. This is a branch of the Tomlinsons of Tomlinson Hall, Eng-
land. Her mother was also of French and Spanish extraction, a direct
descendant of the "Man of the Iron Mask." Miss Macpherson's uncle
is G. Ashley Tomlinson of Duluth, Minnesota, and Washington, who
during the war was a dollar-a-year man and served under -Mr. McAdoo
as director general of the country's inland waterways.
Jeanie Macpherson received her education entirely in Paris at the
school for girls of Mile. Defacques. Mark Twain's daughter was the
first American girl educated there, and she was the second. She was
typically American, a ringleader among her playmates, and through her
leadership the sport of hoop rolling was abandoned in favor of more
strenuous games. Miss Macpherson finished her education in the noted
Kenwood Institute, Chicago.
From both sides of the house she inherited literary talent, and as a
girl wrote little French stories and poems. Her first attraction was for
the legitimate stage and she appeared in stage productions with Forbes-
Robertson and under Henr}' B. Harris in Edgar Selwyn's tour with
"Strongheart." She also played the Spanish part of Tita with James T.
Powers in "Havana," which ran for a year on Broadway.
When the cinema first furnished a real medium for theatrical tal-
ents. Miss Macpherson was strongly impressed by the idea. Hei con-
version she sums up briefly as "I got the movies, they didn't get me."
Her first trial was with D. W. Griffith in the Biograph Company, working
from bits to leads, and played with Mr. Griffith in "Spanish Gypsy,"
"Madame Rex," "Out of the Shadows" and others. Next she joined
the Edison Company, working under the direction of Oscar Apfel. and
came West to join the Universal and have an opportunity to do sea and
mountain stories. Such scenarios were then hard to find and she began
contriving her own. Gradually other directors naturally began to ask
for stories, and since then her time has been pretty well divided be-
tween writing and directing. One of her earliest screen stories was
"The Tarantula," in which she developed and starred in the unusual
character of a woman whose nature was half spider and half woman. In
Jack London's "Sea Wolf" Miss Macpherson played the leading female
role.
For some time she has been the feature writer and personal assistant
to Cecil B. de Mille, director general of the Famous Players-Lasky Cor-
poration. She was author of the scenarios for Mr. de Mille's production
of "The Cheat," "Joan, the Woman," "The Devil-Stone" and "The
Woman God Forgot," in which Geraldine Farrar starred; "A Romance
of the Redwoods" and "The Little American," starring Mary Pickford ;
also "Old Wives for New," "Don't Change Your Husband" and "Male
and Female."
The nornial expression of Miss Macpherson's life is work and
activity. Giving eighteen hours a day to some task is nothing unusual
for her. She has a slight, girlish figtire, constantly animated, and for
all her nervous energy has a marvelous poise. Her chief recreations
are flving and dancing. She flies a Canadian Curtiss government model
aeroplane, "O. X. 5" motor, and finds her greatest relaxation in the air.
She is the only woman who has ever flown an aeroplane for Lieutenant
Locklear while he was stunting on the wings. "Tell them all," he said,
''that you are the only girl I have ever allowed to touch the 'controls'
while I was stunting."
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She possesses a keen sense of balance and rhythm, faculties exem-
plified in all her work and play, whether dancing, writing or flying. She
is a stockholder in the Mercury Aviation Company. No doubt this con-
tinuous work and experience is responsible for Miss Macpherson's con-
tinued freshness of attitude. She seems to renew her vitality every day,
and unlike so many literary producers, the element of staleness has
marred none of her work.
WiLLi.\ii Dexter Curtis is one of the veteran advertising men of
the Pacific Coast. The Curtis-Newhall Advertising Agency has just
rounded out a quarter of a century of successful work at Los Angeles.
When the tremendous value of advertising as a means of promoting the
resources of California is considered, the individual experience of Mr.
Curtis affords some illuminating historical data.
He established his general advertising agenc}- at Los Angeles in
1895. From the beginning he made his service not only local but national.
So far as known the first advertisement from California that appeared
in a national magazine was a transaction of the Curtis agency. This was
an inconspicuous announcement, aggregating five agate lines in the No-
vember issue of 1896 of the Ladies Home Journal. The next adver-
tisement, ten agate lines, appeared in September, 1897, in the same jour-
nal, being followed by fourteen agate lines in December of the same year.
At the present time there is hardly an issue of leading magazines
and other periodicals but carries much space devoted to California
products or institutions. An interesting index to this class of business
is found in the office records of Mr. Curtis. During 1899 the estimated
eastern national advertising placed by him amounted to fifteen hundred
dollars. The first six months of 1900 it was $12,268.60, and the second
six months of that year $5,644.44, giving a total for the year of $17,-
913.04. In the first six months of 1901 the total was $20,977.99, and for
the second half of that year $11,377.81, or a total of $32,355.80. It is
therefore possible to consider the history of California national ad\iT-
tising as covering a period of a little more than twenty years.
Mr. Curtis has been responsible for much of the original direc-
tion taken by California advertising. Of special interest in this connec-
tion was Mr. Curtis' address before the twentx-eighth annual conven-
tion of the California Fruit Growers' Association on Afay 6, 1903. The
growers represented in the convention expressed grave concern over the
threatened over production of oranges. As a means of equalizing the
demand with production Mr. Curtis suggested a tax of one cent a
box be levied among the producers for advertising purposes, but another
phase of his remarks on the occasion is suggestive of his originality as
an advertising expert. He said : "A special brand is very desirable. It
is not at all unlikely that we shall some day see oranges advertised
under a brand. It remains for some genius to evolve an inexpensive
seal so that each orange as it is wrapped can be rapidly sealed by a
slight hand pressure." "An extensively advertised seal brand orange
that attracts much favorable attention." All of which seemed to an-
ticipate the idea now in evidence in the widely advertised "Sunkist"
oranges and special brands of other California products such as nuts,
lima beans, raisins. While Mr. Curtis did not personally profit from
the suggestion he has the satisfaction of having sown some of the early
advertising seed which has later borne fruit.
Mr. Curtis was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, March 10, 1870,
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and has spent the greater part of his hfe in California. His father,
Joseph Curtis, also a native of Massachusetts, first came to Calif rnia
in 1861, and was a pioneer miner and general merchant in this state.
After his return to Worcester, Massachusetts, he was in the flour and
milling business with William H. Dexter. Joseph Curtis married Delia
Maria Newton. In 1876 he brought his family to California and for
several years was in the piano and organ business at San Jose, and in
1886 moved to Los Angeles. Here in company with C. G. Harrison,
first president of the Title, Insurance & Trust Company, and E. H.
Sweetser, hi laid out The Palms townsite between Los Angeles and
Santa Monica.
William Dexter Curtis acquired his education in public schools
partly in California and partly in Massachusetts, and later received a
special course in the University of Southern California. Among early
experiences he was a grower of deciduous and citrus nursery stock and
also conducted a general merchandise and fire insurance business ^t
The Palms. Then, in 1895, at the age of twenty-five, he established his
general advertising agency at Los Angeles. For a time the business,
was carried on under the name W. D. Curtis, then for a short time as
the Curtis-Harrison Agency, his associate, Mr. Harrison, being a son
of C. G. Harrison. In 1898 Henry W. Newhall associated himself
with Mr. Curtis. The business was incorporated under the name Curtis-
Newhall Company in 1902. Mr. Newhall subsequently sold his interest
to Mr. Curtis and for a time was engaged in the exporting business in
Manila. Later, on his return to the United States, he became interested
in the magazine Modern Priscilla, published in Boston.
Curtis-Ncwhall Company placed the first La Fiesta advertising
which was sent to eastern periodicals in the spring of 1897. The late
Fred K. Rule was president of the La Fiesta Association, and C. S.
Walton, secretary, while C. D. Willard was then secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Curtis early became interested in mail order advertising and
has a number of marked successes to his credit, a notable example be-
ing that of the Cawston Ostrich Farm. Mr. Curtis is said to have
worked two years to convince Mr. Edwin Cawston of the feasibility
of selling ostrich feathers to women through national women's periodicals.
Mr. Cawston made a fortune out of the idea, while Mr. Curtis profited
to- the extent of handling his business, amounting to between thirty-
five thousand dollars and forty thousand dollars a year.
The advertising service maintained by Mr. Curtis at Los Angeles
for a quarter of a century has represented almost every line of business
and practically every known advertising medium. He is mnre than
an advertising expert, and for years has made a thorough study of
business in general. Many prominent Concerns in California have
known him as "a business couns.llor." It was his experience th:it many
firms needed a greater perfection of their organization before embarking
on an advertising campaign, and thus Mr. Curtis became naturally
interested in advising and planning more efficient m?thods for his clients,
and for the past ten years he has carried on this branch of his work as
an independent business. His interests have extended not only to the
formal technique of business, but to the personal element involved, and
his study has gone deeply into the relations existing between capital
and labor. His "Human Element" folders designed to go with pay
checks are being used quite extensively by large corporations. It is
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his sincere conviction based upon many years of experience that the
lack of mutual understanding is usually the chief obstacle to prosperous
and profitable relations between employer and employe and that the
exchange of point of view is the chief factor in bringing about greater
harmony and consequent efficiency.
Mr. Curtis is a republican in politics, a member of the Jonathan
Club, Chamber of Commerce, and Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
ciation of Los Angeles and the First Baptist church.
December 16, 1891, at The Palms, California, he married Mary
L. Rose. Her father, Anderson Rose, a native of Macon County, Mis-
souri, crossed the plains with an ox team in 1852 with, a company of
friends and neighbors. This party was six months on the way, and on
landing in Eldorado County, Mr. Rose engaged in mining. In 1867 he
moved to Los Angeles County, and for many years followed stock rais-
ing and general farming in Santa Monica. He is one of the well remem-
bered pioneers of the county, and his thoroughbred cattle and Norman
•draft horses took first prize at state and county fairs. H. Jevne at one
time contracted for all the butter and cheese made on the Rose fann,
those products being considered the best grade obtainable. In 1869
Anderson Rose married Annie E. Shirley. He was a Mason and be-
longed to the first Masonic Lodge organized at Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have two children: Lucile Rose and Meredith
Anderson Curtis. The daughter is a graduate of Stanford University,
where she also took post-graduate work, and is a member of the Alpha
Omicron Pi and was a member of the various college honor societies.
The son, who attended Stanford University for a year and a half and
^vas a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, is a young man with an in-
teresting army record. He was a member of Company G, 364th In-
fantry, 91st Division, and while in France participated in the battle of
the Argonne.
I
HoYT Post, Jr., a resident of Los Angeles since 1914, is following
his profession of engineering with offices in the Garland Building, be-
ing associated with Allen Sedgwick. Mr. Post for a number of years
was a resident of Detroit, and for a time was connected with the
■engineering department of several large automobile concerns.
He was born October 4, 1885, and his father, Hoyt Post, Sr., was
for many years one of the ablest business men in the city of Detroit.
Hoyt Post, Jr., is in the ninth generation of the family in America.
1. Stephen Post, a native of England, came to America in 1630 and
■settled first at Newton (now Cambridge) in the Massachusetts Bay Col-
■ony, but in 1635 removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and thence to Say-
brook in the New Haven Colony in 1648. He died August 16, 1659.
2. Abraham Post, born at Hartford in 1640. 3. Abraham, born at
Saybrook, Connecticut, June 9, 1669. 4. Abraham, born at Saybrook
in 1691. 5. Roswell, born at Saybrook in 1728. 6. Elias, born at
Saybrook in 1763. 7. Edmond Russell Post, born in Rutland County,
Vermont, in 1808. 8. Hoyt Post, Sr., born at Tinmouth in Rutland
County, Vermont, April 8, 1837.
In the pages of Hollister's History of Connecticut and in "Con-
necticut Men in the Revolution" are found a number of references to
members of the Post family who distinguished themselves in the Colonial
and Revolutionary wars. Stephen Post, who was born in Saybrook in
1664, a son of Abraham above mentioned, was one of the original found-
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ers of the town of Hebron, Connecticut, in 1707. His son Stephen
sen'ed in a Connecticut hne regiment, Captain Hunger ford's Company,
under Colonel McCollem, and was a United States pensioner under the
Act of Congress passed in 1818. General Phillip Sidney Post, who was
born at Florida, Montgomery County, New York, in 1833, was a Briga-
dier General in the Civil War and a member of Congress in 1886. Jed-
dediah and John H. Post owned what was known as "the Glastonbury
Anchor Iron Works" which they sold to George Pratt in 1848. These
works were first established prior to the Revolution and cast the cannon
and made the anchors for the armed vessels of Long Island Sound, two
of which were commanded by Nathan Post. Nathan Post commanded
the armed brig "Martial" in 1776, carrying a crew' of eighty-five men,
also the armed sloop "Revenge" in 1779, which he sunk in the Penobscot
River to avoid capture by the British. Nathan, Jr., was with Captain
Huntington in the Lexington Alarms of 1775, and with Captain Jones in
1777. Nathan, Jr., and Reuben Post were on the muster roll of the
Guilford Company in the expedition against Ticonderoga.
Hoyt Post, Sr., who was a member of the Detroit bar for forty
years and died at Detroit in February, 1912, was educated in the public
schools of Rochester, New York, at Dayton, Ohio, and Detroit, attended
the academy at Birmingham, Michigan, and received his A. B. degree
in 1861, and his LL. B. degree in 1863 from the University of Michigan.
He was a member of the Memorial Committee of the Alumni of the
University to collect funds for the erection of a Memorial Hall on the
campus. He began the practice of law at Detroit in 1863 and on Jan-
uary. 1, 1867, formed a partnership with Albert H. Wilkinson, which
was succeeded by the firm of Wilkinson, Post & Oxtoby. He was re-
porter of the Supreme Court of Michigan from 1872 to 1878, a member
of the Michigan Fish Commission from 1889 to 1895 and held many other-
posts of honor. He achieved prominence in business and financial
affairs, being president of the Peninsular Electric Light Company, St.
.Clair Edison Company, Grosse Point Water Works, East Side Electric
Company, Delray Terminal Railroad Company, was vice president of
the ]\Iichigan Mutual Life Insurance Company and of the Detroit Steel
Cooperage Company, and was a director and member of the Executive
Committee of the Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company, a
director of the Michigan Savings Bank, Plymouth United Savings Bank,
Edison Illuminating Company, Washtenaw Light and Power Company,
and many others. He was a member of the Wayne Club, University
Club, Old Club, Bankers Club, was president of the Eta Association of
the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity and was president of the Detroit
Bar Library Association and the New England Society.
February 7, 1867, he married Miss Helen Deborah Hudson, daugh-
ter of George W. Hudson, of Detroit. She is still living and makes
her home with her son in Los Angeles. She was the mother of four
daughters and two sons : Mrs. John P. Robinson, of Detroit, who died
in 1911 ; Mrs. John C. Collins, of Detroit, who died in 1896: Mrs. W. B.
Cady, of Detroit, wife of a member of the prominent law firm of War-
ren, Cady, Ladd & Hill of Detroit : Elon, who died in 1893 ; Mrs. Walter
D. Steele, of Chicago, wife of the president and general manager of the
Benjamin Manufacturing Company ; and Hoyt, Jr., the youngest of the
family.
Hoyt Post, Jr., is a graduate of the Detroit University School with
the class of 1904, spent two years in the University of Michigan in the
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engineering course, and for about eleven years during vacations and al
other times was connected with the Edison Company of Detroit, of
which his father was one of the founders and organizers. Later he went
with the Paige Motor Car Company of Detroit, when it was first started
and had only twelve employes. For about a year and a half he was
connected with this company as a mechanical engineer, and when he
resigned was assistant head tester. Later he engaged in the retail auto-
mobile business, handling the American and the Krit cars for a year
and a half. His business was known as the Krit Motor Sales Company,
located on Woodward avenue in Detroit.
In the summer of 1912, after his father's death, Mr. Post and his
mother paid a visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco. On his return
to Detroit he entered the real estate business with the firm of Warren
Brown & Company, being connected with the department which had
charge of several large buildings and also in the rental department. He
remained with this firm until he came to Los Angeles in 1914.
On January 2, 1914, Mr. Post had married at Los Angeles Miss
Margaret Wilson. She is a native daughter of Southern California
and it was her desire to be again in the land of sunshine and roses which
caused Mr. Post to make his permanent residence in Los Angeles. For
a time he was engaged in the real estate business in this city, but since
1915 has developed a large practice in engineering. He is treasurer of
the Avawatz Salt & Gypsum Company of Los Angeles.
Mr. Post is a republican, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fra-
ternity. University Club, Brentwood Country Club, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution of the State of California, Los Angeles Chapter, and
the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Mrs. Post, who died October IS, 1918, of influenza pneumonia, was
a daughter of John W. and Jennie (Haskell) Wilson, both prominent
in Los Angeles, her father being examiner of the Los Angeles Clear-
ing House. Mrs. Post was born at Redlands, California, graduated
from the high school there, and finished her education in Leland Stan-
ford University. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority of
Stanford. Mr. Post has one daughter, born July 21, 1916, and she is
being tenderly cared for by her grandmother, Mrs. Post, Sr. Mr. Post
resides on St. Andrews Place, a home which he bought in 1917.
Daniel O'Connell McCarthy. With proper regard to his ex-
periences and achievement, it is permitted to call the late Daniel O'Con-
nell McCarthy one of the most useful citizens of California. He was
much more than a pioneer and early settler, founder of the first morning
newspaper, and a picturescjue personality. He came of fighting stock, and
all his fighting was done on the side of constructive ideals and plans that
resulted in many benefits of his home state, perhaps not properly appre-
ciated at the present day.
Daniel O'Connell McCarthy was born at Raleigh, North CaroHna,
August 24, 1830, a son of Maurice McCarthy. His ancestry goes back
to remote antiquity, to the time when the Spanish stock was blended
with the native Celts of Ireland. He was descended from a line of
Irish kings of Munster. One of the family, McCormick McCarthy, in
1476 owned Blarney Castle. One of the early kings of Munster was
Carthack, which later was changed to McCarthy. Another king was
Justin, in 1093, and- later on in modern times we find Justin McCarthy,
who was a second cousin of Daniel O'Connell McCarthy. The late Mr.
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McCarthy was also descended through his mother (Bridget O'Hea)
from two noble and illustrious houses in th; Province of Munster, in the
County of Cork. Their magnificent estate, together with those of the
McCarthy family, were all confiscated in the rage of religious persecu-
tion, and to the lineal descendants nothing remained except their n-'me
and rJigion. The coat of arms of the O'Hea family and that of the
McCarthy family were united in one combined design, now in the pois-
session of the families. The motto is : "To the strong and faithful noth-
ing is difficult."
Mr. McCarthy's parents were married in Ireland, where their first
child was born. When the family came to America they settled in west-
ern North Carolina, and subsequently removed to Columbus, Miss s'ippi,
where both parents died when the oldest child was only fourteen years
old. The loss seemed irreparable, for not only was the father an honor-
able and useful citizen, devoted to his family, but the mother was a
woman of rare culture and refinement, of noble character and of great
personal beauty.
The children, with names and dates of birth, are briefly noted as
follows: Maurice, born in Ireland in 1820; "Yankee" James, born in
America in 1822, and died in infancy; James Barry McCarthy, 1824;
Michael O'Hea, 1826; Mary Barry, 1828; Daniel O'Connell, 1830;
Catherine, 1832 ; John Harvey, 1834, and Jeremiah Crowley, 1835.
Daniel O'Connell McCarthy was educated in the common schools
of Columbus, Mississippi. At the age of fourteen he was appointed
commissary clerk by Captain William Barksdale, and went with his com-
mander to Mexico at the time of the war between the United iitates
and Mexico. In 1848 he was stationed on General Taylor's line. At
the conclusion of peace he located at San Antonio, Texas, engaged in
mercantile business and remained in that city until 1850. In Septem-
ber, 1850, he organized a company of young men, and as captam, inter-
preter and commissary general conducted them overland to California,
and immediately went to the mining districts of Tuolumne County. He
spent two years in placer mining, and then engaged in stock raising and
other lines of business until 1858. Selling out his interests, he became
a merchant in the town of Sonora and was also extensively engaged in
i[uartz mining.
Sonora, the town where he was established in business, was then
the center for that considerable body of Southerners and pro-slavery peo-
ple who employed every expedient to range California on the side of the
South. A Southerner himself by birth and training, Mr. McCarthy had
none of the characteristic attitude of those people toward our political
institutions. He had no interest in slavery and the Union of the Stites
was one of the first articles in his creed and faith. As an appropriate
means of expressing this faith in the Union cause, he was left to estab-
lish in 1860 a newspaper at Sonora. the title of which pioneer journal
was The American Flag. It was founded entirely upon the basis and
spirit of personal patriotism and unselfish love of country, and its pub-
lication was continued under circumstances of persecution and injustice.
In the end The American Flag became one of the chief instruments for
the winning of California to the side of the Union. It is well recognized
by historical authorities that when the people of California voted to
enter the Union as a free state, the cause of the Union was fortified as
it had been by no previous event for twenty years. The American Flag
was not only the fir.st morning newspaper in the state, but was the first
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radical Union newspaper, and during the Civil war was considered a
deciding factor in the refusal of California to secede with the Southern
states. It was also the first advocate of woman's suffrage in the state.
Ohe of the first acts of the "Union State Convention," meeting at
Sacramento in 1863, and composed of six hundred representatives from
all parts of the state, was to pass a resolution, amid enthusiastic cheer-
ing, endorsing The American Flag as a newspaper true, energetic and
reliable for its advocacy of the great measures and principles of the
Union party in this state, and that we do hereby commend it to the con-
fidence and support of all loyal men. At the same time there were forty
two other papers in the state supporting the Union party.
Soon afterward, at the written request of a large number of lead-
ing Union men of the state, Mr. McCarthy moved his paper to San
Francisco and established it as a daily journal. Even by its bitter
enemies The American Flag was considered to be the most brilliant and
fearless journal ever published on this coast. ^
Mr. McCarthy was nominated for state printer, a very important and
lucrative office, but owing to the combined opposition of jealous news-
papers, who placed two independent republican candidates in the field,
he was defeated, though nmning five thousand votes ahead of his ticket.
While publisher in San Francisco, the owner of The American
Flag started one of the first newspaper agitations in the United States.
An effort was being made to pass the Pacific Contract Law. Corrup-
tion was charged against the State Legislature. This resulted in the
arrest of Mr. McCarthy. He was later released and feted by hundreds
of supporters. It was also The American Flag that first published the
news of the assassination of Lincoln in California.
Soon after giving up his journalistic career, Mr. McCarthy removed
to San Diego in 1870, investing in real estate. He also became inter-
ested in the wonderful Burrow silver mining district of New Mexico,
where he located several claims and organized a company, acquiring tim-
ber properties, water privileges and laying out towns and railway routes.
He was one of the first to locate silver mines in Silver City, New Mexico.
In the meantime the man he had left in charge of his interests at San
Diego had mismanaged them, so that his presence for several years was
required in restoring order to California affairs. In the meantime a
large part of his rights and acquisitions in New Mexico were lost. Dur-
ing those years he proved a leader and man of vision in promoting a
number of large undertakings, and while he experienced numerous vicis-
situdes, the failures were due chiefly to the inevitable inability of one
man to thoroughly control and direct issues involving widely separated
groups and responsibilities.
At San Diego he served as president of the Board of Trustees (at
that time practically mayor of the city) and was instrumental in build-
ing the first railroad into that city. Later he was engaged in mining in
Lower California, and in 1882 removed from San Diego to his ranch,
Siempreviva, and became interested in stock raising and farming. While
president of Mount Tecarte Land and Water Company at San Diego in
1892. he went to the City of Mexico and obtained a concession from
President Diaz to bring a portion of the water across Mexican territory.
A tribute to the far-sighted genius of Mr. McCarthy is found in an edi-
torial recently published in The San Diego Union and quoted herewith
for the value it has in supplementing this brief biography: "H. N.
Savage, hydraulic engineer, and three newspaper men stood on- the site
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of the Barrett dam last Wednesday afternoon, discussing the work which
will be necessary in the erection of this last link in the construction of
San Diego's water system. Mr. Savage was relating the history of the
dam site. 'You speak of vision in great engineering projects,' he said,
'of the romance and imagination behind it all, and you have mentioned
the Panama Canal, the mighty Assouan, the Roosevelt and the Shoshone ;
but right where we stand is as fine an example of that sort of thing as I
know. Here, in the early eighties, a man visioned this Barrett dam ; he
even started the work with that bit of stone parapet down there. This
man's vision saw the future need of San Diego; he had supreme con-
fidence in the potentialities of the little city, then no more than a village;
he knew that eventually a great seaport metropolis would cover the
shores of San Diego Bay ; and he hoped to see the realization of what
to others was only a dream.' So the story went on until one of the
newspaper men asked the name of this visionary. 'His name,' said Mr.
Savage, 'was D. O. McCarthy.'
"At that very moment the man who had located and started the
construction of the Barrett dam more than thirty-five years ago was
lying dead in his Los Angeles home. He had passed away while his
name was on the lips of men who were contemplating his dream at the
inception of its full realization.
"The coincidence does not end here. McCarthy's interest in the
Barrett dam site passed from him to E. S. Babcock, and thence to the
control of the city that he had visioned as he worked in that outlet
gorge to a water shed with an area of one hundred thirty square miles.
In the meantime the Morena dam was built by John D. Spreckels, whose
original purpose was to build the first dam of his system at Barrett.
One of the newspaper men in the inspecting group was connected with
the San Diego Union, owned by John D. Spreckles. The San Diego
Union in 1900 absorbed tlie plant of the Morning Call; the Morning Call
had been the San Diego Videttc; D. O. McCarthy established the Vidette
in the fall of 1893. He was the owner of that newspaper when he
dreamed the Barrett dam.
"There are cycles in human aiYairs as in the physical functions of the
natural order ; and it is complete in this instance. The legacy of D. O.
McCarthy's vision has passed from dream to dream through devious
ways until it came back io him by the impulse of his own desire — on
his deathbed. The Barrett dam will be built by other hands than those
which laid its foundation ; but those hands are guided by the same vision
that inspired the purpose of the man who saw it first. Within the area
of that vision lies three hundred forty-seven square miles of watershed,
all converging to the Lower Otay reservoir, and when the Barrett dam
is finished, the city that D. O. McCarthy visioned will have a water
storage capacity of 48,550,000,000 gallons, 16,000,000,000 gallons of
which will be stored behind the mighty wall of the Barrett dam.
"It is the men with vision who build empires and move the world.
Dreams come true for those who know how to dream."
Mr. McCarthy lived at Los Angeles from 1901, and until a few
years before his death was engaged in the real estate business. He was
a republican, and it is said that he never missed voting after California
became a state. He voted for Lincoln, and during the Blaine campaign
of 1884 it is said that he rode fifty miles on horseback to cast his ballot.
December 1, 1909, he was admitted to life membership in the Archaeo-
logical Institute of America at Washington. Mr. McCarthy was elected
668 LOS ANGELES
an honorary member of the Burbank Society. The monumental work
entitled "Luther Burbank, his Methods and Discoveries and their Prac-
tical Appliance," contains on the page following the title : "Dedicated to
Daniel O. McCarthy, Honorary Member of the Luth:r Burbank Society."
During the Civil war a coasin of Mr. McCarthy, Major General
Barry, served on General Sherman's Staff. A brother of Mr. McCarthy
on the other hand was in the Confederate army, Major Maurice Mc-
Carthy. Mary Barry McCarthy, a sister of Mr. McCarthy, came from
Holly Springs, Mississippi, to visit her brother and his wife in Sonora,
Tuolumne County. While here she met and was married to Colonel
B. F. Moore, an uncle of Mrs. Daniel McCarthy, and one of the great
criminal lawyers of California, a framer of the State Constitution. Major
Maurice McCarthy and his sister Mrs. Katherine McCarthy Hill are
given credit for originating the American holiday, Decoration or Memo-
rial Day. Mrs. Hill, at Columbus, Mississippi, had begun decorating
graves of southern soldiers who had fallen in the war, and later, on the
first Memorial Day after the war, her brother Major McCathy suggested
that they do the same for northern boys. Their action attracted wide
attention, and later a society was form d which set aside a part'cular day
to perform the ceremony and eventually the institution spread until it
became a national holiday. This incident inspired Judge Francis Miles
Finch to write the beautiful poem "The Blue and the Gray." As to who
and what city first suggested and did decorate both southern and north-
ern graves was a question at one time involving a lively controversy. A
strenuous claim to the honor wag laid by Columbus, Georgia, but after
careful investigation it was proved that the custom originated in the
kindly offices of Major McCarthy and his sister Mrs. Hill, as just noted.
Major Maurice McCarthy has a daughter Katherine McCarthy Cham-
berlin, a resident of Los Angeles.
At San Francisco, December 16, 1857, Mr. McCarthy married Aman-
da Anderson, a native of Mobile, Alabama, daughter of Mathew and
Lucinda (Moore) Anderson, and of an old colonial southern family.
Her family home was in a suburb to Mobile. The Andersons were of
Scotch extraction. Mrs. McCarthy when a girl of about sixteen came
with her parents from the South by way of the Isthmus of Panama.
Thence the steamer, the old Brother Jonathan, an old time sidewheeler,
carried them to San Francisco. The boat became delayed and was
many days over due when it sailed into the Golden Gate of San Fran-
cisco, and the surrounding hills were covered with crowds to greet the
vessel and its passengers, almost given up for lost. Thus Mrs. Mc-
Carthy, too, was a California pioneer.
Mrs. McCarthy died December 31, 1911, while Mr. McCarthy passed
away after three days' illness on August 13, 1919. He was a man won-
derfully preserved for all his years and experiences, was erect in car-
riage and in appearance many years younger than he really was. Mr.
and Mrs. McCarthy had twelve children, only two of whom are now
living: John Harvey McCarthy, a real estate dealer of Los Angeles,
and Mary Barry McCarthy of Los Angeles. Mr. McCarthy possessed
a wonderful personality. His was a lovable character, a sweet and gentle
nature, fond of children and loved by them as well as by men of note.
He was the soul of generosity and observed the strictest honesty in all
his dealings.
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Llewellyn A. Banks, who for a number of years has been a
dominant factor in thj citrus fruit industry of Cahforn'a, has had almost
a lifelong experience in the fruit business, and was born in a notable
fruit producing section of Lake Erie in northern Ohio.
His birth occurred on Catawba Island, August 15, 1870, son of
William L. and Laura Ann (Moore) Banks. His father's mother was
of a family tracing ancestry direct from a passenger of the original
Mayflower. Llewellyn A. Banks attended grammar and high school,
graduating from the latter at sixteen and then going to Cleveland and
serving three years as a traveling salesman for Reynolds & Williams,
commission merchants. He then became a traveling representative for
his brother, W. A. Banks, who was a receiver and distributor of green
and dried fruits under the name W. A. Banks Company. In 1903
Llewellyn bought a half interest ,in th^ business and became its presi-
dent and manager. The firm enjoyed enviable prosperity and high
standing among the fruit commission houses of northern Ohio. In
1907 they contracted in advance for a tremendous lot of fruit at high
prices. Wh.n the goods were delivered the panic of that year had
intervened, and the firm was unable to meet its obligations. After this
catastrophe, which is not infrequent among fruit dealers, Mr. Banks,
in the spring of 1909 came to Los Angeles and established the Pacific
Coast Fruit Auction Company, for the purpose of buying and selling
citrus fruits for cash in carload lots. Mr. Banks put in some busy
months organizing all the leading independent citrus fruit packers and
shippers of California, and managed the business profitably until the
big frost of 1913, when most of the packers and growers became dis-
couraged and severed their allegiance. Mr. Banks then went to work
to build up another organization, known as the Citrus Growers Cash
Association, operating along similar lines. Mr. Banks is sole owner of
the business and now has perfected an organization for buying and
selling citrus fruits at private sales and paying the growers cash for
the fruit.
He is also an independent packer, owning and operating five citrus
packing houses, located at Pacoima, Arroyo Park, North Pomona, Red-
lands and Orange. He owns eight orange groves, comprising one hun-
dred and fifty acres located in Redlands, Arlington Heights and in the
beautiful Moreno Valley, and is regarded as one of the big factors in
the citrus industry of the state.
Mr. Banks is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los
Angeles Country Club, the Wilshire Country Club, and is a republican.
At Danbury, Connecticut, October 26, 1892, he married Florence E.
Banks. Their daughter, Geraldyn, a student in the Hollywood High
School, is a young girl of abounding health and a hundred per cent,
athlete.
Thomas J. McCoy, M. D. The late Dr. MaCoy, who died sud-
denly September 30, 1919, at the age of sixty-two, was one of the
oldest and most widely known specialists in Los Angeles. He was
also one of the first general physicians to limit their practice in this
city, and for a number of years was professor of eye diseases at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia.
Dr. McCoy was born on a farm in Warren county, Ohio, and his
people have been American born for generations back. He was edu-
670 LOS ANGELES
cated in and around Cincinnati and graduated from the Louisville Col-
lege of Medicine. He practiced in Cincinnati until he came to Los
Angeles in 1888. For a time he lived at Fourth and Broadway and also
on the site of the north annex of the old City Hall. For about five
years he was in general practice and then limited his work to the eye.
He and Dr. Albert C. Rogers formed a partnership and were the first
physicians to limit their work to special lines. Dr. McCoy went to
Europe for study and research four different years, and made it a rule
to attend hospitals and clinics in New York and Philadelphia every two
years. He and Mrs. McCoy made a tour around the world and en
route stopped at Calcutta to see the then famous specialist Major Smith
operate for cataract. Major Smith was the originator of a new method
for cataract operations, and Dr. McCoy eagerly availed himself of the
opportunity to visit the Major's hospital. Major Smith allowed Dr.
McCoy the privilege of operating on five patients one morning.
His brother, Dr. George McCoy, came into the partnership in
1910, at which time the firm name became Drs. Rogers and McCoy
Brotliers. Dr. George W. McCoy is still prominent in the profession at
Los Angeles.
One of the close friends of Dr. McCoy wrote the following as a
tribute to him : "One of the most widely known men in Southern Cali-
fornia, remarkable for his maintenance of youthful vigor and looks
fifteen years beyond his time, ever a dispenser of cheer and a looker
upon the brighter side, a searcher for the best in his fellow men, with
boundless charity for the frailities of humanity, his sudden, untimely
passing comes as a shocking personal loss to thousands who in the last
thirty-two years consulted his skill with respect to his ability and en-
during affection for his sunny nature. Of him it might truly be said
the world was better for his having lived in it.
"A pioneer specialist in southwestern medicine, Dr. McCoy soon
after his arrival, fresh from the most intensive preparation possible in
those days, established a partnership with Dr. Albert C. Rogers, limiting
the firm's practice to the eye and ear, nose and throat. Dr. Rogers wa§
probably the first physician in Los Angeles to limit his work. For sev-
eral years Dr. McCoy had been retired from active participation in the
operating and heavier parts of the ever-growing practice. Dr. Rogers,
too, had virtually retired, yet both veterans retained their interest and
enthusiasm for the practice of medicine to the last. Dr. McCoy de-
voted particular attention to the eye and was ranked among the ablest
oculists of the country."
Besides being incumbent of the chair of ophthalmology at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons he had charge of the eye work at the
County Hospital, giving one morning every week to those duties. He
was a member of all the medical societies and was president of the eye
section of the Doctors' Club. He was one of the early members of the
Jonathan Club and Chamber of Commerce. Dr. McCoy was a nature
and home lover. He adorned his attractive residence by the plant-
ing of trees and many flowering plants and cared more for his home
than for club life.
June 16, 1911, Dr. McCoy married Miss Lillian Tate, a native of
Iowa. Her people came to California in 1888. She is of old Revolu-
tionary stock. Her family lived on Belmont Hill. Mrs. McCoy re-
members when, the pioneer electric street car line operated on Second
and Hill. Mrs. McCoy and one son survive Dr. McCoy.
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Mrs. McCoy was the first woman architect in Los Angeles. She
practiced for ten years and planned between six and seven hundred
houses, and built nearly all the homes in her neighborhood on Norton
Street, including the attractive McCoy place. She is a graduate of the
State Normal School and was a teacher of drawing and also took a
n)anual training course. Her father was a contractor, and she came
by her technical talents naturally. She opened her own studio in
the O. T. Johnson Building, then in the center of the city.
John C. Hiatt, son of Joel and Anna (Cooper) Hiatt, was born at
Cadiz, Henry County, Indiana, on March 26, 1840.
In 1861 he enlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
one of the regiments of the famous "Iron Brigade," and with his regi-
ment took part in nearly all of the principal battles fought by the Arniy
of the Potomac from Second Bull Run to the Battle of the Wilderness ;
he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, captured at the North Anna
River, and taken to Libby Prison; from there he was transferred to
the Andersonville Prison. He, with Boston Corbett and others, dug the
first well in Andersonville Prison, and was there when Providence
Sprinrr broke out. He \vas in Andersonville Prison three rnonths and
wa,'- then transferred to the prison at Florence, South Carolina, and
from there to Charleston. After seven months in prison he was ex-
changed. 'He was at Ford's Theatre in Washington the night Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated.
He was mustered out of the army in the summer of 1865, and im-
mediately went to Iowa, to which state his father had moved during
the war.
He was married on April 12, 1866, to Esther Macy, at Lynnville,
Jas; er County, Iowa, and to this union one child was born — William
M. Hiatt.
During- his residence in Iowa his principal occupation was that of
a fanner, though for some years he was also interested in the mercan-
tile business. He always took a great interest in politics ; was a mem-
ber of every republican state convention held in Iowa for twenty con-
sec'.nive years ; served for a number of years on the Board of Super-
visors of Jasper County, and on the County School Board. In 1877 he
was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature of Iowa, and
served one term. In 1878 and 1879 he was superintendent of the Iowa
Agricultural College Farm at Ames, Iowa.
In the year 1887 he removed to California and settled at Whittier.
Wi'b his son, he founded the first newspaper published in Whittier, and
became actively engaged in the building of the town and community;
he helped organize the Whittier Cannery, which for a number of vears
furnished labor for many people in that section and a market for fruit;
he also planted and developed many orchards in the community ; was
I rominently identified with the development of oil in that neighborhood;
w:i'- one of the organizers of the Whittier National Bank and served
for many years on its Board of Directors and as chairman of its Loan
Committee ; was Qne of the organizers of the Home Savings Bank of
Whittier ; erected a number of substantial business buildings in the
town, and actively assisted in every public improvement in the com-
munity.
Both he and his wife were birthright members of the Society of
Friends, or Friends' Church, and were always active in church work.
672 LOS ANGELES
They were both active in the organization of the Whittier Academy and
afterwards of Whittier College, and for many years Mr. Hiatt served
as a member of the Board of Truste:s of the latter institution. They
were always liberal in giving both time and money for the support not
only of the cause of education and their church, but for the support of
every undertaking for the up-building of the community in which they
lived.
His wife died May 14, 1911, and he passed away at the residence
of hi? son, near Whittier, August 2, 1914.
William Macy Hiatt, only child of the late John C. and Esther
(Macy) Hiatt, was born at Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa, March 24,
1868. He received his early education in public and privat; schools
in Lynnville. Lynnville High School, and in Penn College at Oskaloosa.
For a time he followed teaching in his native state, and later on taught
on the Island of Jamaica, where his parents were temporarily residing
as missionary superintendents for the Society of Friends. His parents
having moved to California, he joined them at Whittier in 1887. With
hi.s father, he founded the Whittier Graphic, the first newspaper of
Whittier. A year later he started another newspaper at Newberg, Ore-
gon. After selling his newspaper interests in Oregon he returned to
Southern California. :;
In 1892 Mr. Hiatt entered the law offices of the Honorable Henry
C Dillon as a student, and was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme
Court of California on April 4, 1893, and since that time has ben ac-
tively engaged in the practice of law. For a number of years he had
his home and office at Whittier ; he attended to the legal details of the
incorporation of the City of Whittier, and served as its first City Attor-
ney. In 1901 he came to Los Angeles as a member of the legal de-
p.artment of the Title Insurance and Trust Company. He resigned that
position January 1, 1904, since which time he has been engaged in
general practice with offices in Los Angeles. From 1910 to 1914 he was
a member of the firm of Hiatt & Selby, and since 1914 he has main-
tained offices in the W. I. Hollingsworth Building.
He helped organize the Whittier National Bank and the Home
Savings Bank of Whittier, sen'ing as a member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the latter Bank for a number of years. He was identified with
the development of the oil fields of Whittier; he has also been interested
in the planting of orange, lemon and walnut orchards ; and has dealt
in real estate in Pasadena, Los Angeles and other places.
In politics Mr. Hiatt is a republican. He is a member of the Jona-
than Club', Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Automobile Club of Southern
California, the Los Angeles Bar Association and the California Bar
Association. He is also a member of the Friends Church at Whittier.
On August 4, 1903, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, he married Miss Clara
Meredith. Mrs. Hiatt died in June, 1909, at Whittier, the mother of one
son, John Meredith fliatt, who was born in 1905.
On November 10, 1910, Mr. Hiatt married Miss Winifred N. Nau-
erth of Los Angeles. They have one son, William Nauerth Hiatt, who
was born in 1912. J\Ir. Hiatt has an orange and lemon orchard near
Rivera, upon which he resides.
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Charles Kossouth Book came to Los Angeles twenty-two years
ago in 1898. At that time as well as since he enjoyed an enviable repu-
tation among the practical oil experts of America. He was' born and
reared in the atmosphere of the petroleum industry in western Pennsyl-
vania. He came from a family of forceful business executives and as a
young man he began his explorations and observations, operating oil
rigs and drilling all over the hills of western Pennsylvania. He was
prominent in the petroleum industry of California.
Mr. Book, who died after a brief illness of one week, February 4,
1920, was born at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, in September 1851. His
parents were Colonel William and Ann Emery Book. His mother was
related to Lord Harland of England. Colonel William Book held his
rank from service in the Pennsylvania Militia, and he drilled a number
of companies at Newcastle for the Civil War. Grandfather Book was
a Revolutionary soldier. All the brothers of Charles K. Book were in
the Civil War, including Dr. W. P. Book, Captain J. S. Book and
Rear Admiral G. M. Book, the two latter of Los Angeles.
Charles Kossouth Book was but ten when the war began. He wanted
to enlist, but was prevented by his age, but he became drummer and
acquiring a uniform, organized a company of boys. He was known as
"the Drummer Boy," and as a paper remarked, "D'id more than any other
single individual to boost enlistments in Lawrence County."
At thirteen he saved a boy from drowning in the Shenango River.
After finishing his education at Martin Gantz School, Charles K.
Book went into the oil business near Oil City, later operated in the Brad-
ford oil fields, and for a number of years was associated with his brother
Dr. W. P. Book. While engaged in the practical business of drd.ing
wells he made his home at Bradford and Jamestown, New York, for
twenty-two years.
After coming to Los Angeles he acquired interests in oil wells
in the immediate vicinity of the city, including one near the site of the
old French Hospital. He owned the land there, selling it about six
years before his death. He also operated on Kern River, drilling and
bringing in some valuable properties, but had disposed of his interests
there before his death. He also at one time owned interests in the oil
districts of West Virginia.
Mr. Book was a Mason, being affiliated with the various Masonic
bodies at Buffalo and Jamestown, Nev/ York, including the Shrine. For
many years his advice was eagerly sought by corporations and individu-
als in the oil industry. He was a man of broad vision, philanthropic and
liberal, and while achieving success for himself helped others.
October 3, 1877, Mr. Book married Miss Ida L. Tyler. They were
married at Tyler -Hill, Pennsylvania, where she was born, the townsite
being named in honor of her grandfather, Israel Tyler. The Tylers are
a prominent family in that section of Pennsylvania. Her grandfather
was prominent in the lumber business, as a land owner, and at one time
owned an extensive group of saw and planing mills, stores, flom- mills -nd
other commercial enterprises. Much of his time was spent in Phibd"lnhia
and New York. Mrs. Book's father was Moses Tyler, a merchant. Mr.
Book is survived by Mrs. Book and one daughter, Dorothy E. Book.
William E. Hampton has been a resident of California thirty years.
In his home state of Illinois he had a successful record as a merchant
before coming West. In California his energies had a new birth and
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working through a period of years gave the Pacific Coast one of its
largest and most distinctive industries.
Mr. Hampton was born in Illinois, son of William Edward and
Matilda M. (Eastin) Hampton. After a public school education, he
went to work, at the age of seventeen, in a wholesale and retail grocery
house at Charleston, Illinois. Three years later he was appointed travel-
ing auditor and cashier for the commission house of C. P. Troy & Com-
pany of New York. In 1877 he returned to Charleston, Illinois, estab-
lished himself in the dry goods business under the name Ray & Hamp-
ton, and in 1880 acquired the entire establishment and conducted it most
successfully under the name "Hampton's" until 1886. He then retired
and came West, locating in Elsinore Valley, and in 1889 located at San
Francisco.
In that city he originated the industry with which his name is still
vitally connected. In 1890 he built a factory in San Francisco for the
manufacture of patent' non-shrinldng wooden water and mining tanks.
It was his commercial genius applied to a new and important idea and
principle which gave to the world a splendid industry. For two years
he was in business under the name of W. E. Hampton, using a moderate
capital, a small plant, and gradually educating the trade to an apprecia-
tion of his wares. For eleven years the industry was conducted as the
Pacific Tank Company, W. E. Hampton proprietor. In the meantime
he had established branches and agencies throughout the Pacific Coast
states. Later he incorporated as the Pacific Tank Company, with him-
self as president and active manager.
Mr. Hampton came to Los Angeles in 1898, moving his home to
this city and building a large branch factory in Los Angeles.
In 1904 he built a factory at Olympia, Washington, and when it
was destroyed by fire five years later, he built another tank factory and
large factory for the manufacturing of wood stave pipe in Portland, Ore-
gon. Thus four plants came into evidence at Los Angeles, San Francisco
and Portland, and from these wooden tanks and pipe as manufactured
by Mr. Hampton have been shipped in enlarging quantities all over the
world.
In the meantime he has acquired interests in a number of related
industries. In 1900 he bought the controlling interest of the California
Redwood Pipe Company and reorganized it as the National Wood Pipe
Company, and erected large factories in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In 1901 he organized the Pacific Coast Planing Mill in Los Angeles
and built a factor}' and yards covering six acres at Sixth and Mateo
streets, in Los Angeles, for a general lumber and planing mill business.
After the San Francisco fire of 1906, Mr. Hampton bought the stock
and business of the ]\Iercantile Box Company and National Lumber
Company, and has since operated large plants in that city.
In 1909 the Pacific Tank Company and the National Wood Pipe
Company were consolidated as the Pacific Tank and Pipe Company. Mr.
Hampton was president and general manager of this corporation. Also
the Pacific Coast Planing Mill Company, National Tank and Pipe Com-
pany and Mercantile Box Company, and now owner of the stock and is
president and manager of the William E. Hampton Company as a hold-
ing company for all his other interests. He is also a director in the Los
Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, the Continental Pipe Manufacturing
Company of Seattle, Washington ; Pacific Pipe and Supply Company of
Los Angeles, and is president of the Columbus, Newman Club, Factory
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Site Company, Industrial Realty Company and the Tidings Publishing
Company, all of Los Angeles.
His movements for civic advancements have enlisted his time and
co-operation. He served as a member of the Special Harbor Committee
while he was director in the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. He
is Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, a member of the
California, Jonathan Newman, Gamut and Los Angeles Country clubs.
Mr. Hampton married Miss Frances Wilhoit of Charleston, Illinois
Samuel H. Friedlander. While his home for five years was in
Los Angeles, and his death occurred in this city at 357 South Wilton
Place, October 24, 1919, the late Samuel H. Friedlander had a fame as
a theatrical manager that was at least nation wide, and his associations
with artists of music and drama had been continuous for forty years
or more.
Mr. Friedlander, who was seventy-one years of age at the time of
his death, was a native of Gennany, but at the age of three years came
with his parents to America. He began his career as a student of music
and drama as a critic on the Louisville Post and Courier Journal. His
first theater was the Masonic Temple Theater at Louisville, which he
managed in 1880. Later he controlled a circuit of the first popular-
priced theaters, including Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincin-
nati, Louisville, jMinneapoiis and St. Paul. About twenty-five years ago
he located in Portland, O'regon, and from that time until his death was
identified with the theatrical interests of the Pacific Coast. He opened
up the Portland House for Al.Hayman & Company of New York, later
in San Francisco he opened the Baldwin Theater, and subsequently ac-
quired the California and Columbia Theaters, which he conducted suc-
cessfully for several years. While at the Columbia he organized the
Frawley Stock Company, practically every member of which later be-
came a star in the dramatic world. He was also credited with the intro-
duction of Weber & Fields plays in San Francisco, where the greatest
record run of musical productions in the history of the country is re-
corded. About five years ago Mr. Friedlander came to Los Angeles
and for some time was in charge of the Morosco and the Majestic The-
aters. Later, as head of the Friedlander Amusement Company, he
booked performers for all the coast country and also made a specialty
of controlling state right feature films. In his later years he became per-
sonally known to hundreds of actors and actresses in the movie as well
as the legitimate stage. As manager he had directed the routing of at
least a hundred of the greatest stage celebrities of America and England
in his time, beginning with such names as Edwin Booth, Henry Irving
and Joseph Jelf'erson, and including practically every celebrity of the
modern stage. However, he did not confine himself to stars of the
dramatic world, but also such musical stars as Patti, Nielson, Calve,
Nordica, Sembrich and others. Literary celebrities who lectured on tour
under his direction included Mark Twain, George W. Cable, James Whit-
comb Riley, Bill Nye and Robert Ingersoll. He was instrumental in
securing recognition for several dramatic aspirants whose names are
now current in stage history, including Nora Bayes, Blanche Bates,
Eleanor Robeson, Maxine and Gertrude Elliott.
Mr. Friendlander was affiliated with the Elks Lodge at Louisville and
was a life member of that order at Portland, Oregon. At the age of
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twenty-five he married Miss Gussie Fox of Louisville, Kentucky. Three
years later she died, leaving one child, a daughter, Alice, now Mrs.
Emanuel H. Lauer of Los Angeles. Mr. Friedlander never married
again and the lives of father and daughter were very closely associated
and from her he received that solicitous care which made his last years
pleasant and comfortable. In his last illness he was confined to his bed
for six months.
Alle S. Hamilton. While his years were brief, Alle S. Hamilton
filled a notable place in the business and civic community of Los Angeles.
He was born February 19, 1882, in what is now Orange county,
but was then Los Angeles county. His father was an early Calif ornian,
while his grandfather raised the first American flag on the Plaza in
Orange. The grandfather came from Wisconsin, and the family were
here before the famous days of forty-nine. The family conducted a bee
ranch in the San Joaquin valley, and later moved to what is now Orange
county.- They operated a stage line to Silverado.
Alle S. Hamilton was educated in the public schools at Los Angeles.
In 1905 he married Miss Alice Massey, a daughter of Thomas and Mary
Massey. Mr. Massey was engpged in the trucking business in Los An-
geles and died here in 1885. His wife still resides at Sixth and Flower
streets, where her children were bom. Mrs. Hamilton and two sons sur-
vive him, Douglas, born in 1907, now attending a boys' school at Oak-
land, and Thomas, born in 1911.
Mrs. Hamilton is a native Californian, and was born at Sixth and
Flower streets in Los Angeles. Her mother has been a resident of Cali-
fornia more than fifty years. She has told interestingly many charming
reminiscences of early days. Mrs. Hamilton's parents were both born
in Ireland, her father coming to New York at the age of five years and
her mother at eighteen. Her mother lived for a time with an uncle in
St. Louis, and came to Soijthern California by boat from San Francisco
before the days of 'railroads, and lived at Rivera with an uncle.
In 1908 Mr. Hamilton established the Los Angeles Ignition Works,
the first business of the kind in the city. He had no capital, but under-
stood the business, and developed it by tremendous energy and by care-
ful economy made it steadily prosperous. Ten years later, in the midst
of his work and business, he died. January 27, 1918. Mrs. Hamilton
proved a worthy and well qualified successor, and has carried on the
business with even greater success than her husband. Mrs. Hamilton is
a member of the order of the Los Angeles Parlor of the Native Daughters
of the Golden West. Mr. Hamilton was an inventor and had secured a
patent on a motorcycle "cut-out," which has been in use for twelve or
fourteen years. He also perfected a magneto attachment and when this
was completed he had not yet secured the patent and at the present time
Mrs. Flamilton is taking out the necessary papers for it.
Mr. Hamilton was a charter member of La Fiesta Parlor of the Na-
tive Sons of the Golden West, this Parlor subsequently being combined
with th? Ramona Parlor. He was also a member of the Jonathan Club
and was a very active supporter of the Children's Homeless Society. He
was a man of splendid morals and fine character. Mr. Hamilton built
a beautiful home at Eighth and Manhattan, but did not live long to
enjoy it.
Ramona Parlor No. 109 of the Native Sons and Daughters expressed
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resolutions stating that "each member of this Parlor feels a keen sense
of personal loss and the Order of Native Sons has been deprived of an
estimable and valued member." In the official publication of the order
the following comment was made on his passing: "Every Native Son
and Native Daughter in Los Angeles and many throughout the state
will read with sadness of AUe Hamilton's death, for he was loyal to the
Orders and was always a friend to their members. He had, through
his energy, built up a splendid business, and for him and his loved ones,
until this fatal illness laid hold upon him, the future was indeed bright.
While we sorrow at his going from among us, we take consolation from
the knowledge that he lived well his brief life, and that his earthly
suffering is over.
Joseph T. Penton is treasurer, general manager arid director of the
California Metal Enameling Company of Los Angeles. This is one of
the growing and important industries of the Pacific Coast, and its estab-
lishment and growth mark another point scored in the broadening in-
dustrial life of Los Angeles.
The business was started in 1910 at 4807 Huntington Drive. At
first only a small building was occupied, and the output was general
porcelain metal enameling. Six people made up the working force. To-
day there are eighty persons employed, many of them highly skilled
workmen, and the plant at the same location has grown into a large fac-
tory building 90x150 feet. The company now has contracts to furnish
the states of California and Washington with enameled license tags for
automobiles and motorcycles, and they also manufacture all the road
markers for the Southern California Automobile Club, some of these
markers extending as far east as Kansas City, Missouri. A recent de-
velopment is the manufacture of machinery for the canning and fishing
industries. The annual volume of business is valued at about a hundred
thousand dollars. The plant is equipped with the most modern machin-
ery, including three large metal furnaces. The personnel of the com-
pany's executive staff is as follows: F. S. Kenfield, president; Robert
Roodhouse, vice president ; R. B. Ahlswede, secretary, and Joseph T.
Penton, treasurer, general manager and director.
Mr. Penton is a publicity expert by profession. He was born at
Memphis, Tennessee, September 3, 1888, son of Joseph T. and Florence
M. Penton. He was educated in the public schools at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, graduated from high school in 1905, and later for three years was a
student in the Washington and Lee University.
For four years he was identified with the advertising business at
Louisville, and was in the same line of work at Chicago until March L
1918, when he came to Los Angeles to accept the position as general
manager of the California Metal Enameling Company. Mr. Penton is a
member of the Union League Club of Chicago, Pendennis and Tavern
Clubs of Louisville, Kentucky, is a democrat and a member of the Episco-
pal Church. At Chicago, November 1, 1916, he married Miss Ruby
Kenfield. They have one son, Joseph T. Jr., born in 1918.
Paul Ecoff Greer, a well-known member of the Los Angeles bar
in general practice, also a registered patent attorney, was for a number
of years active in industrial affairs in the East, especially in Chicago.
Paul E. Greer was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 18,
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1869. His father, Howard Greer, resides in Los Angeles, a retired busi-
ness man, was born at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1843. He
was educated at Alleghaney College, being a member of the same class as
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, and when the late President McKinley
was a student there.
After attending Yale University, he went into the iron and steel
business at Chicago. He moved to Los Angeles in 1909. At Pittsburgh
Mr. Howard Greer married Aberrilla Ecofif.
Paul E. Greer received his education in the public schools of Chi-
cago, graduating from the Lake View High School in 1887. In 1891
he graduated A. B. from Yale University, and on returning to Chicago
took an active part in managing the family affairs until 1905. Between
1896 and 1899 he also travelled both for pleasure and business through-
out the United States, Europe and Alaska. He did not carry out his
decision to become a lawyer until 1905, when he entered the law depart-
ment of Harvard University, graduating L.L. B. in 1908. After one
year of practice in Boston, he came to Los Angeles, and has been prac-
ticing law ever since. He is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Associa-
tion, the American Bar Association and in politics is a republican.
Mme. Com.an Stanley was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Her
father, Jabez Coman, was a druggist. Her mother, Mary Angela Arn-
old, at the time of her marriage was a medical student and later finished
her course in New York, where she was a practicing physician for
many years and where she originated the formula which later made her
famous, giving up her practice of medicine to follow dermatology ex-
clusively. She had two children, a son, Wallace Coman, and a daugh-
ter, Elberta.
Elberta received her early education in the public schools of La-
Crosse, afterward attending St. Xavier's Academy, a girl's school in
Chicago. She later opened an office in Chicago, following the Coman
method of removing facial blemishes, and for many years the mother
continued the New York office.
Elberta was married in 1886, in Chicago, to H. E. Phillips and is
the mother of two children, H. E. Phillips and Mrs. J. T. Geery, both
of Los Angeles. After the death of Mr. Phillips she was married, July
20, 1910, at Elliance, Nebraska, to Mr. K. Stanley, and came to Los
Angeles to live.
The treatment which was originated by Mrs. Stanley's mother,
known as the Coman Treatment, was the only method of its kind ever
endorsed in the United States Health Report. In the United States
Health Report, published in Washington, August 8, 1900, by the United
States Reporting Company, is an editorial which says : "In all investi-
gations carried on by the medical staff of the United States Health Re-
port the results are obtained without fear or favor and are wholly with-
out bias. The only object is to separate the good from the bad, and in
either case to give the findings of our investigating board widest pub-
licity. On this account we are constantly in receipt of communications
seeking information in regard to all matters pertaining to health, beauty,
hygiene and sanitation; Our report was exhaustive and conclusive
and shows that some methods are faulty and ineffective. The report
also shows that the form of treatment which is most scientific and
beneficial in results and most worthy of public confidence is the one
employed by Mme. Coman, which results in perfect relief to the system.
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removing all impurities from the blood and establishing a healthy con-
dition. It also permanently removes all facial blemishes, such as wrin-
kles, small pox pittings, scars, line marks, freckles and all blemishes of
the face, neck, hands and arms. We give it the unqualified endorse-
ment of the United States Health Board."
Mme. Coman was twice called to Europe, the first time to remove
wrinkles from the beautiful Mme. Martial, the companion of King
George of Greece in 1899. For this operation Mme. Coman received
a thousand dollars and all traveling expenses, besides her expenses in
Paris while she was there. Subsequently she was called to London and
gave the treatment to four ladies. Her patients are the leading Society
and professional women of the country and come from every state in
the Union. Mme. Stanley has enjoyed over a quarter of a century of
successful practice, and for the past eleven years has been in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Stanley's mother died in Los Angeles, July 9, 1914.
Judge William S. H.vrbert. A resident of Pasadena from 1906
until his death on March 24, 1919, the late Judge Harbert had earned
many distinctions as a lawyer, judge, soldier and broad-minded citizen
before coming to California.
He was born at Terre Haute, Indiana, September 17, 1842, son of
Solomon and Amadine ( Watson) Harbert, and was descended from an
old \^irginia family of English ancestry. His father was a native of
Bardstown, Kentucky. Judge Harbert was educated in the public schools
of Terre Haute, in the Franklin College and Wabash College in Indiana,
and had completed his sophomore year in the literary course of the
University of Michigan when in 1862 he volunteered his services to the
Union army. At the first battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he was taken
prisoner, but after two months in Libby prison made his escape. He
w^s breveted captain "for distinguished and meritorious services," and
after receiving his commission served on the stafif of General John Col-
burn, General Benjamin Harrison and Major General W. T. Ward. He
was in the Atlanta campaign, with Sherman's march to the sea, and at
the close of the war he began the study of law in the University of
Indiana, but after a year entered the law department of the University
of Michigan, where he received his degree in 1867.
.Admitted to the Iowa bar, he practiced at Des Moines seven years,
and during that time was assistant United States district attorney and a
member of the law firm of Harbert & Clark. His success as a lawyer
and his undoubted talents called him to a larger professional field, and
in 1874 he removed to Chicago, where he became senior in the law firm
of Harbert & Daly, and later a member of the firm Harbert, Curran &
Harbert, the junior partner being his only son. After the death of his
son, in 1900, Judge Harbert practiced alone until he came to California.
Judge Harbert made no eft'ort to resume his professional work in
California and devoted his time and means to civic and philanthropic
woik. He was actively associated for four months with John H. Braly
in behalf of the cause of suffrage. The women of California owe a
lasting debt to Mr. Braly and also Mr. Harbert in securing the right to
vote. Judge Harbert was also deeply interested in securing an ade-
quate water supply, and gave liberally of his time and wide experience
and judgment to various community projects.
During his life in Chicago he was prominently identified with a
number of philanthropic organizations. One of the most important of
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these and one in which his personal resources were deeply enlisted was
what was known as the "Forward Movement," and for seven years
he was president of its Board of Managers. This was composed of an
association of Chicago men and women united in what might be called
"a spiritual chautauqua," where all religious philosophic and humani-
tarian interests might have a common meeting ground. One important
phase of its work was child welfare, and a large tract of ground on the
east side of Lake Michigan known as "The Forward Movement" was
used for a number of years as a recreation and educational camp for the
poor children of Chicago. Judge Harbert in his religious and political
afililialions was absolutely independent, acting only as conscience dic-
tated. He was a tirm believer in municipal control of public utilities. At
Chicago he assisted in the establishment of the Juvenile Court, the adop-
tion of the indeterminate sentence law, and advocated the placing of a
limitation on the power to grant by will large sums to single individuals.
While ;;ttcnding the Universalist Church he established what was called
the "Study of Civic and Humanitarian Questions Club," and led the
class for a long time.
Judge Harbert found in his wife a companion and sharer in his in-
tellectual tastes and occupations, and also in his charity. On October
18, 1870, he married Elizabeth Morrison Boynton. From 1874 until
1906, when they came to Pasadena, Judge Harbert and family resided
at Evanston, Illinois.
Mrs. Harbert, who survives her honored husband, has for half a
century been a co-worker with the greatest American women of her
time. She was an author before her marriage, and as a lecturer and re-
former is nationally well known. She was l^orn at Crawfordsville, In-
diana, April 13, 1843, daughter of William and Abbey Upton (Sweetser)
Boynton. Her parents were both New Englanders. She was educated
in private schools, attended the Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, and
graduated with honors in 1862 from the Terre Haute Female College.
In later years the Ohio Wesleyan University bestowed upon her the
degree Ph. D. Mrs. Harbert published her first book, "The Golden
Fleece," in 1867, and delivered her first lecture in Crawfordsville in
1869. During her residence at Des Moines she published her second
book, "Out of Her Sphere," and also became actively identified with the
woman>' suffrage movement, being a pioneer in that cause in the state
of Iowa. She gained a notable triumph when she induced the Repul)-
li(.an Platform Committee to allow her to write a specific woman's
plank, which was adopted by the convention.
The most fruitful period of her life began in 1874, when she re-
moved to Evanston, a suburb of Chicago. For eight years she was
editor of "Woman's Kingdom," the woman's department of the old
Inter Ocean. At that time the Chicago Inter Ocean had a tremendous
influence and circulation all over the Middle West and Mrs. Harbert's
name became a household word with the paper's constituency. Mrs.
Harbert for one year was editor of the New Era.
She served as vice president of the Women's Suffrage Association
of Indiana, as president of the Women's Suft'rage Association of Iowa,
and for twelve years was president of the Illinois Woman's Suffrage
Association. She was also a member of the Board of Managers of the
Girls' Industrial School at Evanston. Mrs. Harbert was founder and
for seven years president of the Woman's Club of Evanston, and that
organization, for many years an efficient instrument in the progressive
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liberation of women, owes a lasting debt to her personal inspiration and
her wise leadership.
Mrs. Harbert's first book wa.s a story of the period of the Civil
war. Her second book was a suffrage story. A third book, "Amore,"
is a story along New Thought lines. She has also been composer of
many rongs, both words and music, including a recent one entitled "The
Call to the Colors."
After coming to California, Mrs. Harbert tried in a measure to lay
usirio some of her arduous activities. She is an honorary member of the
Friday Morning Club, the Altadena Club, and has been vice president
of the Woman's Civic League of Pasadena, and vice president of the
Southern California Woman's Press Association.
Probably her deepest desire is to see the establishment of the "World
Unit} League. " which was formed at the World's Parliament of Re-
ligion. Mr:-. Harbert has served as an associate president of the World's
Unity League. She was instrumental in formulating the pledge with
which the leligious extension movement was inaugurated by the Union.
The words of this pledge are: "Recognizing the interdependence and
solidarity of humanity, we wall welcome light from every source, earnestly
desiring to grow in knowledge of truth and the spirit of love and to
manifest the .-aine by helpful service."
F- r all her many outside activities the greatest ideal of Mrs. Har-
liert has bx'an expressed in the word "home," and through her life she
hi-, endeav'pretl to make that word express the deepest and best rela-
tionships and inspiration. She and Judge Harbert had three children :
\rthur Boyn'on Harbert, who died in 1900; Corinne Boynton Harbert,
a;id Boynton Elizabeth. The latter is the wife of Ashley D. Rowe of
Pasadena. Mrs. Rowe, who is a gifted performer on the harp, has three
children, two boys and one girl. Miss Corinne is a graduate of the
.School of Oratory of Northwestern University at Chicago, and for a
number of years gave her services to settlement work in Los Angeles.
The son, Arthur Boynton Harbert, inherited the intellectual gifts
of his parents and supplemented them by an exceptionally alert, interest.
He was a graduate lawyer and. as above noted, for several years prac-
ticed with his father, though his best talents were exemplified in other
directions. He was a contributor to various newspaper and magazines,
particularly along scientific lines. As a young man he devised a method
of taking pictures from kites. He was also a student of aeronautics and
but for his early death he would very probably have done nnich to assist
in the wonderful development the world has witnessed in flight by air.
As a close ob.server by nature, he often said that God had furnished man
perfect models for all ideas, and his vision of a perfect aeroplane was
modeled on the dragon fly. When only twelve years of age he had
recognized the firefly as the only example of cold light. Only recently
the possibilities of this subject are being extensively investigated by
scientists. Young Harbert was one of a club of six boys who called
themselves the "Oven," each pledging himself to original work. That
was an organization of Evanston boys, several of whom are well known
to fame, including Samuel Merwin, author of "The Short Line War,"
"The Whip Hand," "The Road to Frontenac," "Calumet K." Another
is Henry Webster, whose novels and stories are found in every library.
Another was Clarence Dickenson, who wrote the opera, "The Medicine
Man," and is now a prominent organist in New York, Yet another is
now Professor Zimmerman of Yale.
Mr, Harbert loved California, her people and her every interest.
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Eugene Germain. One of the oldest commercial institutions in
Los Angeles is the Germain Seed and Plant Company, whose founder
was the late Eugene Germain. He established his home at Los Angeles
fifty years ago, and was a man of wide and influential relationships with
the city until his death.
He was born in the French part of Switzerland, November 30,
1849. Educated in public schools and the college at Lausanne until
he was twenty, he then came to New York City and after a short time
went west to Los Angeles by way of Panama. His first enterprise in
California was a restaurant, but soon afterward he opened a grocery
store and gradually developed the commission business then known
as the Germain Fruit Company. While it was a general commission
firm, an important feature was the handling of seed, nursery stock,
wines, and the operation of a fruit packing plant at Santa Ana. Eugene
Germain continued as president of the business until 1893. President
Cleveland appointed him United States Consul to Switzerland for a
term of four years, and during his absence the business was left in
charge of a manager. On returning to Los Angeles he sold the wine
department to his brother Edward and the commission business to
Loeb-Fleishman & Compan\-, and thereafter concentrated his attention
upon the seed and nursery features under the name Germain Seed &
Plant Company. In this line he continued active until his death in 1909,
when his son succeeded him.
April 2, 1872, at Los Angeles, Eugene Germain married Caroline
Sievers. They had five children : Edmund, of Brooklyn, New York ;
deceased ; Lillian, wife of C. A. J. Sharman, of Alberta, Canada ; Clare,
at home ; and Marc L.
Eugene Germain was the first .president of the Board of Trade, one
of the first vice-presidents of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
and a director and officer in many other important institutions. He was
a Mason and Odd Fellow, a member of the Jonathan Club, a charter
member of the California Club, and a democrat in politics.
Marc L. Germain, who was born at Los Angeles, August 20, 1882,
attended the local public schools to the age of nine, and during his fath-
er's residence abroad attended the schools at Zurich. Switzerland. He
finished his education in Yale University, graduating in 1904. On re-
turning to Los Angeles he became associated with his father in the
Germain Seed & Plant Company, and as noted above, succeeded him
as president in 1909. Eugene Germain has also been responsible for
much building improvement in Los Angeles. Some of the buildings
erected by him were the Germain Block on Los Angeles street, near
Requena street, a building on Los Angeles between First and Second
streets, another at the northwest corner of Fourth and Los Angeles
streets, the Germain Hotel at Tenth and Hope streets, the Germain build-
ing at 224 South Spring, a large building at the southeast corner of
Twelfth and Main streets, and a building on Main near Second street,
on part of the property on which the Albert Cohn store is now located.
The Germain business was originally located in the J. Kurtz build-
ing at First and Main streets, but in 1899 was moved to 326-330 South
Main street. In 1918 a separation was made between the wholesale and
retail departments, the retail being located at Sixth and Main streets
and the wholesale at the Terminal Market.
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Albert Ernest Edwards, who died at San Francisco while attend-
ing a meeting of the CaHfornia Bankers Association on January 4, 1919,
was president of the First National Bank of Pasadena, and was a man
of that rare character and ability who achieves a lifetime of work before
reaching middle age, and though death came untimely, it found a big
work completed and to his lasting credit.
Mr. Edwards, who had been a resident of Pasadena more than
thirty years, was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, May 6, 1877, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Edwards, who still reside in Pasadena. His father
was an Englishman and came to America when a boy. His fundamental
tastes were social and artistic, and he was a great lover of the violin, but
eventually finding that it interfered with business, he had to give up
music altogether. Mr. Edwards' mother was Edna Ophelia Bryant, a
niece of William Cullen Bryant. The family came to Los Angeles in
1887, when Albert Edwards was ten years of age.
The latter acquired his early education in the public schools of
Pasadena, also attended a business college, and had his first opening in
the banking profession as an office boy with the San Gabriel Valley
Bank at Pasadena, then under the presidency of Mr. Frank Bolt. This
bank building stood at the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado and is well
remembered for its old-fashioned stairway of twenty steps leading from
the street to the main entrance.
Albert E. Edwards was for twenty years connected with the First
National Bank of Pasadena. He entered it as bookkeeper in 1898, and
won successive promotion until in 1916 he was chosen president. While
the welfare and prosperity of this bank was his constant aim and thought
for twenty years, Mr. Edwards enjoyed the position and influence of a
state and even national authority on finance. He was long prominent
in the California Bankers" Association, being elected a member of its
executive council in 1908, and in 1910 chairman of the executive coun-
cil. In 1911 he was elected vice president, and on May 24, 1912, was
chosen president of the State Association. He presided at the annual
Bankers' Association Convention in. 1913 at San Diego, and at that time
declined the nomination as a member of the executive council of the
American Bankers' Association in favor of Mr. Stoddard Jess. At the
Oakland meeting of the State Association in 1914 he was again nom-
inated a member of the executive council of the National Bankers' Asso-
ciation, and beginning in the fall of 1914 served three years in that
capacity. At the time of his death he was regarded as a logical candi-
date for president of the American Bankers' Association.
One of his personal friends was Mr. George M. Reynolds, former
comptroller of the currency and president of the Continental and Com-
mercial National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Reynolds paid the following
tribute to Mr. Edwards : "After testifying to Mr. Edwards' sterling in-
tegritv, courage, broad vision and keen intelligence, I am of the opinion
that his admirable consideration for others, his constancy in being fair
and just with his associates and competitors, and his genial and optimis-
tic nature, constituted his dominating personal characteristics. He was
ambitious to a degree, patient though forceful, was extremely thoughtful
and considerate of others, and with his sunny disposition had the happy
faculty of making friends readily and drawing closer with increasing
endearment the longer the friendship lasted."
Mr. Edwards helped organize the Annandale Golf Club, and served
as its president, director and in other offices. He was a member of the
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California Club of Los Angeles and the Twilight Club of Pasadena.
During the war he gave much of his time to the interests of the govern-
ment, serving as fuel administrator for Pasadena. He was an enthusias-
tic golfer, also an automobile enthusiast, and it was love and esteem, as
well as business leadership, that made him a great force in his com-
munity and st^te.
July 28, 1904, Mr. Edwards married Miss Hazel H. Wheeler at
Pasadena. Her father. Rev. Albert E. Wheeler, was a prominent minis-
ter and for many years served various churches of the state of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Edwards' uncles all became clergymen and represented several
different denominations. One brother, Nathaniel Wheeler, at the time
of his death, was pastor of a church at Escondido, and his widow later
became the wife of Robert J. Burdette. Another uncle, Robert Wheeler,
has for twenty-five years been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
at Omaha. Mrs. Edwards acquired her early education under the per-
sonal direction of her father. She inherits her cultivated literary tastes
and tendencies, and is now doing some clever scenario writing. She has
also made a study of scientific child training. Her two children are
Marian Natalie, born in 1910, and John Wheeler b'dwards. born in 1913.
Alexander Millard Fillmore McCollougii, M. D. Many inter-
ests came to know and appreciate the services of the late Dr. McCollough,
not only as a practicing physician but as a verj- enterprising and original
business man, who left his mark on man)- affairs of Southern California.
He came to Los Angeles about a quarter of a century ago, with a wide
and successful experience as a physician and business man.
Dr. McCollough was born at Malaga. ( )hio, November 26, 1852, and
died at Los Angeles August 19, 1909. His parents were Dr. J. G. and
Margery McCollough. He early determined to follow the same profes-
sion as his father. After getting his public school education he entered
the Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1876, and
was also graduated at Cincinnati, Ohio. For several years he practiced
at Catlin, Illinois. In the early eighties he went to the boom town of
Wichita, Kansas, and was one of the physicians of that city until 1888.
Removing to the Northwest he retired from his profession, and at Ta-
coma, Washington, organized the Union Savings Bank and Trust Com-
pany and served as its president until 1892.
Dr. McCollough came to Los Angeles in 1892, and after several
years of partial retirement went east in 1895, taking post-graduate work
at the New York Polyclinic for six months, intending at that time to
open a hospital at Los Angeles. On returning west he resumed active
practice and was one of the reliable and successful physicians of Los
Angeles until 1904.
In the meantime he had colonized a tract of land known as "The
Rend Colony" in Tehama county, California. In 1894 in Old Mexico
he spent a winter with his wife and son intending to develop a coffee
plantation, but dissatisfaction among his partners caused him to re-
turn to California. In 1905 he extended his capitalistic efforts to Cen-
tral America, purchasing a banana plantation in Costa Rica as repre-
sentative of Mr. Frederick W. Rindge. After that he was identified
with a number of enterprises in Los Angeles and vicinity, including
the California City Land Company, which subdivided the Jacob Rancho
in Kings county. He also laid out the High School addition to Lindsay,
CaHfornia, and was owner of some orange groves in Riverside county.
At the time of his death he was secretary of the Alvarado Oil Company,
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which had leases in the Midway oil held of Kern county, of which he
was an organizer. He was one of the early physicians connected with
the Conservative Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and was
its medical examiner. This company was later consolidated with the
Pacific Mutual of California. Dr. McCollough was a Knight Templar
and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of all the leading
medical societies. He was a republican and a Presbyterian.
April 24, 1879, he married Miss Emma A. McClenathan at Catlin. Illi-
nois. She was the daughter of George E. and Sarah (Penn) Remley
McClenathan. This was one of the old families of Northeastern Illi-
nois, settling near Chicago when there were only three thousand people
in that city. Dr. McCollough and \^ife had two children, Vernon C.
and Vernita. The latter lives in Los Angeles with her widowed mother
and is one of the city's well known and talented musicians.
Vernon C. McCollough in a brief lifetime compressed many activities
sufficient to give his name an honored place beside that of his father.
He was born at Wichita, Kansas, January 20, 1886, was educated at Los
Angeles in the public schools and the Harvard Military School, attended
the University of Southern California and Stanford University until
1908, and took his law work in the University of Southern California
until 1910. After that he studied law with E. W. Freeman until ad-
mitted to the bar in 1912.
In the meantime his father's death had forced him into the lead in
various business enterprises and much of his time was taken up with
practical affairs rather than law practice. He was secretary of the Cali-
fornia City Land Company and thus became identified with the owner-
ship and subdivision of the old Jacob Rancho of fifteen thousand acres
in Kings county, which was entirely sold out to the settlers. The com-
])any gave ever)' assistance to its purchasers in their start and early
struggles. The company collected all of its contracts and had not a
single foreclosure. As secretary and treasurer of the Alvarado Oil
Company \''ernon McCollough had much to do with early develoj)-
nient of the Taft-^lidway field. The leases of this company were in-
volved in the former Gypsum contest and presidential withdrawal orders,
but after numerous hearings and several years in the land office at
Washington patents were issued to the company for the land. The
McCollough Investment Company, of which \'ernon McCollough was
secretary, dealt exclusively in its own property. He was also secretary
of the Sofifel Drug Company, vice president of the Porterville Alfalfa
Farm Company, which engaged in alfalfa raising and dairying in Tulare
county. Mr. McCollough was a member of the Southern California
Lodge of Masons, the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity, and was a repub-
lican and Presbyterian.
In 1918 he was putting his affairs in order with a view to entering
Camp Riley at the time the armistice was signed. In order to do his
utmost as a patriotic citizen he had also put in a large tract of three
hundred twenty acres of wheat and conducted a dairy on his ranch
at Porterville. He worked hard, undermining his strength, and on De-
cember 11th, having returned home from the ranch exhausted with his
labors he was stricken with influenza and passed awav December 22.
1918.
Edw.ard J. Fleming. Of all the professions, the law perhaps re-
quires the greatest amount of study along generally accepted uninterest-
ing lines. The physician generally becomes absorbed in scientific in-
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vestigation at the beginning of his reading, while the minister starts out
with mind illuminated and heart attune. The hard facts of law that
have to be learned by themselves and learned in such a manner that they
will quicken understanding into the comprehension that may later be
drawn upon before judge and jury have very often discouraged a stu-
dent at the outset and have resulted in his turning to a much easier
vocation. Not so in the case of Edward J. Fleming, however. From
the outset of his period of preparatory study, this prominent Los An-
geles attorney has been continuously and profoundly interested in all
that pertains to his profession, and the fact that after twenty-two years
of practice he is still a close student and untiring investigator may have
something to do with the marked success that has come to him.
Mr. Fleming was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 28, 1872,
a son of Peter Flenung, who came to Los Angeles in 1874. Subsequently
Peter Fleming had much to do with the development of Southern Call
fornia and the eastern part of Los Angeles County, and particularly in
the upbuilding of Pomona and Ontario. Edward J. Fleming was but
two years of age when he accompanied his parents to the Pacific Coast,
and this has been his home ever since, he being essentially a product of
California and its institutions. After attending public schools in South-
ern California, he became a student in Pomona College, and after his
graduation therefrom began the study of law with P. C. Tomser, a well-
known Los Angeles attorney. He was admitted to the bar in 1897, and
in that year opened an office and began the practice of his chosen calling.
Two years later, in 1899, he was made city attorney of Pomona, a posi-
tion in which he served from 1899 to 1902, and in 1903 became deputy
district attorney of Los Angeles County, retaining that position until
1907. In the latter year and 1908 he was prosecuting attorney for the
city of Los Angeles, and since 1908 has been engaged in private practice.
Mr. Fleming is recognized as possessing one of the keenest minds in the
legal profession of Los Angeles, is active in public affairs, and is a man
of sterling qualities who is absolutely upright and honorable in all his
dealings. He is greatly sought after as general counsel for large Los
Angeles corporations. A successful corporation lawyer must not only
be an alert and broad member of his profession, but a keen and far-seeing
business man. His is pre-eminently the domain of practical law in which
hard fact and solid logic, fertility of resource and vigor of professional
treatment are usually relied upon, rather than ingenious theory and the
graces of oratory. When to these qualities are added oratorical power,
and the humor, geniality and unfailing courtesy of a gentleman, Mr.
Fleming's main traits have been set forth.
Mr. Fleming was married at Los Angeles, California, April 27,
1897, to Gertrude Dennis, and they have resided in this city since 1913.
Mr. Fleming holds membership in the Masons, Knights of Pythias, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and Knights
of the Maccabees. He also has various other professional, business, civic
and social connections and is an active and valued member of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Municipal League.
Mrs. Kearnie Cross. No history of Los Angeles, especially of its
early years, is complete which fails to take account of its pioneer women.
Leaving homes of comfort and refinement in the states further East,
they braved the discomforts of life in a new community, animated by
the devoted love of woman for the man of her heart, and full of en-
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thusiasm for rearing in the new land of the West the institutions of re-
Hgion, education and charity. While our minds are thrilled by the
stirring narratives of the enterprise and deeds of the pioneers in trade,
in manufactures, in the professions and in politics, our hearts swell with
emotion at the mention of the names and the abundant works of their
companions in courage and in toil.
The roll of these noble women of the early days includes the name
of the late Mrs. Kearnie Cross, whose death occurred at Los Angeles
March 14, 1918. Born at Columbus, Ohio, November 26, 1846, as Kearnie
Happy Cope, in her childhood she was known as "Ker'nappy," accord-
ing to the English custom of abbreviating names into nicknames. Her
parents were John and Margaret Cope, and she was a descendant of the
English families of Bull, Roe and Cope. She had five sisters : Margaret,
the widow of John Cope; Lucy Christmas, deceased, who was the wife
of Gerard Huiskamp, also deceased; Abbie Roe, the wife of George
Thompson ; Mary, the widow of Frank Richards, and Ellen, deceased.
Mrs. Cope, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Richards all reside within a few
blocks of the former home of Mrs. Cross, 661 Lucas avenue, Los
Angeles.
Kearnie Cope received her education in the public schools of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, where she attended high school. She lost her father when
she was still in her teens. At that time she learned to tailor vests, thus
becoming self-supporting, and during the Civil war assisted in conduct-
ing the shoe store of her brother-in-law, Gerard Huiskamp, whose clerks
had joined the colors. It was while there that she was courted by a
dashing young infantry officer, Captain Henson Huff Cross. He was
born at Phillippi, West Virginia, March 19, 1833, at 9 a. m. "I know
the time," humorously states the venerable physician, "because I was
there." At five years of age he started attending the summer school, and
by the fall of the same year was able to spell words of two syllables.
When he was eight years old his father and neighbors built a log cabin
school, so that the children could attend during the winter terms, and
when he was twenty-five he moved to the county seat and there attended
pay school. \Vhen the Civil war came on his sentiments were with the
North, and in spite of the fact t^at he had two brothers with the com-
mand of "Old" Moseby in the gray ranks, and a brother-in-law also
fighting in the Confederate forces, he enlisted as a private in Company
D, Thirtieth Iowa X'olunteers. During the siege of Vicksburg, one dark
night the young Southerner, fighting for the Union, gained his first
sleeve stripes through a disobeyance of orders. He was detailed with
eight men in charge to guard a gully and told to shoot on sight should
any one enter. Instead, when some one approached, he warned his men
not to fire, and hailed. The answer came out of the darkness: "For
God's sake, don't shoot ! It's Deane !" This saved the life of Lieutenant
Deane of the Union forces. Later he received further promotions, and
when he received his honorable discharge, it was with the rank of captain.
His action in joining the Union army caused Dr. Cross to be
termed the "black sheep" of the family, and when he returned to his
home, it was to find his cattle and property had been confiscated, thus
making it necessary that he begin life anew. About his first action upon
reaching Keokuk, Iowa, was to resume his courtship of Miss Cope, to
whom he was married September 6, 1866, by the Rev. Doctor Westdver
of the Baptist Church. He secured employment in a drug store at Keo-
kuk, where he began the study of medicine and surgery, and remained
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in that city until 1883, in which year he came with Mrs. Cross to Los
Angeles. Here he built a home on Spring street, on the present site of
the Alexandria Hotel Annex, and this land is still owned by the family,
in whose possession it has been for nearly fifty years. Next he owned
a drug store on Grand and Sixteenth streets, and later bought nearly
four acres on Alyarado street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, where he
continued in business for many years, although he is now living in retire-
ment at his Lucas avenue home, which he has made his place of residence
for the past eighteen years. With him lives his niece, Kearnie Nancy
(Cross) Hair, who has been with him for fourteen years; her husband,
Raford Hair, whom she married in 1909, and their small son, Raford Jr. ;
also Verna Thomas, another niece, who has been with him eight years,
and her husband, Wayne Thomas, who was a sergeant in the World war
and is now manager of the stock department of the Miller Rubber Com-
pany, Los Angeles branch. Mr. Thomas was overseas, remaining four-
teen months.
Dr. Cross" ancestry is English, and his grandfather, the emigrant
to America, was twice married, having fifteen children by his first mar-
riage and sixteen by his second union to a Miss Barbary of Alsace-
Lorraine. He settled at Rollsberg, where the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road crosses the Cheat River, in Tucker County, West Virginia. The
doctor's mother was Nancy (Cunningham) Cross.
Mrs. Kearnie Cross was a domestic woman, conscious of her fem-
inine charms, not unmindful of the duties of hospitality, nor careless of
the claims of social life. Yet she also felt it her duty to aid her husband,
and in this connection qualified as a pharmacist, being thus able to assist
him in compounding prescriptions. She was a member of the Ladies'
Relief Corps of Barlett Logan Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and
her life was an active if not conspicuous one. During her long residence
in Ijos Angeles she gathered about her numerous friends, in whose
memories she will always remain as a fragrant, loving presence.
Charles Carroll McCom.\s. Members of the bar in Southern
California have long held in the highest respect the character, inHuence
and high minded cjualities of the late Judge C. C. McComas, who be-
came identified with the Los Angeles bar more than thirty years ago.
He was a brave and dutiful young officer of the Union army during the
Civil war. By hard work and close attention he earned a high place
in the law, and his entire life was directed to a singularly good pur-
pose and high end.
Judge McComas was born on his father's farm in Jasper county,
Illinois, August 10, 1846, a son of Charles Carroll McComas, who repre-
sented the Virginia branch of the McComas family. Charles C. Mc-
Comas moved to Decatur, Illinois, in 1861, and on the 4th of August,
a few days before his sixteenth birthday, he enlisted in the 115th Regi-
ment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in as corporal,
and after the battle of Resaca was promoted to first sergeant and later
to first lieutenant. At the battle of Chickamauga he was severely
wounded in the right side while serving as a color guard, with a posi-
tion in the center of his regiment. On recovering from his wound
after six months in the hospital he rejoined his command and remained
in service until the close of the hostilities.
After the war he supported himself by engaging in business at De-
catur and studied law at night. He also took a course in the law school
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of the University of Michigan. His old regimental commander Colonel
Moore showed much interest in his early career and did much to enable
him to get started in his profession. He finish his law studies while
a confidential clerk of Hugh Crea, the ablest lawyer of Illinois at that
time. He began individual practice in 1869, and in 1871 was elected
State's attorney for Lincoln county. After finishing his term he re-
moved with his family to Earned, Kansas, then on the frontier, and
was almost immediately elected Probate Judge. On account of the
destitute condition of Kansas following periods of drought and financial
depression he sought a home further west. He lived at Albuiiuen|ne,
New Mexico, five years, was appointed and served as prosecuting at-
torney for the Second Judicial District, and was also a member of the
Territorial Senate. He was author of the public school law of New
Mexico territory. In order to give his children the advantages of better
schools Judge McComas removed to Los Angeles in 1886.
The following year he became assistant district attorney of Los An-
geles county, and he continued to fill tjiat office for many years. He
was regarded as the superior of any prosecuting attorney the county ever
had, and in 1899 one of the Los Angeles papers said that he enjoyed
the record of having convicted more criminals during his service as a
public prosecutor than any other officer on the Pacific Coast in a like
period of time.
Judge McComas earned other high honors in his profession. He
had some important responsibilities in the preliminaries to the trial of
the McNiamara dynamiting case in Los Angeles, and the heavy work
demanded of him in that connection brought on a nervous breakdown.
Judge McComas died, deeply regretted and mourned, December 22,
1916, at the age of seventy-three. He was laid to rest under the auspices
of the Bartlett Logan Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mrs. McComas, who survived her honored husband only a few
years was one of the distinguished women of California. She was
born at Paris, Illinois, in 1850, and died November 28, 1919. Her home
for several years was the beautiful place near San Dimas, "The Ren-
dezvous," which is still retained by her children. She was the daugh-
ter of General Jesse H. and Rachel (Hines) Moore. Her father was the
Colonel Moore previously mentioned as having favored and assisted
Judge McComas during his early professional career. Her brothers
are Rear Admiral Charles B. T. Moore, a retired naval officer, and H. M.
Moore, both of Decatur, Illinois ; and two of her sisters are living.
Mrs. McComas was educated in St. Mary of the Woods at Terre
Haute, Indiana, taking special honors in music and literary composition
and being a prize winner in elocution. On November 14, 1870, at De-
catur. Illinois, she gave her hand to Judge McComas, the marriage cere-
mony being performed by her father. Their four daughters were Helen,
Alice Beach, Clare and "Charles" Carroll. Helen died in 1891.
Mrs. McComas was the first woman in California to conduct a
magazine department in a daily newspaper, the Los Angeles Express,
for the discussion of woman suffrage. She was also the first Cali-
fornia woman to speak at a State republican ratification meeting, that be-
ing in 1894. She was chairman of the Press Committee for Southern
California during the first woman's suffrage campaign. She possessed
the logical habits of thought, the forcefulness and enthusiasm that made
her one of the most effective public speakers of her sex. At the
Woman's Congress which met in San Francisco and adjourned to Oak-
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land she was on the program of speakers with David Starr Jordan and
Edward Howard Griggs. For a quarter of a century she was an earnest
worker in many vital movements in her home community and affecting
state and nation. She was one of the earliest workers of the Free Kin-
dergarten Association; one of the organizers of the Working Woman's
Club ; was a lecturer on politics, individual education in the public
schools, and the common sense rearing of children. She made a thor-
ough investigation of the Panama Canal during its construction and
lectured and wrote many articles on that subject and published a book
on the women of the Canal Zone. She contributed a chapter for South-
ern California to the history of suft'rage edited by Ida Husted Harper
of Washington, D. C, and was a frequent contributor to more than
seventy newspapers on various phases of the suffrage question. She
originated the "precinct" idea in woman's suffrage campaigning. She
was author of a pamphlet "An Answer to a Timely Question" covering
the suffrage movement. During the World's Columbian Exposition
in Chicago in 1893 she was correspondent for three California news-
papers, and was a special contributor of travel sketches to the Los
Angeles Times and various magazines. She was author of a book on
child life in California, "Under the Peppers." Many readers recognize
her name in connection with short stories, articles on politics and eco-
nomics, that have appeared in the press and periodicals from time to
time. For two years she was associate editor of the Household Journal,
later the Southwest of Los Angeles.
The Southern California Chautauqua Association, a popular in-
stitution at Long Beach for a number of years, was due largely to her
enterprise.
She was a member of the Play-Goers of New York, the Ethical
Society of Los Angeles, the Woman's Press Association of San Fran-
cisco, the California Club of New York, was one of the founders of
the Woman's Press Club, a charter member of the Friday Morning
Club of Los Angeles, a member of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles, a
former president of the Los Angeles Woman's Suffrage Association,
and a member of the Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association, Wom-
an's Parliament of Southern California, and Woman's Parliament of
San Francisco.
While it is appropriate to refer to these 'many activities, never at
any time did they overshadow the dominating home and motherhood
ideals of her life. In fact her other pursuits and interests were but
the incidental expression of that vital instinct at the foundation of home.
Her daughters' progress, welfare and character building stood first
always. When it is considered how much her home and children meant
to her, it was very appropriate that her pastor at the funeral service
should read a poem written by Mrs. McComas and published many years
ago, containing the following words :
"Heaven draws near to this Motherland ; *
How near those only may understand
Who have felt the touch of a baby hand ;
Who have seen the smile on baby's face
Aglow with that far, still wondering grace ;
Who feel, when the baby murmurs low.
There are those somewhere who hear and know.
Who read the mystery of the skies
In the tender blue of the baby's eyes ;
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And the restless arms the baby swings
Still keep the motion of tiny wings
As when from heaven it flew apart
And found its way to a Mother's heart."
Her oldest daughter Alice Beach is a concert pianist and has played
in most of the large cities of the United States She is now the wife of
Mr. Charles P. Gray, well known as a map maker, of New York City.
Their two talented daughters, Alice Dorothy and Charles Carroll, are
,the only grandchildren of Judge and Mrs. McComas.
Clare McComas, the second daughter, also received every oppor-
tunity and advantage in music and for four years made the stage her
profession and is now promment in musical circles of Los Angeles, being
a member of the Lyric Club. She possesses a contralto voice of great
pov.er and sweetness. She traveled a great deal with her mother and
sister Carroll in America, Europe and Africa. She is now the wife of
Mr. Norman C. Robinson of Los Angeles.
Tlie youngest daughter Carroll McComas enjoys a rapidly widen-
ing appreciation and favor as an actress and has been leading lady with
Frohman & Belasco. She traveled widely with her mother and sister
Clare over Europe, Africa and Canada. They visited Qftris, Brussels,
London and other cities and spent some time in South Africa, being pres-
ent in Johannesberg the day General Kruger was buried. In her earlier
career when she was abroad with her mother she was known as "Carroll
the Whistler." Under the auspices of the "Over There Theatre League"
Carioll McComas was head of a unit which went to France and gave
daily performances for the American soldiers, and followed the Army
of Occupation to Coblenz, Germany, where she continued her work un-
til the spring of 1919.
Orf.\ Jean Shontz. A great many people in Los Angeles who are
not under the bondage of fixed ideas and derive their chief enthusiasm
from the lives of real service around them, have been following with
increasing pride and appreciation for some years the career of Orfa Jean
Shontz. one of the most prominent woman lawyers of the city, and in the
capacity of referee in the Juvenile Court the first woman in California
really to sit on the bench and administer justice. In 1918 Miss Shontz
became a candidate for nomination for one of the judges of the Superior
Court.
Miss Shontz was born in Avoca, Iowa, received her early education
in Sioux City of that state, and after attending Iowa State College at
Ames, came to California and studied law in the University of California.
She graduated in 1914, and was admitted to the bar of California in
1913. For three years prior to that time she served as probation officer
of the Juvenile Court. For two years she w-as secretary of the Probate
Court, and during that time made a special study of property rights as
pertaining to women and children and guardianship matters. In 1915
she was appointed referee of the Girls' Juvenile Court, and for three
years has heard all the cases for the girls and boys up to thirteen years
of age. She was appointed referee by Judge Sidney Nf. Reeve. During
her four and one-half years as referee she heard over seven thousand
cases. This can be said of Miss Shontz what can not be said of all her
brothers in the law, that she entered and qualified for the profession
as a profession and not a trade or vocation. She appreciates the dignities
and responsibilities of the law, and recognizes it as a great opportunity
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for human service quite apart from any honors or material rewards in-
cident to the practice. Her best enthusiasm has been aroused and her
mind has been chiefly centered on those branches of the law which safe-
guard human rights and particularly the rights of the dependent and
those classes whom society too frequently neglects. Miss Shontz is state
chairman of legislation for the California Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teachers Association, and in that capacity she helped prepare a
bill increasing the allowance for the care of orphans or half orphans
from eleven to twenty dollars a month. She is past president of the
Professional Woman's Club, member of the Psychopathic Association,
member of the Woman Lawyers' Association, member of the Los An-
geles Woman's City Club, is national president of the Phi Delta Delta
Legal Sorority, and a member of several other woman's and civic
organizations.
Guy B. Bakham. The long and eventful career of Guy B. Barham,
extending over a period of thirty-seven years at Los Angeles, has been
characterized by his connection with various lines of activity, in all
of which he has found a field for the display of his versatile abilities.
During the past eight years he has been president and owner of the Los
Angeles Evening Herald and at present is one of the leading figures
in journalistic circles of the state.
Mr. Barham was born at The Dalles, Oregon, March 21, 1864, a son
of Richard M. and Martha Medora (Arnold) Barham, and when two
years old was taken by his parents to Watsonville, California. In 1873
the family removed to Los Angeles County where he received his early
education in the public schools. Subsec^uently he attended Anaheim
High School, and in 1882 became a resident of Los Angeles. At the
age of twenty-one years he became a railway postal clerk, and, finding
governmental work satisfactory and congenial, in 1888 accepted an ap-
pointment as deput)' collector of Internal Revenue of Los Angeles. Re-
signing this post two years later, he embarked in the customs house and
internal revenue brokerage business on his own account, which success-
ful business he still maintains. During this time he was also actively
interested in politics, and in 1895 served as police commissioner of Los
Angeles. In 1902 he was made president of the Board of Bank Commis-
sioners of California, and discharged the duties of that ofifice until 1906,
when he resumed his activities in his former line of business. Mr. Bar-
ham purchased the Los Angeles Evening Herald in 1911, and smce then
has devoted the greater part of his lime and attention to his duties as
president of the company controlling that newspaper. He is a member
of the Los Angeles and Midwick Country Clubs, the Jonathan Club, and
the California Club, of Los Angeles, the Bohemian Club of San Fran-
cisco, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
On August 4, 1903, Mr. Barham married at Detroit, Michigan, Miss
Marie Humphreys Baby. They became the parents of one child, Millicent
Marie.
Don C. McGarvin, who died June 21, 1910, had lived intensely and
picturesquely during his brief forty years and achieved a merit of long
memory. The superficial events of his life could be reviewed in a few
words, but the interest lies in his personality and th? spirit which he
exemplified. No one appreciated this better than his personal friend.
Harry C. Carr, who gave to the public press a tribute which deserves
repetition and from which the following is taken :
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"After an illness of five days, Don Clio McGarvin, one of the fore-
most figures of political life in Southern California, died at his home,
1547 Gramercy Place, of scarlet ever. One of the most interesting men
of California has passed. Were I asked in a foreign country to describe
a typical American, I should try to draw a picture of Don C. McGarvin,
who was my friend and who has died. He had every American char-
acteristic. He looked American, he thought American. In the middle
of a crowd in the wilds of Kamchatka, he would have been picked out
at the first glance as an American. He was the most perfect exemplifica-
tion of the new race type I have ever known.
"He had the true American faculty of doing intense, accurate, tre-
mendous work in an easy, careless way. He had an American way of
being shrewd and keen without being sharp or hard. He had the Amer-
ican way of meeting his most stunning success and his hardest bumps
with the same whimsical humorous philosophy. He could receive the
news that he had been made king or pauper without letting his cigar go
out. He was a good loser, but he was also what is much finer and
much rarer, a good winner, because a generous, modest one.
"The picture of a true American type would have been marred if
McGarvin had not been a politician. I can't imagine a man so thoroughly
and typically American without seeing him immersed to the neck in our
great national game. He played politics unselfishly. With him it was a
kind of an aggrandized sport. McGarvin's political career in its im-
portant phase began in the county campaign of 1898. He was at that
time already well known in Los Angeles, for he had lived here nearly
all his life. He was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas, in 1870. Five
years later his parents came to Los Angeles. His father became one of
the most prominent real estate operators of the city. At twenty, after
he had gone through the public schools, Don C. decided to become a
lawyer. He started in the office of Ex-Judge Waldo M. York. His
eyes failed. Being forced to abandon his law study, he entered the
service of the Chamber of Commerce and conspired with Frank Wig-
gins to depopulate the frozen East. At the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago and at the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco he was Wit;gins'
lieutenant and did a great deal toward creating the immigration schemes
which have made Los Angeles famous throughout the world. He was in
the real estate business with his father in 1898 when elected secretary
of the Republican County Central Committee. He held this position
through two campaigns, that is to say for eight years. He showed the
highest ability as a city organizer and tactician. He never got exc ted,
he never was thrown into panics ; he was wary and shrewd and keen.
yet open and square in his dealing. He 'said it to your face.'
"In 1905 he was made chairman of the City Central Committee, a
fierce fighting job. McGarvin enjoyed every minute of it. This was
'the game' for all it was worth. At the same time he was a member of
the State Central Committee which managed the Gillett campaign. In
1902 McGarvin was elected public administrator of the county. I don't
believe that any one else ever held the office who got so much fun out
of it. The public administrator sees life as it comes, hot and strong;
he sees life with the cover stripped off.
"Mr. McGarvin had fine literary interests and he appreciated the
little comedies and tragedies of the administrat'on of his office as no
public administrator ever did before or, I guess, ever will a?:ain. While
in that office he completed his legal studies and was admitted to the bar
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in 1905. After his term expired he became associated with J. W. McKin-
ley in the law business and had a big practice."
Mr. McGarvin belonged to the Masonic Order, Signet Chapter No.
-57 R. A. M., Los Angeles Commandery K. T., and Al Malaikah Temple
■of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the Jonathan Club and the
Union League Chib.
Julian Pascal. It is the peculiar power of Southern California to
attract sooner or later most of the eminent men and women of the world
as visitors, and the musical community of Los Angeles has frequently
congratulated itself upon the conditions which made Julian Pascal a
permanent resident from 1912.
Mr. Pascal, whose name has for a number of years been associated
with the world's foremost pianists, was born at Bridgetown in Barados,
British West Indies, and is of French and English parentage. His early
education was acquired in Barbados. Later he attended Harrison Col-
lege and going abroad studied at the Leipsic Conservatory and later with
Martin Krause, in London under Tobias Matthay, and in New York
with Raphael Joseffy. He has given recitals in England, Germany,
South America and West Indies and in most of the large cities of the
United States. Mr. Pascal was a professor at the Guildhall School
of Music in London, and while there had as a pupil Myra Hess, a little
girl of seven years, now one of England's best known pianists.
As a composer his work includes about fifty compositions for tht
piano and about half as many songs. Some of the better known are
"Dreams, " "The Cloister," "Two Romances," " Water Song," "April,"
"Spring Morning," "Tropical Scenes," "Compensation," "Bouree, a
French Dance," "Nocturne," "October," "Dancing Fairies,'' "Melody,"
"Valse Caprice," "Bacchante." The most popular is "Dreams," which
had a sale of more than two hundred thousand records on the Pianola.
After five years at the Guildhall in London Mr. Pascal made an-
other trip to the West Indies on account of his health. After recuperat-
ing he came to the United States and was a highly successful teacher
in New York for twelve years. Then to benefit Mrs. Pascal's health
he came to California in 1912, and Los Angeles has since been his home.
Some of his best work as a teacher, composer and performer has been
done under these genial skies.
As an artist Mr. Pascal's work speaks for itself and is self sustain-
ing, but some very flattering comments have been made upon it by press
and musical critics. A typical criticism is that found in an issue of the
Musical Courier: "He exhibits a thorough mastery of the keyboard
and an exhaustive memory. As a composer he is decidedly a musician
and as a pianist he is one of the few whose dazzling technique does not
outshine his art." "He has the prodigious technique of Lhevinne and
Hofman, coupled with the poetry of De Pachmann and the touch of
Harold Bauer." "His playing indicates ability of the highest order, his
style is artistic and graceful, and he is able to do full justice to the
greatest pianoforte compositions."
Concerning his wonderful gift of improvisation and for tone color
the Examiner says : "Particularly delightful and interesting is his free
improvisation which seems to portray the exquisite lotus dream of a per-
fect Southern California afternoon." Leading critics have pronounced
Mr. Pascal one of the most magnetic, inspiring and cultured pianists of
the present day. He has developed many child prodigies, a fact of the
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highest significance concerning his teaching. He has devoted most of
his time in Los Angeles to teaching. The gentle spirit of this highly
temperamental and cultured genus has brought him a host of admirers.
Mr. Pascal is a ]\Iason and a member of the Christian Science church.
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M.ARiE C.\ROLYN HoDGDON. While not so -widely known as some
other persons in Los Angeles, Marie Carolyn Hodgdon has performed
an invaluable work during the past ten years as superintendent of nurses
at the Clara Barton Hospital.
Miss Hodgdon represents an old New England family and was born
at West Milan, New Hampshire, one of twelve children. Her father,
Samuel F. Hodgdon, was a native of Parsonfield, Maine, a lumberman,
and of early pioneer stock, the Hodgdons having come from England
about the time of the Revolution. The Hodgdon coat of arms bears the
words, "Animo et Fide," and "Hodgdon of Hodgdon."
Marie Carolyn Hodgdon attended public schools at West Milan, also
the Tilton Seminary at New Hampshire, and trained for her profession
in the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital at Concord, New Hamp-
shire. She did a year of private duty work in nursing at Concord, and
in 1907 first came to California to visit relatives. Returning East, she
took a course in institutional nursing and hospital economics at Grace
Hospital in Detroit, and in the meantime the position of superintendent
of nurses at the Clara Barton Hospital of Los Angeles was oft'ered her
and held open until she could take charge. Dr. H. P. Barton is manager
of the hospital, which is situated in the heart of the business district
and is one of the leading institutions of its kind in Los Angeles. The
nursing force when Miss Hodgdon took charge consisted of a night
supervisor and of one graduate nurse in surgery. At the present time
there is an assistant superintendent of nurses and three graduate head
nurses, an instructress, an operating room nurse and night supervisor.
Miss Hodgdon has also done much to develop and improve the training
school and a nurses' home has been built. In 1914 the hospital had an
average daily attendance of sixty-six patients and thirty operations
weekly, while in 1919 the daily average was seventy-nine patients, and
forty-three weekly operations.
Hiram W.vtson Tebbetts, M. D. Many Southern Califomians will
long treasure their associations with the home, family and the person
of the late Dr. Hiram Watson Tebbetts and his cultured wife, Lucy Jane
Morrill Tebbetts. Apart from the material good they did, their lives
were a benediction to all who came within the scope of their influence.
Dr. Tebbetts was born at Lake Providence, Louisiana. It was tra-
ditional in the Tebbetts family for generations that the oldest son should
choose a medical career. Hiram Watson Tebbetts was prepared for
college at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated
from Dartmouth College with the class of 1867. He then studied medi-
cine, practiced for some years in Rockford, Illinois, and finally came to
California and made his home in Los Angeles. His death, after a pro-
longed illness of several years, occurred January 6, 1918. He was a
Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and
Sbriner. At Concord, New Hampshire, October 20, 1875, he married
Lucy Jane Morrill. Mrs. Tebbetts represented old American stock. Her
great-uncle, Colonel James B. Varnum of Springfield, Massachusetts,
was speaker of the House in the Sixteenth Congress. Her father, Elijah
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Morrill, was an Illinois pioneer and owned thousands of acres of land
in that statj. Mrs. Tebbetts' uncle built one of the first log cabm h^mes
on the prairies of Illinois. Mrs. Tebbetts was educated in jBraaiora
Seminary in Massachusetts, and in Brook Hall in Philadelphia. She
was a most devoted mother, an active member of St. John's Episcopal
Church, being one of its earliest communicants. For years she inter-
ested herself in the welfare of Los Angeles as a community. She had
been an invalid for three years before her death, though under the
stimulus of the World war she kept up work at home, and turned out a
sweater every week. Her interests were centered in her home and
family, and her children loved her with all the devotion which her beau-
tiful character inspired. She had been a resident of Los Angeles for
twenty-nine years and practically reared her family in this city. The
children, five in number, all educated in Los Angeles, are Dr. Hiram B.
Tebbetts, Dr. John H. Tebbetts, William W. Tebbetts, Francis W. Teb-
betts and Lucy E. Tebbetts.
B. F. Yarnell, who died at Los Angeles, August 1, 1918, had been
a resident of Southern California for over forty years, coming here in
early childhood. Born at Lewistown, Iowa, December 24, 1872, he was
three years of age when his parents came to California. At the time of
his death he was probably the oldest and best known contractor and
appraiser in the city. He had been engaged in that line of business
for fifteen years, and was considered an authority on all matters relat-
ing to appraising and adjusting of fire losses. His father was a pioneer
builder at Los Angeles and the son took up and developed the same
line of business. *
Mr. Yarnell was reared in Los Angeles, was a graduate of the City
High School and from that school joined his father in the building and
contracting business.
Mr. Yarnell had a genius for friendship. He had those personal
qualifications, more particularly an unselfish interest in others, which
brought him hosts of admirers, not only from among his business asso-
ciates but all classes of men. Few representatives of the prominent
families of this State were better known than B. F. Yarnell. His
works of commerce and charity will long stand as a monument to his
memory and the vacancy in many circles will not soon be filled. For
one term he served as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education,
was a member of the Union League Club, Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Blue
Goose and other social and business organizations. He was buried under
the auspices of the Masonic Order.
Besides the business and good name he left to his family a wonder-
ful ranch of eight hundred twenty acres in San Diego county. The
B. F. Yarnell Company since the death of its founder has been continued
by Mrs. Yarnell, with the assistance of her son William G. and Mr. W. L.
Wolfskin, an associate of Mr. Yarnell for a number of years.
February 1, 1899, Mr. Yarnell married Miss Laura A. Griffith at
Riverside, California. She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, was edu-
cated there to the age of twelve years, when she came to California with
her parents Mr. and Mrs. U. Griffith, and here finished her education.
Her father was a prominent business man of St. Joseph, Missouri. At
the death of her husband Mrs. Yarnell was left with four children, two
sons and two daughters: William G., Lillian R., Burtron F., Jr., and
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Virginia L., all of whom were born in the old family home at Los An-
geles on South Union avenue. This residence was built by Mr. Yar-
nell, and besides it he owned considerable local real estate including
two beautiful summer homes, one at Sierra Madre at the foot of Mount
Wilson, and the other at Hermosa Beach.
Charles E. Van Loan. It was the opinion shared by his contem-
poraries in the realm of fiction writing and the reading public at large
that the late Charles E. Van Loan had no superior as a writer of enter-
taining stories pertaining to the world of sport. While his was a versa-
tile pen, capable of interpreting the thou-^hts and fancies of an exceed-
ingly active and facile brain, it was, perhaps, in embodying- his concep-
tion of the principles of manly pastimes and connecting them with highly
interesting story plots that he was found at his best, and endeared him-
self to thousands of readers.
Charles E. Van Loan was born at San Jose, California, June 29,
1876, a son of Richard and Emma (Blodgett) Van Loan, the latter a
native of California. His father was born in New York state, and as a
young man came to California. The public schools of Californ'a fur-
nished Charles E. Van Loan with his educational training, atid when he
graduated from high school he secured a position with the Standard Oil
Company, in the offices of which he worked for seven years -^t Los
Angeles. From early youth he was intensely fond of sports and outdoor
life, and eventually he secured a position as a sports wr'ter with the Los
Angeles Herald. He was later on the sporting stai? of the Los Angeles
Examiner for about five years, and was connected with the Denver Post
for one year, and the New York American for two years. During this
time he stored up much of the information that gave him the plots for the
stories which later made him nationally famous. He traveled extensively
in the interests of his papers, for some years accompanying bi^ league
baseball teams as special newspaper correspondent, and it is doubtful if
there has ever been a writer who has so thoroughly understood and ap-
preciated the professional athlete. Mr. Van Loan's stories soon began to
appear in Munsey's, the Popular, Collier's and finallv the Saturday Eve-
ning Post, in the last named of which he gained his largest audience,
and when he had become fully recognized as a fiction writer he gave up
newspaper work to apply himself to magazine writing. Four volumes of
short stories were published by Small, Maynard Company, and a like
number by George H. Doran Company.
Mr. Van Loan was an advocate of all outdoor life and sports and a
devotee of golf,' fishing, hunting and automobiling. He was a member
of the Los Angeles Country Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and
thousands of celebrities throughout the country knew and loved
"Charley" Van Loan. They, and his reading public, were greatly shocked
to hear of the tragic accident which occurred when his automobile went
over a cliff in the San Bernardino Mountains, July 16, 1914, when he
suffered a broken jaw and a compound fracture of the left forearm, the
use of the latter being lost to him. However, he recovered and again
plunged into work, and some of his b3St writing was done during the
next four years. In 1919 Mr. Van Loan accepted an appointment as
associate editor of the Saturday Evenincr Post, and in November, 1919,
went to Philadelphia to assume the duties of that posit'on. Not l-^ng
after his arrival nephritis developed, causing his death Ma'-ch 2, 1920.
Following the news of his death, his father sent the following telegram
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to his daughter-in-law : '"Our hearts suffer with yours in your great
sorrow. Father." A few minutes later his own death occurred from
shock.
Mr. Van Loan married a San Francisco girl, Emma C. Lenz, a
daughter of Caroline Vander Leek. Mrs. Van Loan survives him, with
two children, Virginia, aged thirteen, and Richard, aged eleven.
John Comfort Allen, who is active head of the Latin American
Trade Bureau in the Chamber of Commerce Building at Los Angeles, has
developed an indispensable service to that increasing group of interests
now engaged in or promoting trade relations between California and
the Pacific Coast and Latin American countries. The essential purpose
of the bureau is the extension of American trade to the Southern re-
publics, and its facilities include an expert personnel and a vast amount
of classified information and foreign connections for handling all the
problems, including correspondence, selling, shipping, banking, credits,
collections and other matters involved in trade relations with the Latin
American countries. An important auxiliary of the Trade Bureau is the
publication of "The Neighbors" and the "Los Vecinos," both monthly
publication^, the former in English and the latter in Spanish.
In building up and directing this business, Mr. Allen possesses the
benefit of a wide experience, gained by an actual residence covering
twenty-six years in Mexico and other Latin-American countries. Dur-
ing all those years his work and business brought him a varied and com-
prehensive knowledge of transportation, commercial, financial and agri-
cultural conditions in Latin-America, and covering the last four years
of his residence there, that is from 1910 to 1914, he was in the consular
service of the United States in Mexico. He has been established now
nearly six years in Los Angeles.
Mr. Allen was born at Belfast, Allegany County, New York, at the
home of his parents, Joseph Allen and Phoebe (Comfort) Allen. He
has an interesting ancestry, and through his mother is a member of an
American family that has been in this country for over two centuries.
His paternal grandfather, Joseph S. Allen, was born in Glasgow, Scot-
land, March 9, 1794. At the age of sixteen he ran away and joined
the British army as a means of getting to America. After reaching
Canada he deserted the British forces, crossed over into the United
States, and soon afterward, his sympathies being thoroughly American,
he enlisted in the American army for service in the War of 1812. He
served as a private until the close, and then moved to Greenwich, Wash-
ington County, New York, where he married into one of the most select
aristocratic families. Many years later he went to what was then re-
garded as the West, Cattaraugus County, New York.
In the maternal line "Sir. Allen's great-great-great-grandfather, Rob-
ert Comfort, was one of several ancestors who served in the American
Colonial and later wars. Robert enlisted in 1715 in Captain Daniel
Stevenson's Company at Newtown, Queens County, New York. His son
Jacob, great-great-grandfather of Mr. Allen, was born in 1726 at New-
town, was a volunteer of Captain Remsen's company of militia, and on
April 11, 1759, at the age of thirty-three, enlisted in Captain Morse's
company. The great-grandfather, Richard Comfort Sr., born in 1745,
at Fishkill. Dutchess County, New York, was enrolled in the Dutchess
County militia with the Second New York Regiment in 1775, at the be-
ginning of the struggle for independence. He married Charity Perkins,
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and died at Deer Park, New York, in 1824. Each of these soldiers had
several brothers who were also officers or enlisted men during the
colonial or revolutionary period.
John Comfort Allen acquired his education in common schools, by
home study, and by extensive travel and experience in Latin America
and the United States. He has been affiliated with the Masonic Order
since 1898, is a member of the American Lodge at Monterey, Mexico,
and in 1911-12 was secretary of his lodge. In politics his views are
liberal.
At San Juan Bautista, Tabasco, Mexico, March 11, 1901, he mar-
ried Lilhan Thornton Desmarets, daughter of Henry L. and Lillian
(Thornton) Desmarets. Miss Desmarets also come from Revolutionary
stock on her mother's side, and her father was a Union soldier in the
Civil war and afterward became a prosperous business man in Southern
Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Allen became well known in different parts of
Latin America and in Los Angeles. Their many years of married life
were most beautiful, only to be separated in January, 1919, when Mrs.
Allen was called away by death.
Elmer Ellsworth Cole has been in business in Los Angeles since
1900 as a real estate and niininj broker. He came to California from
the Middle West, and was born in Mew England, at Milan, New Hamp-
shire, December 21, 1863, son of L. H. and Emily Lydia (Phipps) Cole.
As a boy he attended grannnar school in Portland, Maine, an
academy at Lancaster, New Hampshire, and after completing his educa-
tion went to the Northwestern states and engaged in the land business.
For a time he lived at Minneapolis, and spent about four years in Chi-
cago. Mr. Cole came to Los Angeles in March, 1900, and has since
been at the head of a prosperous real estate business.
He is a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board and the Los An-
geles Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal League, California Club, City
Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Auto-
mobile Club of Southern California, and belongs to the Masonic fra-
ternity. In 1892 he married Miss Laura Mayhew. He has two sons,
Lloyd E. and Harold L. Cole, both Stanford University men. Lloyd
saw one year of service overseas with the Ninety-first Division, was a
lieutenant and participated in the battle of the Argonne Forest. Harold
L. spent fifteen months with the aviation branch of the army, eight
months in the fixing field at Montgomery, Alabama. Both sons are
now at home.
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Dox ]\1anuel Do.minguez. Of the old California of romance, under
the Spanish and Mexican regimes, a conspicuous representative was the
late Don Manuel Dominguez, whose surviving daughters, including Mrs.
John F. Francis, still own a large portion of the magnificent clomain
which at one time was a royal grant to the Dominguez family.
The late Don Manuel was bom in San Diego, January 26, 1803.
His father, Don Cristobal Dominguez, was an officer under the Spanish
government, and a brother of Juan Jose, who received from the King
of Spain a concession of ten and a half leagues of land comprising the
Rancho de San Pedro, in Los Angeles County. At the death of Don Juan
Jose in 1822, Governor Pablo de Sola gave this rancho to Cristobal, from
whom it descended to Manuel, and the latter made it his home until his
death.
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In 1827 Don Manuel married Dona Maria Engracie Cota, daughter
of Don Guillermo Cota, a commissioner under the Mexican government.
To their marriage were born eight daughters and two sons.
Many of the responsible positions of trust in the early history of
Los Angeles County were held by ManuJ Dominguez. In 1828 he was
elected a member of the Ayuntamiento of Los Angeles. In 1828 he was
a delegate to nominate represntatives to the Mexican Congress. In
1832 he was first alcalde and judge of the First Instance for Los Angeles
In 1833 he was elected territorial representative for Los Angeles County
to the State Assembly at Monterey. He was one of the officials called to
the Conference of Monterey in 1834 for the purpose of secalarizing the
Missions. In 1839 he was chosen second alcalde for Los Angeles, and
in 1842 elected first alcalde and judge of the First Instance, and in 1843
served as prefect of the Second District of California. In 1849, after
Cahfornia had passed to the jurisdiction of the United States, he served
as a delegate to the First Constitutional Convention, and in 1854 was
made a supervisor of Los Angeles County. A number of high positions
were ofifered him under the United States government, but these he in-
variably refused.
A portion of his great ranch, amounting to twenty-five thousand
acres, he retained until his death, which occurred October 11, 1882. In
1884 all this land, except the island and several thousand acres near the
mouth of the San Gabriel River, was divided among his six daughters.
This property is still owned by his descendants, and they have carefully
preserved the adobe house in which Don Manuel and his good wife lived
happily for fifty-five years. Mrs. Dominguez died March 16,, 1883.
John F. Fr.\ncis. In selecting men of the past whose careers were
of conspicuous usefulness in the life of Los Angeles, few have a greater
variety of service to their credit than that of the late John F. Francis,
who died deeply mourned by hundreds of individuals and by many in-
stitutions on July 4, 1903.
He was born at Clinton, Iowa. His father was a shipbuilder and
at one time was employed in the great shipyards on the Clyde and Mersey
Rivers, in England. He had many experiences in America, and finally
lost his life in the mines of California in 1853. John F. Francis to some
extent shared in the adventurous career of his father. When a boy he
started on a voyage around the world. At the age of sixteen he enlisted
in the Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, under the command of Captain David
L. Payne, and had some thrilling experiences in Indian warfare on the
border. That was about a year or so after the close of the Civil war.
He then spent several years traveling over the plains and in the moun-
tains of Wyoming, Colorado and California, and travel brought him an
exact and well balanced knowledge of nearly all the European countries.
He finally returned to California in 1888, but the death of a friend took
him back to Europe, where he remained until 1891.
In 1892 Mr. Francis married Dona Maria de Los Reyes Dominguez,
youngest daughter of Don Manuel Dominguez and a granddaughter of
Don Cristobal Dominguez, who was an officer in the Spanish army at
the time California came into the possession of the United States. This
branch of the Dominguez family receives further attention on other
pages.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Francis spent seven months on
a tour of Europe, and while there met many of the leading statesmen
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and were given a private audience by the Pope. Mr. Francis had great
dignity and distinction in personal appearance and character, was gifted
with much fluency as a hnguist, and always had a fund of interesting
anecdotes and experiences.
During his Hfe in California his name became associated with many
enterprises for the advancement of his home city. He was a director of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank, vice president of the Chamber of
Commerce, vice president of the Free Harbor League, vice presid nt of
the Associated Charities and a prominent member of the California,
Sunset and Jonathan Clubs. In 1897 he was president of the La Fiesta
de Los Angeles, and as such was largely instrumental in giving that
great festival its successful results as a social event and as a means of
advertising the wonderful attractions of Los Angeles to the world. He
was a member of the executive committee of the Sound Money League
that opposed the election of W. J. Bryan in 1896. He was also one of the
organizers and president of the Catholic Layman's Club and president
of the Newman Club.
Mrs. Francis lives in one of the magnificent homes of Los Angeles,
at the corner of Ninth and Bonnie Brae. This home and its grounds,
with lawns, shrubbery and driveways, has been admired by thousands
of visitors to Los Angeles.
Judge Robert Walker McUon.\ld, who died suddenly at Pasa-
dena December 15, 1918, was one of the most widely known and best
loved citizens of Southern California. Only fifty years of age at the
time of his death he had made a comparatively brief life expressive of
the highest form of service to his fellow men. He attained neither
riches nor those high positions which men of great ambition crave. It
was the riches of his character and the work he did that distinguished
him among his contemporaries and will stand as his lasting monument.
Judge McDonald was born at Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, December
13th, 1868. His father, Marshall H. McDonald was prominent in the
river transportation and coal business in western Pennsylvania for
many years. He began life as captain and pilot of river boats, and at
one time owned a fleet of barges, owned two tow boats and was inter-
ested in two others. He was also interested in various mines in the
Monongahela Valley. He was a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce, the Pittsburg Coal Exchange and other leading State organi-
zations. Marshall H. McDonald married Elizabeth Hayes Scott, of
Scottsdale, for whose family the town was named. This branch of the
Scott family \\fas related to that of Sir Walter Scott. One of its mem-
bers by marriage, Janet Strang, was niece of Robert Bums.
Robert W. McDonald acquired a high school education in Pitts-
burg and at the age of twenty-one came to California and for about
two years lived on a ranch in Kern county. From that time until his
death a quarter of a century later he made his home in Pasadena. He
prepared himself for the law in the office of Judge Waldo M. York,
and was admitted to the bar in 1901. He was soon appointed assistant
city attorney, a work he performed five years, and on May 8, 1906, was
appointed police judge. Subsequently he was appointed Justice of the
Peace and was elected as his own successor in the fall of 1906 and at
every succeeding election for twelve years was chosen by an increased
majority. In later years he never made a campaign, the voters return-
ing him to office as a matter of course. It was in these positions as
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judge of the police court and township court that Judge McDonald did
the great work that entitled him to distinction. That work is written
in the hearts and reformed character of men, and only partially can
be transferred to the written page. He probably was the most promin-
ent township justice in Southern California and was president of the
County Organization of Justices and Constables. His work for humanity
was of the sort that attracted the attention of the outside world and a
number of his ideas for the reformation of drunkards and criminals
have been adopted elsewhere.
In the words of the Pasadena Star-Nczi's: "He was a human judge.
There was nothing automatic or mechanical about his work. Every
new case appearing before him was a fresh human problem and was so
considered. He took a personal interest in the unfortunate. To him a
common drunkard was a man who should be helped, not punished. He
was unfailingly fair and just in all his decisions and did not hesitate
to impose punishment where punishment was due, but in instances such
as a drunkard he believed a cure rather than punishment was what was
required. He originated the system whereby the city of Pasadena made
it possible for drunkards to take the cure in a private institution, with the
understanding that they were expected to consider the money paid out
in their behalf as a loan and were to repay it. Almost without excep-
tion -they have repaid it.
"Judge McDonald was a man of high ideals and splendid char-
acter. The finer things of life appealed to him. He had a strong sense
of what was fair and right, and of the decencies of life. His considera-
tion for others was often remarked upon. He knew there was some good
in everv'body, and unfailingly found that good and fostered it. His
personal interest in the cases of unfortunates who appeared before him
brought many a man and woman back to a basis of decent, substantial
citizenship after they had reached a stage where they were beyond the
sympathy or compassion of the average individual.
"The judge was a friendly adviser and counsellor to the whole
community and this fact was so generally recognized that he was called
upon to do more work outside the court, without financial reward, than
he was in the court. He liked to straighten out family and neighbor-
hood tangles in such a way that they would not be brought into court,
and his quiet work, friendly interest, good humor, patience and good
advice brought happiness back to many families that had lost it. He
had a great fondness for children and was much interested in juvenile
work. At the same time, he held that there was danger of carrying
the probation idea too far, and, while he frequently extended probation,
he invariably saw to it that the conditions under which it was granted
were lived up to.
Probably there has been no death in Los Angeles county in recent
years which has so moved men of all classes to sincere grief as that
which suddenly took away the life of this kindly and disinterested judge
and humanitarian. Tributes to his impressive character and service
came from every side, and while many of them were similar in language,
all of them were marked by spontaneous feeling, in itself a fact of
the highest significance as to the true and exalted work of Judge Mc-
Donald.
Since his death a happy means of perpetuating his memory was the
decision of the Department of Public Parks and Buildings to name a
new public park in his honor. The motion preliminary to that decision
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contains a tribute of special interest: "The people of Pasadena would
be pleased if the life of the late Robert W. McDonald, so typical in its
integrity, kindly and unselfish service and public spirit of the best quali-
ties of Pasadena citizenship, should be commemorated by naming a park
in his honor ; therefore it is hereby ordered that the said new park be
and it is hereby named 'Robert W. McDonald Park.' "
At the age of twenty-five Judge McDonald married Miss Estelle
Corson. Her mother was Flora Goodwin, whose ancestors were the
Fitzgeralds, one of the powerful and prominent families of Ireland.
Her father was Major Joseph B. Corson, who served as a major in the
Union army in the Civil war, later moved to Sheyboygan, Wisconsin,
and became identified with the upbuilding of that city and state, being
a railroad man and at one time owner of the Sheboygan Chair Factory
and also interested in farm lands. From Wisconsin the family moved
to Kansas, and in 1884 for the benefit of Major Corson's health came
to California, reaching Pasadena by stage. Major Corson took an active
part in the growth and upbuilding of Pasadena. He was a director of
the public library and otherwise influential in the city's progress. Mrs.
McDonald was educated in Southwest Kansas College at Winfield and
finished her education at St. Margaret's Marlborough School in Los An-
geles. Mrs. McDonald and five children survive Judge McDonald, the
children being Malcolm. Elizabeth, Janet, Joseph and Barbara Anne.
One who knew Judge McDonald well felt that his character and
attitude were best expressed in the well known lines :
"Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by —
They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong
Wise, foolish, so am I. ,^
Then why should L sit in the scorner's seat.
Or hurl the cynic's ban ?
Let me live in my house by che side of the road,
And be a friend to man."
\
W-\LTER H. LuTZ, who came to Los Angeles twenty-five years ago,
probably stands as close to the large financial interests of the city as any
other man, and has enjoyed continued and consecutive advancement in
banking affairs. He is now assistant to the president of the First Na-
tional Bank.
His father was a banker before him, and practically all his own expe-
rience since boyhood has been in that business. He was born at Norris-
town, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1872, son of Harrison M. and Sarah
(High) Lutz. His father died in 1918, and his mother in 1916. Mr.
Lutz received his early education in the grammar and high schools of
his native city, and his first training in banking was in the employ of the
Centennial National Bank of Philadelphia. He went with this institu-
tion not as a favored employe, but as a boy whose advancement de-
pended upon his own merits, and eventually he achieved some con-
siderable degree of trust and responsibility. ^ He was there until he came
to California in 1894. His first position in Los Angeles was with the
National Bank of California as receiving teller. Then, in the spring of
1898, he took a similar post with the First National Bank, and has been
connected with that institution now for over twenty years. Later he
became first paying teller and in 1905 was made auditor of the bank. In
January, 19L9, he was elected to the office of assistant to the president.
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June 15, 1898, Mr. Lutz married Miss Genevieve Church of Port-
land, Oregon. Mr. Lutz is popular in social circles, a member of the
Valley Hunt Club and the Cauldron Club of Pasadena, the Pasadena
Board of Trade and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is a
member of the Non-Denominational Church, and in politics, while nom-
inally a republican, is very likely to put the qualities of the man ahead
of his partisan label.
William H. Fletcher has been a Los Angeles resident over thirty
years, a former real estate and oil operator, and for the past twenty
years has lived at 312 South Westlake avenue, where he built and owns
a beautiful home.
Mr. Fletch.r has had a long and active career, including service as
a Union soldier during the Civil war. He is a veteran of the photo-
graphic art, as an amateur and for commercial purposes. He is familiar
with all improvements in photography from the time of the daguerreo-
type process of the fifties up to the modern complicated technique.
William H. Fletcher was educated in the common scho Is of Lyn-
don, Vermont, and acquired his first knowledge of the photographic busi-
ness in 1857. For a number of years in the East he was in the jewelry
and drug business, conducting the two jointly for eight or ten years,
and later was a druggist exclusively for about fifteen years. For twelve
years he was postmaster at Lyndonville, Vermont, until he was let out
of that ofSce for political reasons at the election of Grover Cleveland.
Mr. Fletcher came to Los Angeles in 1885 with the intention of
establishing a drug business. He found the city amply supplied with
stores of that kind, and for a time he employed his skill as a pho-
tographer, though he never conducted a regular studio or gallery. He
took many pictures which were sold to curio dealers for the tourist trade.
For some five years Mr. Fletcher conducted his ranch at Burbank, and
then became an oil operator under the firm name of Daggett & Fletcher.
They operated in the old Los Angeles field, where they drilled some
thirty wells. Mr. Fletcher several years ago sold all his oil interests. He
has always been a stanch republican and has been a member of the
Masonic Order since 1863. He is also a Knight Templar Mason.
Mr. Fletcher built his residence on South Westlake avenue in 1900.
He is a member of the Automobile Club of Southern California. In
recent years he has been collecting his old photographs of Los Angeles
and vicinity, and the more valuable of them he has transferred to lan-
tern slides, and uses them for the entertainment of his friends and
neighbors. He also supplied many of them to the Los Angeles Evening
Express, which had a special edition m which these old-time views were
reproduced.
LuciEN N. Brunswig. Through his business activities as president
of the Brunswig Drug Company, a Los Angeles concern of thirty-two
years standing, and also because of his widely extended leadership in
war relief measures, particularly the various French organizations,
Lucien N. Brunswig is one of the noted men of California and has had
many rare and interesting experiences and achievements.
The Brunswig Drug Company was founded January 18, 1888, first
under the style of F. W. Braun Company. Mr. Lucien Brunswig and
his then associate, F. W. Braun, became established in Los Angeles at
that time, Mr. Braun becoming manager of the Los Angeles business.
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which was operated partly as a branch of the firm Finlay & Brunswig of
New Orleans. The business was continued under t.iat style until 1907,
when Mr. Brunswig bought the Braun interests and the firm name was
changed to the Brunswig Drug Company. This is one of the largest
wholesale drug houses in the West. It was established on a modest
scale, and through careful, conservative business administration its vol-
ume of business has mounted steadily, until it now totals several millions
yearly, while the business as a whole furnishes employment to three hun-
dred people. There is a branch at San Diego, others at Phoenix and
Tucson, Arizona, and the territory of operation covers California, Ari-
zona, the Mexican Republic, parts of New Mexico, Nevada and Utah,
the Hawaiian Islands and the Orient into Indo-China. The pharma-
ceutical laboratories alone employ more than a hundred, prod.icing chem-
ical products, pharmaceutical, medicinal and toilet preparations, and
every druggist in the Southwest knows the company and its high ideal;
and effective, competent business administration.
In passing it should be noted that the Brunswig Drug Company con-
tributed forty of its best members to the overseas forces, including the
son of the president of the company, who enlisted in the United States
Aviation Corps and served one year in England and France.
It is doubtful if any Californian knows ihe great theater of the west-
ern battle front more intimately than Mr. Brunswig. He was born in
the fortified city of Montmedy, in the valley of the Meuse, thirty miles
from Verdun. All of the battlefield has been covered by him many
times in his younger days with bicycle, and he is familiar with every f"ot
of it. He graduated from the college of Etain, a city six miles from
Verdun, which was blown up in 1914 in the first rush of the Germans
on Verdun, and is now a mass of ruins. The Weovre Valley, so fre-
quently mentioned in war dispatches in earlier years and part of the
American sector in the Argonne campaign, is likewise a familiar haunt
of Mr. Brunswig, being his native heath. He used to study botany and
gather plants there in his college days, years before the Germans began
gathering corpses.
Mr. Brunswig on coming to the United States located at New Or-
leans, and several years later was admitted as a junior partner to th^
great drug house of Finlay & Company, the name being changed to Fin-
lay & Brunswig. It was an extension of the interests of this firm, as
already noted, which brought Mr. Brunswig to Los Angeles. The only
municipal office Mr. Brunswig ever held was as police commissioner of
New Orleans.
However, he has been id?ntified with a number of quasi-public
organizations. For tlie past four years he has led the French relief
measures on the Pacific Coast. In August, 1914; he became actively asso-
ciated with and organized the French Red Cross for t' e states of Cali-
fornia and Arizona, and is active chairman of that bi-anch of the Red
Cross. He is also executive head of the Pacific Coast Division for
Fatherless Children of France Society, and directs the work of that
organization in eleven states, including the Hawaiian Islands. He also
organized the state of California two years since for the American Com-
mittee for Devastated France. He is president of the French Alliance,
president of the France-Amerique Committee, president of the Salon
Francais and formerly served as local director of the California Airei-
icanization Committee. During a visit to Washington some time ago Mr.
Brunswig successfully obtained tonnage to send a relief ship with food
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and clothing to France. This thousand-fon cargo of food donated by
Southern Cahfornia voiced a message which did much to arouse the
spirit of the French civilians behind the lines.
Mr. Brunswig is a member of the California Club, the University
Club, and the Los Angeles Country Club. He married Miss Marguerite
Wogan at New Orleans. She is a daughter of one of the oldest French
families of that city, a lineal descendant of the d'Augustin, governor for
France of the San Domingo and Haiti Islands at the time of the revolu-
tion of the blacks, led by the famous Toussaint Louverture.
Nathaniel Bl.vke Blackstone, the founder, president and gen-
eral manager of the N. B. Blackstone Company until 1918, was born
at Livermore, Maine, January 20, 1843, son of Nathaniel and Mary
(Sawyer) Blackstone. His parents, who spent all their lives in Maine,
were old fashioned New England Christian people. His father was a
farmer. Nathaniel B. was the youngest of nine children, four sons
and five daughters, and is the last survivor. His home and early en-
vironment were calculated to bring out his self reliance and industry.
He left school at the age of seventeen, and at Brockton, Massachusetts,
laid the foundation of his experience in dry goods as an employe of
H. W. Robinson. Five years later he went to Boston, became an em-
ploye of a wholesale dry goods house, and eventually rose to a part-
nership in the firm of Ewing Bros. & Company.
Mr. Blackstone came to Los Angeles in February, 1887, and be-
came associated with his brother-in-law the late J. W. Robinson in
the Boston Store. In 1895 Mr. Blackstone opened a store of his own
under the name N. B. Blackstone Company. As a merchant he has
had several different locations, his first business being on Spring street
near Temple opposite the old Court House. From there he moved to
the corner of Third and Spring in the Douglass Building when it was
first built, next to Broadway between Third and Fourth, and was there
ten years until the handsome new building now known as Blackstone's
was erected and opened on September 20, 1917. Each move being
to secure larger and finer quarters as well as better location for the in-
creased business. Mr. Blackstone continued actively associated with
the affairs of this copipany until 1918, when he sold out his business and
retired after serving fifty-eight years in the dry goods business.
For several years he was a director of the National Bank of Cali-
fornia and now is a director of the Merchants National Bank. He is
a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and in former
years was an active worker and one of the directors of that organiza-
tion. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, of the
National Republican Club of New York City, the ]\Iaine Society of Cali-
fornia, and in the First Congregational church was .a trustee for ten
years, holding that position when the church edifice was built. His home
is at the corner of West Twenty-eighth Street and Orchard Avenue, a
residence which he built twenty-six years ago.
Mr. Blad<stone was as fortunate in his home life as he was in
business. On September 29, 1917, he and his good wife celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary. Their marriage was celebrated at Brock-
ton, Massachusetts, September 29. 1867. The bride was ]\Iiss Louise
Robinson, a daughter of H. W. Robinson, in whose store Mr. Blackstone
had acquired his first business experience. She was a sister of the late J.
W. Robinson, long prominent in Los Angeles mercantile circles. Mrs.
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Blackstone was born at Stow, Massachusetts, and was educated in pub-
lic schools and the Lasell Seminary at Auburndale, Massachusetts,
where she and her husband lived for seventeen years before coming to
California. Mrs. Blackstone died November 25, 1918. While her am-
bition never extended beyond her home, intimate friends and church,
she cultivated many charitable interests, which engaged her time and
means for a mmiber of years. Two children were born to their mar-
riage. The daughter Anne Louise died at the age of eight years. The
son, H. Winthrop Blackstone, was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
For fifteen years he was vice-president of the N. B. Blackstone Com-
pany.
i
John K. Wilson, superintendent of Blackstone's and for thirty-
two years an active business associate of Mr. N. B. Blackstone, may
be said to have begun his Los Angeles career with disappointment and
defeated hopes. Stories of fortunes won overnight in real estate had
lured him from the Middle West, but the tide had turned before he
arrived in Los Angeles in 1887 and with the bursting of the boom he
found it necessary to accommodate his glowing expectations to the
modest rewards of a mercantile clerk.
Mr. Wilson was born on a farm near New Madison, Ohio, Jan-
uary 24, 1858, son of Nathaniel M. and Mary Emily (Rush) Wilson.
His mother is still living in Los Angeles with her son John in good
health at the age of eighty-three and an active member of the Emanuel
Presbyterian church. Nathaniel M. Wilson was for many years a farmer
and stockman in Ohio and played quite an active part in democratic
politics in that state. In 1887 he brought his family to California, living
in Los Angeles three years, and in 1890 located on a three hundred acre
tract in San Diego county. That tract he developed by the planting of
olive trees and gave it the name Olive Hill Ranch. It was the family
home for eleven years, and later the parents returned to Los Angeles
where Nathaniel ^I. Wilson died in 1901 at the age of sixty-nine. He
still owned the ranch at the time of his death. As a stock man he has
specialized in the breeding of Poland China hogs and Durham cattle.
■ John K. Wilson had only the normal opportunities and advantages
of an Ohio country boy. He went to school in the winter, worked on
the farm in summer, and from 1874 until he graduated in 1878 attended
the high school of Greenville, Ohio. Afterwards while learning mer-
chandising he attended a business college in Greenville. Beginning in
1879 he served a three year's apprenticeship in the dry goods store of
George W. Moore in Greenville. The first year he was paid board and
one hundred dollars and his salary was increased a hundred dollars each
year until the end of the apprenticeship. After four years, with a
vision of better things in the West, he moved in 1883 to Southern Kan-
sas. There he became a buyer and shipper of grain. Four years in
that State was a period of many vicissitudes involving grasshoppers,
drought and hot winds. Therefore when he arrived in Los Angeles he
had been well schooled to bear up under the disappointment in wait for
him due to the collapse of the real estate boom. Soon afterwards he
utilized his former training and experience and entered the store of J.
W. Robinson, at that time located on Spring near Templet Street. J. W.
Robinson had as his partner and associate his brother-in-law N. B.
Blackstone. Mr. Wilson spent eight years with the J. W. Robinson
Company. Then he and Mr. Blackstone and C. A. Smith incorporated a
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new business under the title N. B. Blackstone Company, in February,
1896. They occupied the room recently vacated by the J. W. Robinson
Company, who had moved to South Broadway. The Blackstone Com-
pany has followed the southward trend of the city, and during the last
twenty-five years fitted up four stores. In 1917 the company entered
its present quarters at Broadway and Ninth, a building with six floors
and basement and with a hundred thousand square feet of floor space.
As an exclusive shop for all the fine wares comprehended under the term
dry goods, Blackstone's stands pre-eminent on the Pacific Coast. Mr.
Wilson held various positions of responsibility with the J. W. Robinson
Company, and during his association with Mr. Blackstone has been man-
ager and director, was buyer for several departments, and is still a direc-
tor in the company as well as superintendent of the business in general.
Mr. Wilson is also owner of some valuable industrial property at
Eighth and Santa Fe. In politics he was reared a democrat, but has
been a republican in national affairs since 1896. For many years he
has been a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and Chamber of
Commerce.
At Greenville, Ohio, September 3, 1884, he married Miss Carohne
Stephens, daughter of Martin Franklin and Alvira (Leibee) Stephens.
Her father was a dry goods merchant, and for many years one of the
influential republicans of the State of Ohio. In the Stephens family
were six children, five daughters and one son. The son is now Governor
of California, Hon. William Dennison Stephens, whose individual biog-
raphy is found on other pages of this publication. Mrs. Wilson is a
member of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. Their only son
and child is Weston Stephens Wilson. He is a graduate of Leland
Stanford University with the class of 1913 and is unmarried. His
special talent has been music, and he is both a composer of music and a
writer of operas and songs, much of his work having earned national
fame. He is a member of the firm Daniels & Wilson, music publishers
of San Francisco and New York, and he divides his time largely be-
tween those two cities. \
Mr. John K. Wilson was one of seven children, five sons and two
daughters, all of whom reached mature years. He is the oldest of the
four still living. His only sister is Mrs. James P. Martin, of Corvallis,
Oregon. His two brothers are Charles A., who has charge of the Uni-
versity Branch postofiice at Los Angeles, and N. E., a Los Angeles grocer.
His brother Dr. A. P. Wilson, youngest of the family, became a promin-
ent physician in Los Angeles and was accidentally shot in July, 1916.
while camping in the high Sierras, near Fresno.
Thomas Lee Woolwine. The key to the efficiency of courts and
of govemment generally is the efficiency of the offlcer delegated by law
to prosecute the law's violations. That officer in Los Angeles County is
the district attorney. Friends of good and efficient government have
had many reasons to congratulate themselves upon the presence of
Thomas Lee Woolwine as district attorney of Los Angeles County.
Mr. Woolwine has been an active member of the Los Angeles bar
for over twenty years. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, October
31, 1874, son of Snmuel Shanklin and Sally (Shute) Woolwine. He
was educated in public and private schools and received his L. L. B.
degree from Cumberland University in Tennessee in 1903, and a s'milar
degree from the Columbian (now George Washington) University in
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1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1899, and the same year began
practice at Los Angeles. He first gained distinction in public affairs as
deputy city attorney at Los Angeles in 1907-08, and the following year
\yas deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County and prosecuting at-
torney of Los Angeles. He has been district attorney of Los Angeles
County since 1915. In 1910 he was the nominee of both the democratic
and good government parties for the office of district attorney.
The vigor of his efforts in law enforcement was first made appar-
ent by his prosecution and conviction of keepers of bucket shops, a strict
enforcement of excise laws, and he was also the officer primarily respon-
sible for bringing the charges of vice protection against the mayor and
police commission and other officers of the city, resulting in resignations
and in the "recall" of the mayor and election of his successor. This event
widely commented upon by the press at the time, was the first "recall"
invoked against such an officer in the United States.
Other notable achievements also were his prosecutions of David
Caplan and M. H. Schmidt, who were identified with the nation-wide
dynamite conspiracy and who were convicted of having had a hand in
the destruction of the Times Building in 1910. Mr. Woolwine also prose-
cuted and secured the conviction of twenty-one large baking corpora-
tions and individuals for conspiracy to stifle competition in the sale of
bread. His investigation of the sugar beet situation in California brought
about the appointment of a commission by the National Food Adminis-
tration to rectify then existing conditions which were oppressive to the
beet growers and consequently to the consumers themselves. During
the last two or three years the activities of his office have been forcibly
directed toward the suppression of profiteering and the prosecution of
members of the I. W. W. and other treasonable organizations.
While his official record has been marked by due aggressiveness, it
has also been distinguished not less by humanitarian methods. Mr.
Woolwine was recently a candidate for governor of California on the
democratic ticket, being the only aspirant for that office who has always
been a democrat. He is a democrat in national affairs, but, as his record
shows, has been independent and non-partisan so far as local questions
of law and order are concerned.
Mr. Woolwine is a man of literary tastes and has given his wide
experiences appropriate setting in various writings. He is author of
"In the Valley of the Shadows," a novel published in 1909. He is ;i
member of the Los Angeles Bar Association, is past president of the
local alumni of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and is a member of the Wil-
shire Country and University Clubs. His offices are in the Hall of
Records and his home at 1040 Kensington Road. November 7, 1900, he
married Alma Foy of Los Angeles.
Frederick C. Langdon is a hard working member of the Los An-
geles City Council, has spent a number of years in Southern California,
was formerly a dentist by profession, and has acquired numerous private
interests which have engaged his time when not in the service of the
public.
Dr. Langdon was born in Rock County, Wisconsin, February 28,
1868, a son of Chauncey and Jerusha (Sprague) Langdon. He acquired
a liberal education, beginning in the district schools of Wisconsin, attend-
ing the State Normal School at Whitewater, Wisconsin, and at the age
of twenty-twO entered the University of Iowa. He took a three years'
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course in two years, and ^t the end of that time passed a successful
examination before the State Board of Dentistry-. Dr. Langdon prac-
ticed in Jones County, Iowa, eight years, until failing health compelled
him to abandon his business and come to Los Angeles. Here, after re^
newing his studies and graduating from the dental department of the
University of Southern California in 1901, he resumed practice and was
so engaged until 1909, when he again had to retire on account of ill
health. During the following two years he became interested in and
was a director of the Long Beach Salt Company, manufacturers of salt.
Dr. Langdon was first elected a member of the Los Angeles City Council
in 1912. He was re-elected three times. Then, after an interval, he
was again chosen a member of the Council in 1919. In the meantime
he has looked after his extensive personal interests. He is a Scottish
Rite Mason, an Elk, a member of the Union League Club, City Club,
is a republican in politics and a member of the First Congregational
Church.
At Oxford Junction, Iowa, August 6, 1895, he married Rena M.
Carter. They have three children: Lucy A., the oldest, a native of
Oxford Junction, Iowa, is a graduate of the Westlake School for Girls
of Los Angeles, and is also a graduate of Stanford University. Carter
H., who was born at Oxford Junction, October 3, 1898, is a graduate of
the Los Angeles Polytechnic High School and is employed by the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance Company. The youngest is Mary A., a student
in the Los Angeles High School.
William Dennison Stephens resigned as member of Congress
and was appointed lieutenant governor July 21, 1916, and was sworn
in as chief executive March 15, 1917. At the state-wide election in
November, 1918, he was elected governor by a majoritv exceeding
132,000, for the term ending January, 1923.
Governor Stephens, who came to Los Angeles in 1887, was born
at Eaton, Preble county. Ohio, December 26, 1859, son of Martin F.
and Alvira (Leibee) Stephens. His father served as a member of the
Ohio Legislature in 1859, and during the period of the Civil war was
county treasurer of Preble county. William Dennison Stephens gradu-
ated from the public schools of Eaton in May, 1876. and for several
years was a teacher and law student. While well grounded in knowledge
of the law, Governor Stephens never took examination for admission
to the bar until July 2, 1919. At that date he was admitted to the bar
by the Appellate Court of Sacramento, and now has the privilege of
practice in all the courts of California. After teaching country school
for three years Mr. Stephens from 1880 to 1887 was a surveyor and
engaged in railroad civil engineering in Ohio. Indiana, Iowa and Louisi-
ana. After locating at Los Angeles in 1887 he engaged in commercial
business as manager and traveling salesman from 1888 to 1902. From
1902 to 1909 he was engaged in business under the firm name of Carr
& Stephens, wholesale and retail grocers at Los Angeles.
Governor Stephens had been a successful business man many years
before he entered public life. He was elected a member of the Board
of Education of Los Angeles in 1906. serving for two years. In 1907
he was president of the Chamber of Commerce, and was a director of that
body for many years. In 1909 he was mayor of Los Angeles, and in
1910 president of the Los Angeles City Water Commission and a
member of the advisory commission for the building of the Los Angeles
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aqueduct. He was chairman of the Harbor Committee of the Lps
Angeles Chamber of Commerce for one or two years. For eleven
years he was a major of the National Guard of California, and was on
active duty at San Francisco during the earthquake and fire of 1906.
In 1910 Mr. Stephens was elected to represent the Seventh Cali-
fornia District in the 62nd Congress, taking his seat in 1911. He was
re-elected for the Tenth District (part of the former Ninth District)
to the 63rd and 64th Congresses, and served until 1916, when he re-
signed and was appointed lieutenant-governor of California. On March
15, 1917, Mr. Stephens became governor of California for the remainder
of the term ending January 1, 1919.
In 1918 he was regularly elected governor and was inaugurated in
January, 1919.
The State administration of California during the critical period
of the war fully deserved the admiration and stanch support given it by
all substantial and sincere patriots. Governor Stephens is one of the
really able and strong men in the public life of the nation today. While
in Congress he was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He
is ex-officio president of the Board of Regents of the University of
California at Berkeley, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.
Governor Stephens was a leader in the progressive movement in
California. He is a prominent Mason, having been elected a member
of the 33rd, honorary degree of the Scottish Rite in 1908. In the same
year he served as grand commander of the Knights Templar of Cali-
fornia and in 1904 was potentate of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a
charter member of the Red Cross of Constantine, and a member of the
Fraternal Brotherhood. He is affiliated with the California Club and
Sunset Club at Los Angeles.
June 17, 1891, at Poway in San Diego county, Mr. Stephens mar-
ried Flora Rawson. Their only daughter, Barbara, was married in
1912 to Lieutenant Randolph T. Zane, V. S. M. C, who rose to the
rank of major, and was -cited for bravery and given the Distinguished
Service Cross in the World War. Major Zane died in France, October
24, 1918, as a result of wounds received at Belleau Wood. Marjorie
Zane, the five-year old granddaughter of Governor Stephens, christened
the destroyer Zane, named in honor of her father, Major Zane, which
was launched at Mare Island in August, 1919. Mrs. Barbara Stephens
Zane, daughter of Governor Stephens, also had the honor of christening
the United States battleship California, built at Mare Island and launched
in November, 1919.
Harold Baxter Broadwell was one of the most popular young
officios of the county of Los Angeles, and while engaged in the per-
formance of duty as a motorcycle policeman was killed in an automobile
collision November 9, 1919.
Mr. Broadwell was born in San Francisco, September 22, 1884, son
of William B. and Alice E. Broadwell. His grandmother, Mrs. Mar-
garet Hayes, who lives at 1200 East Forty-fifth street, in Los Angeles,
was a Southern women and a nurse in the Confederate army during
the Civil war.
Harold Baxter Broadwell was educated in Los Angeles and San
Francisco, and as a boy chose to be independent of family circumstances
and make his own way in the world. He supplemented his advantages
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in the public schools by study at night and in correspondence schools.
His first employment was with the Wells Fargo & Company, and later
he was employed by the county as deputy sheriff and from that was
given his duties as motorcycle policeman.
Mr. Broadwell married Miss Elizabeth A. Dodson, daughter of
J. G. Dodson. Mrs. Broadwell is a native daughter of California, and
her parents were also born in the state. Her mother was born at the
old Mission, El Monte. Mr. Broadwell leaves two children: Brewster
Baxter Broadwell and Donald H. Broadwell.
The late Mr. Broadwell in his brief life evinced a genius at good
fellowship and gained a host of warm and admiring friends. He was a
member of the local chapter of the Native Sons and was also a Mason,
and his funeral was held under Masonic auspices, also being attended
by all the other seven motor policemen employed by the county.
Moses Nathan Avicrv, president and a director of the Guaranty Trust
& Savings Bank, is one of the best known bankers in Southern Cali-
fornia, and is looked to for advice and suggestions in business matters
by thousands of Los Angeles residents, especially among those substan-
tial citizens of long residence who have been acquainted with him so-
cially and through business for so many years.
For "Dr. Avery," as he is known to his friends, though a graduate
physician, was one of the founders, in 1890, of the banking institution
which has now become through growth and expansion the "Guaranty
Bank." He has been continually connected with it ever since ; for many
years its executive head ; and its history has been one of steady, con-
servative growth in resources and influence, until now it is one of the
important banks of the Pacific Coast, with aggregate resources of more
than thirty-four million dollars (March, 1920), rendering through its
Trust and other departments a complete departmental banking service.
Dr. Avery was born at Lyndon, Washtenaw County, Michigan, a
son of Nathan and Matilda (Rockwell) Avery. His father, who was a
native of Elmira, New York, came to Southern Michigan in 1832, being
one of the pioneers in that state. Dr. Avery is a descendant of the
Groton Averys, a noted family of New England, and one of Dr. Avery's
kinsmen, Elroy M. Avery of Cleveland, has compiled and published the
family genealogy and history under the title. "The Groton Avery Clan."
Moses Nathan Avery finished his high school course at Chelsea,
Michigan, in 1875, and at the age of seventeen taught his first term of
district school. School teaching in winter and farming in the summer
were the stepping stones by which he reached his profession. He con-
tinued this varied occupation until he entered the University of Michigan,
in 1879, and was graduated M. D. in 1881.
He practiced medicine at Niles, Michigan, for eight years.
Dr. Avery is a republican in politics, a Presbyterian, a member of
the California Club, and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, July
14, 1880, at Waterloo, M^ichigan, he married Sarah Elizabeth Gorton,
daughter of Aaron T, Gorton. Dr. and Mrs. Aver\^ have two children,
Florence Lucile and Dr. Lewis Gorton Avery.
William Richard Dickinson, a resident of Los Angeles since
1904, is president of the Dickinson Company at 300 South Main Street,
one of the most prosperous retail drug stores in the city. Mr. Dickin-
son has been a constructive factor in the drug business in southern
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California. He helped organize and was the first president of the Los
Angeles Retail Druggists Association, and has also served as president
of the California State Pharmaceutical Association. These organiza-
tions have perfomied a very useful part not only in promoting the mu-
tual welfare of the drug business but especially in improving the spirit
of friendly co-operation between business competitors in the same city.
Mr. Dickinson was born at Carrollton, Missouri, October 27, 1862,
and came to California from the Black Hills, South Dakota. His par-
ents wefe Richard W. and Laura (Kinchelo) Dickinson. His father
represented a New York family, while the Kinchelos were Virginians,
originally from Parkersburg. William R. Dickinson acquired his early
education in the public schools of Kansas City, Missouri, and began
learning the drug business there in 1875. In 1879 he went out to the
famous Black Hills gold mining district, locating in Deadwood and
Central City of Dakota Territory, and after working in a drug store
four years, bought out a business and was one of the leading retail drug-
gists of the Black Hills, South Dakota, until 1904. His business home
for a number of years was in Central City, and he was active in all local
enterprises, and was the first democratic postmaster, under the Cleve-
land administration, of the Territory of Dakota.
After his store was burned in Central City in 1887, he engaged in
the wholesale and retail drug business at Lead, South Dakota, and estab-
lished stores in the various cities of the Black Hills, remaining there
until he came to Los Angeles in 1904. He was largely interested in
gold mining, and was connected with the late Senator Hearst's Mining
Investments in the town of Lead, where the famous Homestake mine
is" located. At Lead he exerted his influence in behalf of every public
spirited "movement for the upbuilding of the city from a log cabin
mining town to a modern city of fifteen thousand. He was personally
known to every man, woman and child in that section.
Mr. Dickinson came from a family of old-line democrats. He was
chairman of the Democratic Central Committee for several years, until
Bryan made his first campaign in 1896 on free silver. He resigned from
the Democratic Central Committee and organized the Sound Money
Democrats of the Black Hills, which later on became a state organi-
zation which helped to elect the late President William McKinley, and
since that time has been a stanch progressive republican. He has always
been active in politics though never to promote his individual candidacy
for ofifice.
In 1891 he joined the Masonic Order at Lead, and was advanced
rapidly in the honors of the craft. He served as eminent commander
of Dakota Commandery No. 1, K. T., as illustrious potentate of Naja
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of the Black Hills, and master of the Kodash
Black Hills Consistory for nine years. In 1892 he was Knighted as com-
mander of the court of Honor of the Scottish Rite, 32nd degree, South-
ern jurisdiction. Since coming to California he has transferred his
Masonic activities and membership to the local bodies of Los Angeles.
Mr. Dickinson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union
League Qub, is a charter member of the Temple Baptist church of Los
Angeles, and a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Au-
tomobile Club of Southern California, and member, as well as secre-
tary, of the Republican State Central Committee of California in 1919-20.
Mrs. Dickinson has been a member of the Ebell Club since 1904.
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August 20, 1890, at Snohomish, Washington, he married Miss
Celestia Warson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Warson. Her
father was a soldier and officer in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Dick-
inson have one daughter. Laurel, who was born in South Dakota. She
is a graduate of the Los Angeles High School, also of the State Nor-
mal School, and finished her education in the Bradford Academy at
Haverhill, Massachusetts.
i
Frank A. W.\thrs has been connected with the Los Angeles & Salt
Lake Railroad for nearly twenty years as its general right of way
and tax agent, and by profession is a lawyer.
Mr. Waters, who came to Los Angeles more than twenty-five
years ago, was born at Chicago, July 22, 1877, a son of Asa K. and
Janet (Hendry) Waters. His mother was born at Forres, Scotland.
Asa Knowlton Waters was born at Halifax, Vermont, served as a Union
soldier in the 11th New York Cavalry, known as Scott's Nine Hundred,
and afterward spent his active business career as a contractor and build-
er at Chicago, where he married. There were two children, Frank A.
and Miss Crystal. The daughter is a talented singer, and used her
talents to good advantage in entertaining the American troops in France,
Italy, Germany and Austria for eighteen months during and following
the war.
Frank A. Waters was nineteen years of age when he came to Los
Angeles. For several years he was in the building and contracting
business, after which he spent two years in Washington in Government
service. In 1901 he entered the service of the Los Angeles and Salt
Lake Railroad. He has been the head of its land and tax department
since 1903. While performing those duties he also studied \a\\ and was
admitted to the California bar in January, 1910. Mr. Waters has been
for many years a member of the Union League and Jonathan Clubs, and
is at present a member of the California Bar Association, the Automobile
Club and the Wilshire Country Club.
April 25, 1905, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Martha B. Bohan,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wis-
consin, has served as president of the Badger Club of Los Angeles, an
organization of Wisconsin women. She was its president for two
terms and has also been vice president and secretary of the Women's
University Club of Los Angeles. Much of her time during the recent
war was given to the Red Cross and other auxiliary work. Her mother
is Elizabeth Baker Bohan, a prominent member of the literary colony
of Los Angeles, noted as an author and writer of fiction and a student
of sociological problems. Mr. and Mrs. Waters have two children, both
born in this city. Elizabeth Janet and Knowlton.
John Kahn. A resident of Los Angeles thirty years, the late
John Kahn, who died March 20, 1919, enjoyed that distinctive success
of the man whose business experience and personal influence increase
and expand with the passing years, so that the place he filled in a large
city involved the fortunes and the good will and friendship of hundreds
of thousands of persons.
John Kahn was born in New York City in 1862, one of a family
of nine children. All these children possessed special talents in music,
and while his life was an extremely busy one, immersed in practical
affairs, music always made a strong appeal to the late Mr. Kahn. His
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sister, Mrs. Albert Elkus, was for many years president and is now presi-
dent emeritus of the Saturday Morning Club of Sacramento, one of
the largest and strongest musical organizations in California. Her
son Albert is a composer of musical settings for poems which inspire
him, his compositions being scored for the piano.
John Kahn was educated in New York, and when about seventeen
years of age came to California and became associated with his brothers
in a dry goods store at Oakland. The firm of Kahn Brothers conducted
the largest business of its kind in the city. Ten years later Mr. John
Kahn, leaving the Oakland firm came to Los Angeles and opened what
was known as the "Lace House," at first in the Nadeau Hotel Building
and later in the Bryson Block. About that time he married Miss Ger-
trude Behrendt, daughter of Mr. Casper Behrendt, a California pioneer,
owner of extensive walnut groves, orange orchards and ranch prop-
erty, and a well remembered factor in the upbuilding of southern Cali-
fornia. Her mother was Hulda Behrendt, sister of Kasper Cohn, and
was noted for her broad philanthropies. She died in Los Angeles in
1917.
About 1897 Mr. Kahn sold out his lace business and helped organ-
ize the Kahn-Beck Cracker, Candy and Macaroni Company. He was
active in this firm, one of the owners, and developed it to one of the
leading concerns of the kind in the west.
He possessed the broad character of the successful business man
and public spirited citizen and home lover, and much of his effort, espe-
cially in later years, was expended in directions of practical charity.
His name was associated in some important capacity with nearly every
Fiesta committee, public enterprise and movement for the betterment
of the city and the entertainment of its people. He liberally bestowed
his time among the various charitable organizations with which he
was connected, and did mucli charity that the world never heard of. He
was one of the founders and president of the Jewish Orphans Home,
was a former director of the Merchants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion, a director of the B'nai B'rith Synagogue, member of the Los An-
geles Athletic Club, San Gabriel Country Club, for seventeen years was
president of the Concordia Club, and was a Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner. In politics he was a republican, and constantly exercised his
influence for good government both local and national.
Considering his achievements and what he stood for in Los An-
geles for many years, he well deserved the tribute penned by a close
friend in the following words :
"When John Kahn was carried to his eternal resting place, the
heavens wept. They wept for us who knew him and loved him. They
wept for the earth that can ill afford to spare such a man.
"Who that knew him will ever forget him? His name will go down
to the children and the children's children. And they shall know that
God sent us an angel as he sent angels to the generations of old to bless
us and enrich our lives. It was something to have felt the tenderness
and love of that man. Such a smile as he possessed was verily a halo.
In a world that is filled to the brim with bitterness and conflict, this
man came to give us strength and courage, to fill us with hope and trust
in God and man."
Mr. Kahn was survived by Mrs. Kahn and two children. Mrs.
Kahn, who is a graduate of the Lake School, a fashionable boarding
school of San Francisco, has long been prominent in Los Angeles club
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life, and is one of the devoted students of Shakespeare in the city. She
is affiliated with the Galpin Shakespeare Club, the Ebell Club, Friday-
Morning Club and was a leader and founder of Lou V. Chapin Cur-
rent Events Club. Mrs. Kahn's daughter, Lillian May, is a beautiful
young girl, whose accomplishments as a musician and dancer are well
known. The son, Ivan B. Kahn, was one of the very first young men
from Los Angeles to enlist when America entered the war with Ger-
many. He served as a corporal with the 54th Artillery in France, and
had returned to Camp Kearny just a short time before his father's death.
He was a member of the Kahn-Beck Company, and has also followed
the worthy example of his father by activity in various philanthropies.
Niow in conjunction with his accomplished wife, whose maiden name
was Frances Guihan, he is writing scenarios for the various moving
picture productions.
Edward A. Clampitt, who died at his home in Los Angeles Septem-
ber 25, 1919, had for several years been the largest independent indi-
vidual oil operator and owner of oil property in California. In his death
the oil industry lost its best friend, was the opinion of his associates and
friends, who had regarded him as an able counselor in all matters affect-
ing the general welfare of the petroleum industry. He was a man of
strong friendship, was a vigorous fighter for the rights of his friends, as
well as his own, and no man could have done more for the promotion of
the legislation for oil interests and oil wells. Mr. Clampitt's holdings in
Los Angeles and Orange Counties and in Bakerfield were of considerable
area.
He was born in Macon County. Illinois, December 14, 1868, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clampitt, who are still living in Los Angeles. Ed-
ward A. Clampitt came to Los Angeles in 1888, and from that time until
a few days before his death was continuously engaged in some phase
of the oil business. He was an oil driller, and helped bring in some of
the greatest oil fields in the Southwest. Among his activities were the
operation of about forty wells in the old Los Angeles city field. For
many years he was a director of the Columbia Oil Producing Company,
and was organizer and owner of the E. A. Clampitt Company of Los
Angeles. Only a brief time before his death he was appointed counsellor
of the American Petroleum Institute. He had some several hundred
acres in the Newhall District, where many wells are operated.
Mr. Clampit{ worked very hard, but enjoyed each day of life as he
lived it. He liked work and he also threw himself with enthusiasm into
his play and recreation. He was devoted to his family and home and he
exhibited a broad interest in the general welfare. While he was a mem-
ber of the city council at Los Angeles he did much to give employment
to the unemployed, and in the general industrial organization under his
immediate supervision he sought constantlv to extend better pay and
better working conditions to his men. While he was what might be
called a practical business man, Mr. Clampitt long recognized those
forces and influences that are classified as spiritual. He understood
better than most men some of the spiritual conditions underlying the
problems of economic unrest. A short time before his death, in a con-
versation with his pastor, Rev. Mr. Monkman, Mr. Clampitt expressed
his belief that the world restorative must be supplied by the churches in
the spirit of brotherly love, one of their foundation principles, the prac-
tice of which would serve better than anything else to stabilize humanity
during the process of reconstruction.
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Mr. Clampitt was elected a member of the City Council in 1906 and
filled that office for three years. In respect for his public services, the
city government of Los Angeles made special recognition at the time of
his funeral, which was very largely attended by his multitude of friends,
including bankers, lawyers and nearly all the memhers of the city govern-
ment.
Genuine grief at his passing by strong men, and later many letters
of condolence and expression of personal loss came from distant points,
and numerous newspapers over the country also paid tribute to the pass-
ing of a good friend and upright man. His funeral was preached by his
friend and pastor. Rev. Dr. Locke of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Rev. Mr. Monkman of the Union Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal Church. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the
Chamber of Mines and Oils, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, th.' Elks,
tlie Masons, and the Knights of Pythias.
The late Mr. Clampitt married Miss Margaret M. Wright. Mrs.
Clampitt and two children survive, Leah Margaret and Barbara Hallam
Clampitt. Mrs. Clampitt, who has long been prominent socially in Los
Angeles, is a daughter of Herman and Nancy (Hallam) Wright. Both
parents died in the East. Mrs. Clampitt was born in Livingston County,
Illinois. Her father was a merchant and for many years conducted a
hotel at Washington, Pennsylvania. It is recorded that this hostelry was
the gathering place for all the best people of the historic section of
Pennsylvania in which they lived. Epecially on "court days" the city of
Washington was crowded with people from the surrounding districts
and the best county families would dine and meet socially in the "Hotel
Court." Mrs. Clampitt, through her mother, is descended from the dis-
tinguished Hallam family, originally of Windsor, England, many of
whose members have gained distinction in art and letters. Mrs. Clam-
pitt's ancestors were also early Americans. Her Great-grandfather
Hallam built the first theater in j'hiladelphia. Her father was a member
of the prominent Wright family of Maryland, e.Ktensive land owners,
who prior to the Revolution settled around Baltimore and Hagerstown.
Mrs. Clampitt was educated in the public schools of Kansas and the
Normal University of Salina, Kansas. She has been a member of the
Ebell Club of Los Angeles since 1904, the Wednesday Morning Club
since 1902, and for a number of years was a member of the Averill
Club and was one of the organizers of the literary La Camarada Club.
During the period of the war she was chairman of the Food Commit-
tee in her precinct and was active in sugar distribution.
Mrs. Clampitt's parents had a number of children, but Mrs. Clampitt
and her sister, Mrs. Rae Johnson, alone reside in Los Angeles. Rea
Wright married Harry T. Johnson, who for years had been a close per-
sonal friend and business associate of Mr. Clampitt and is now general
manager of all the Clampitt properties. Mrs. Rae Johnson during the
war was active in united war work and Liberty Loan campaigns, serving
as chairman of the committee in her precinct, her home being precinct
headquarters. She has always taken much interest in politics, especially
since suffrage was conferred upon the women of California. She was
for a time a school teacher and is a member of the Ebell Club, and with
her sister. Mrs. Clampitt. helped organize the La Comarada Club. Mrs.
Johnson and her husband were actively connected with Mr. Clampitt's
work and Mr. Johnson was in charge of the development and operation
of the holdings of Mr. Clampitt in the Newhall district. Mrs. Clampitt
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and Mrs. Johnson all their lives have been very close and intimate in
their interests and activities.
Abel Stevens Halsted, a prominent lawyer, member of the Cali-
fornia bar for quarter of a century, has been on the legal staff of the
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company since its organization,
and is now general counsel for the entire system.
He was born at Mamaroneck, New York, August 20, 1870, son
of Samuel Martin and Ida Russell (Stevens) Halsted. In 1876, when
he was a boy six years old, his parents moved to California and located
at San Gabriel, at what is now Alhambra. Samuel M. Halsted died
there, and the old home is now occupied by bis widow and a daughter.
A. S. Halsted attended public schools at San Gabriel and Los An-
geles, graduating from high school in the latter city in 1889. He then
took up the study of law and was admitted to the California bar in 1893,
and since that year his work has been at Los Angeles, and he has pur-
sued an undeviating career as a lawyer, never seeking or acquiring im-
portant outside interests. He became associated with the law depart-
ment of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company at the time
of its organization in 1901, and was the first general attorney for Cali-
fornia, serving later as assistant general counsel, and since April 25,
1911, as general counsel. He is also a representative of the legal inter-
ests for a number of other corporations.
Mr. Halstead is a member of the Episcopal church and a republican
in politics. His other social connections are with the California Club,
Midwick Country Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, Jona-
than Club, Sunset Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Val-
ley Hunt Club of Pasadena, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Cali-
fornia Bar Association and American Bar Association.
May 27, 1897, at San Francisco, Mr. Halsted married Eleanor
Hall, whose father, the late Rev. Wyllys Hall, was for many years rec-
tor of All Saints Church at Pasadena. Mrs. Plalsted was born in Ohio,
and received her education in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Halsted have
one son, A. S., Jr., born at Pasadena.
Cornelius Cole. If all the epochs and series of events and de-
velopments in which Cornelius Cole participated as an actor or witness
were combined in logical sequence the story would be fairly representa-
tive of the history of California from the time of the American occu-
pation to the present. It is necessary to emphasize with new vitality
the old phrase "Grand Old Man" when speaking of Cornelius Cole. In
September, 1919, his many friends and relatives gathered to congratu-
late Mr. Cole on his ninety-seventh birthday anniversary. To live
ninety-seven years and still retain mental and physical faculties and
profess an enjoyment of life is of itself a remarkable distinction. But
Mr. Cole has come to old age with that honor which represents long
and faithful service to the state and nation, and he has been an asso-
ciate and friend of all the great men produced by California, himself
being not least among California's great men.
Cornelius Cole was born at Lodi in Seneca county. New York, Sep-
tember 17, 1822, a son of David and Rachel (Townsend) Cole. He rep-
resented substantial stock, with American traditions of education firmly
implanted in the family creed. He attended public schools, the Ovid
Academy, the Lima Seminary, Geneva College one year, and in 1847
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graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He studied law
in the office of Seward, Morgan & Blatchford at Auburn, New York, and
was admitted to the New York bar by the Supreme Court on May 1,
1848. There was no lack of opportunity for the young man of ambi-
tion. The war with Mexico had recently closed, and the world was
stirred with the news of gold discoveries on the Pacific coast. Cornelius
Cole soon determined to join that tide of restless adventurers bound
for the gold coast. He was a member of a party of seven which outfitted
and started from the Missouri River and crossed the plains and was
the first to arrive at Sutter's Fork in the season of 1849. For a year he
gave little thought to practicing law, and busied himself with the varied
experiences of mining. In 1850 he formed a partnership at San Fran-
cisco with James Pratt, but the following year moved to Sacramento
and for ten years was a man of prominence in the State capital.
Cornelius Cole has been frequently credited with the distinction
as the founder of the republican party in California. During 1856
he was editor of the Daily and Weekly Sacramento Times, the first
republican paper in that city. In that capacity he was able to throw
a powerful influence in behalf of the newly organized party, then mak-
ing its first national campaign. He served as the California member
of the National Republican Committee from 1856 to 1864. While at
Sacramento he became interested in politics, served as district attorney,
being elected in 1858, 1859 and 1860. Mr. Cole has also been called
the Civil' war congressman from California. He was elected in 1862
to the 38th Congress, serving from 1863 to 1865. At that time Cali-
fornia had only three congressmen. He is one of the very last survivors
of the Congress which was in session during the closing years of the
great Civil war. Senator Cole has many interesting and vivid memories
of President Lincoln. Following his term in Congress he was chosen
from California to the United States Senate, and sat in that body from
1866 to 1873. During his term in the Senate he was chairman of the
committee on appropriations. Mr. Cole is the oldest living ex-United
States Senator.
Senator Cole in 1880 removed to Los Angeles, and has been an
honored member of the bar of that city for nearly forty years. For
a number of years he was senior member of Cole & Cole, until the death
of his son and partner, Willoughby Cole, in 1912. Senator Cole still
maintains an office and might be properly called an active member of the
California bar.
On January 6, 1853, Cornelius Cole married at San Francisco Olive
Colegrove. She was born at Ithaca, New York, not far from the home
of her husband at Lodi. Four years after he left the east to seek home
and fortune in California she followed him by way of the Isthmus
of Panama, and they were married immediately after her arrival at San
Francisco. Mrs. Cole shared with the late Mrs. Phoebe Hearst the
honor of being California's best known woman. She had been a resi-
dent of Los Angeles for thirty-seven years and had lived in California
for sixty-five years. She died at the family residence at Colegrove near
Los Angeles, August 18, 1918, at the age of eighty-five. The family
estate of Colegrove was named in her honor by Senator Cole. She was
one of the first members of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles,
was also a member of the Hollywood Woman's Club, and one of her
interests for many years was a community library service maintained
near Colegrove. Colegrove is part of a five hundred acre ranch which
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Mr. Cole received as a fee for getting the title of the Le Brea Rancho
confirmed by the U. S. Supreme Court. Colegrove is now a part of Holly-
wood.
Senator Cole credits his long years of splendid health to constant
activity and a determination to get happiness from every passing hour.
In later years he has found his chief happiness in his family, consist-
ing of more than twenty children and grandchildren.
It is a matter of interest to note that while Senator Cole was
identified with the founding of the republican party in 1856, Mrs. Cole
was a woman delegate from California to the last national convention
of that party in Chicago in 1916.
Senator and Mrs. Cole had nine children, seven of whom are still
living. There were five boys and four girls, Frederick died October,
1873, 3 j'ears old : Willoughby Cole, who was the third in age died Oc-
tober 10, 1912, while in the midst of a busy career as a lawyer and one
of the most highly regarded citizens of Los Angeles. The living chil-
dren are, Mrs. Brown, widow of William V. H. Brown, a resident of
Colegrove ; Seward Cole, of Los Angeles ; Mrs. Waring, widow of Lieut.
Howard S. Waring, of the U. S. Navy; Mrs. McLoughlin, widow of
James G. McLoughlin, of New York ; Schuyler Cole of Los Angeles :
Mrs. Jones, wife of Reginald H. Jones, of Hollywood, and George T.
Cole, of Los Angeles.
Mae Shumway Enderlv. During the last ten or twelve years Mae
Shumway Enderly has entertained and instructed literally thousands of
audiences as a dramatic reader. The highest encomiums of critical and
exacting tastes have been passed upon her work. In this high tide of
her fame and general appreciation" of her talents it is instructive to go
back some years and note how she found her vocation by the process of
unaided self-expression. As a girl she lived in an artistically sterile en-
vironment, and she found her inspiration within herself. That probably
accounts for the naturalness which is one of her chief charms.
Miss Mae Shumway was born at Galesburg, Illinois. Her ancestry
goes back in an unbroken line to the noted Shumway family of Massa-
chusetts. The Shumways, when they came to America, about 1660, with
the French Huguenots, the name being spelled Chamoise. Later genera-
tions spelled it Chamwa, and finally Shumway. There were Shumways
who distinguished themselves in King Philip's war, and they were also
among the Minute Men who rallied to the cause of independence at
the beginning of the Revolution, and these patriotic traditions found ex-
pression again when Mrs. Enderly, during the late war, gave a large
part of her time to entertainment work in army camps, and also in the
fact that her only son won merited distinction in the United States Navy.
Her early school education was acquired at New Windsor, Illinois,
where her father was a merchant. Later the family moved to Nebraska,
where she taught school. There were no inspired features in any of those
environments, but she had a love for music and other forms of expres-
sion that enabled her to utilize even the most meager opportunities. While
in Nebraska she married, Mr. Enderly being a merchant in that state.
Two children were born to them, Richard Curtis Enderly and Vineta
Grace Enderly.
When the daughter was six months old Mr. Enderly sold his busi-
ness and came to California. California had been their land of dreams
for years, and they realized one of their greatest ambitions when they
came here. Accompanying them was Mrs. Enderly's widowed mother.
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The first year they Hved at Long Beach, moving to Riverside, where the
little daughter died. After the great grief at this loss had somewhat
subsided, Mrs. Enderly sought new interests, and began the serious
study of physical culture, voice culture and dramatic reading. With
improved health, she found the new work absorbing all her enthusiasm,
and continued her studies at Los Angeles and later went to New York,
where she entered the Frohman School of Expression. From there
she was almost immediately booked by an Eastern bureau for chautauqua
and lyceum work, and her success from the beginning has been phe-
nomenal. Mrs. Enderly is a woman of natural charm and attractive
personality, keen intellectual insight, astonishing power of memory and
dramatic interpretation, and possesses both the power of detachment and
sympathy which makes her dramatic readings true work of art. Lyceum
managers have long regarded Mrs. Enderly as one of the most reliable
attractions to star in any circuit. The greatest praise has probably been
bestowed upon her original impersonations. She has long made a study
of common types of many nationalities, and some of her most delightful
programs are made up of costume impersonations, accompanied by
folklore and song and legend, of foreign countries.
During the World war she originated some striking and inspira-
tional programs for the boys of the camps, and also worked under the
auspices of the City Woman's Council of Defense and the Red Cross,
and did follow up work for the War Savings Stamps. Mrs. Enderly is
now engaged for from six to eight months in the year on tour, and the
rest of the time she spends in her beautiful California home. She is a
member of the Matinee Musical and the Ebell Clubs of Los Angeles
and is a Christian Scientist.
When the war broke out her son had nearly completed two years
in the University of California at Berkeley. He was one of the first
students from the university to enlist, entering the Officers' Training
Camp at San Pedro. He was one of the first twelve out of fourteen
hundred attending this school to receive his commission as ensign. His
first duties were in charge of a patrol boat off San Diego in command
of nine men. After three months, he was sent to Annapolis for four
months' intensive training, and after about one month was chosen com-
mander of his company, and the following week was made commander
of a battalion of six companies. He graduated in May and led his com-
pany for the congressional review. The young man was assigned to the
U. S. S. Nevada, one of the largest battleships in the American fleet, and
on his first trip to France learned that for this trip it was the admiral's
flagship, and the admiral himself travelled incog. While in foreign waters
young Enderly was engaged in patrol work on the North Sea, the coast
of England, Scotland and Ireland, and later his ship was one of the
escorts of the President on his trip to France. During one week his
vessel helped escort two hundred thousand men into France. He twice
encountered submarine attacks and one phantom raider. He was given
his commission as lieutenant just before the signing of the armistice and
was honorably discharged in August, 1919.
Los Angeles Clinical Group of Physicians and StmcteONSt,
Eighth Floor Ferguson Building, Los Angeles, California. In keeping
with its characteristic progressiveness in matters pertaining to human
welfare. Southern California during the past five years has been the
fostering genius of one of the most unique organizations in the history
of medical advancement. It has been growing clear during the past
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few years that the medical profession, with its present disorganized form
of practice, is incapable of rendering available to the community the
overwhelming mass of valuable recent acquisitions to medical science.
The existing system of medical practice is being forced to change just
as, with the introduction of machinery, the old fashioned shop system
of production was forced to give way to modern factory system with
its greater capacity for supplying to all of the community the com-
forts that were before reserved for the few. Army service during the
war has done much to prepare the profession for this change. In the
army doctors constantly worked in teams. When the services of a
specialist were needed to supplement routine treatment, the specialist
was always at hand. The returning army doctor has been cured of
his desire to keep his practice a rigidly individualistic affair.
There was a time not many years ago when the facts and pro-
cedures utilized in the practice of medicine were few as compared with
those of today. One man's hand and brain could fairly well encompass
them. The urge to specialization was weak, and the specialist became
a specialist because some individual aptitude or the recognition of some
especially needed investigation led him to confine his efforts to one par-
ticular field of study. Thus, the specialists of earlier days have gradu-
ally built up the great accumulation of detailed information which con-
stitutes our present medical science. Today specialization is demanded
in order that all of the procedures utilized by medical science may be
skillfully carried out and that all of the facts may be wisely cons'dered
in diagnosis and treatment. Because the scope of the science must thus
be divided up among various men in order that it may all be mastered,
it is imperative that these several men join one another and continually
co-ordinate their activities to reassemble their science for efficient appli-
cation to practice. Only in this way can there be avoided the mistake
of narrow specialization.
The large hospital and dispensary with their staffs of specialists of
every kind have not met the requirements of the present situation. A
nevvf form of professional affiliation has therefore been developed. The
expressions, group medicine, or group practice and group diagnosis have
been coined to distinguish the modes of procedure in this new type of
affiliation from the methods followed in the hospital and the dispensary.
By this system doctors practice in organized groups instead of practicing
independently. Combining to work thus in groups is so new to the medi-
cal profession that many of the details of the group procedure have not
yet been standardized. Consequently there are various types of service
offered under the general designation "group medicine." The two
sharply differing types of groups are : first, that offering only examination
and diagnosis, so that the group represents a sort of super-diagnostician,
and second, that offering not only a diagnosis (with perhaps recommen-
dations for treatment) but also supplying the staff' and the facilities re-
quired for actually applying the treatment needed. These two types of
procedure are in this discussion designated, respectively group diagnoiisi
and group practice.
To avoid lengthy discussion of the merits of these two systems the
following expression of the beliefs of the Los Angeles Clinical Group
will suffice. First, a "cut and dried" diagnosis made from the study
of the patient at one stage only of his disease is far inferior to one
arrived at while the patient is kept under observation during treat-
ment. Composite skill is just as important in modifying the treatment
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to the changing condition of the patient as it is to specifying the need
for certain measures at the outset. Second, the technique of treat-
ment demands speciaHzation just as much as diagnosis and the adminis-
tration of several different lines of treatment by several individuals
who are not co-ordinating their work is likely to result in the use of
conflicting measures. Therefore, group practice is considered essential
to getting the best results for the patient. Merely giving a diagnosis
is of little value to him.
Many people fail to recognize that there is any difference between
group practice and the practice of the staff in the higher grade hospital.
The distinction is vital. In fact, one prominent writer on the subject of
group medicine makes the statement, "Group medicine is largely a re-
sult of erroneous diagnosis in hospitals which could have been avoided
by group study."
Here are the differences between the new method of group practice
and the older method of the dispensary and the large hospital : In the
dispensary the patient usually himself specifies the nature of his ail-
ment and thus, so to speak, selects for himself the specialist whose
services he receives ; or the patient may be examined by one physician
who presumes to decide which particular specialist should administer
treatment. Much the same is true in the large public hospital; while
in the private hospital the patient is usually under the care of some one
physician or surgeon who may, at his own discretion, confer with such
others of the staff as he chooses. The essential features of group pracr*
tice are: first, that the patient is examined in every instance by several
specialists, or diagnosticians in succession whether he seems to need
their several services or not ; second, that having been examined by all
of the group, each member makes recommendations for whatever con-
ditions he has found ; third, those making recommendations then consult
together and the various measures of treatment are applied in order
of their importance to the patient's recovery.
This detailed group procedure is necessary to consistently secure the
best results, even though some of the examinations prove negative. This
is true because one physician or diagnostician cannot even guess suc-
cessfully which particular examination is likely to detect the original
cause of the patient's difficulties. Take this as an illustration : An
internist examined a patient who complained of being very nervous,
apprehensive, and easily tired. The internist failing to find an adequate
cause for the patient's condition, sent the patient to a neurologist who,
after some study, finding nothing inherently wrong with the patient's
nervous system, recalled a similar case where the underlying cause was
found to have been a local defect of the urinary apparatus. The pa-
tient was therefore sent to a urologist for examination. The urologist
found a slight abnormal condition which he proceeded to treat, but
there was not satisfactory improvement in the patient's nervous condi-
tion ; so in a few weeks he was again sent back to the neurologist. Now
the neurologist, observing a tendency in the patient to shield ' his eyes
from bright light, decided that the services of an oculist were needed.
The patient was sent to a fourth man who found only some conges-
tion of the eye lids. This he treated for a few weeks ; but the patient's
nervousness remained. So again the neurologist was consulted and the
desultory procedure continued until finally an osteopath found a spinal
condition which had been produced secondary to the condition foun'I
and relieved by the urologist. The persistence of the spinal condition
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had kept up the patient's nervous disturbance. Proper treatment of
this condition resulted in the rapid recovery of the patent's poise and
vig'.Hv Probably the services of several of these specialists were neede-l
to completely restore the patient to normal, but the uncertainty and de
lay were unnecessary. If these various specialists had been organized
for group practice of osteopathic medicine the patient would at once
have been examined in turn by each of them, their composite findings
would have been discussed and all necessary treatment begun without de-
lay, rhe patient would have been saved hours of time spent in taking
unnecessary treatment and waiting around doctors' reception rooms, and
he would have been saved many dollars of scattered fees and several
weeks of discomfort and inefficiency.
Group practice presents many features of definite value to the pa-
tient. Here are several of them:
First, the group method easily results in the location of an obscure
cause for a general physical disturbance which would go unfound in
the hands of a single practitioner.
Second, proper treatment is begun at once and is directed at the
primary cause of the patient's trouble, thus preventing progress of thi.s
condition to a stage much more difficult to relieve.
Third, unsuspected disease conditions are frequently found, in con-
nection with group examinations, which can be successfully treated in
their early stages but which untreated would develop into serious organic
diseases. This preventative medicine phase of group practice is one of
the most important. (In a large number of employees of banks and
commercial houses the Life Extension Institute found 59 per cent pre-
senting either moderate or serious impairment of health; yet over 90
per cent of these did not suspect their danger.)
fourth, the patient is protected against the conflicting and one-
sided viewpoints of a series of isolated specialists. In the group affilia-
tion each serves as a check upon the other and each is forced to develop
a more mature and well balanced judgment.
Fifth, confidence is instilled in the patient by the concurrence of
the opinions and recommendations of the several physicians of the group
This enables the patient to receive treatment with a mental attitude that
m.ikes it easy for him to co-operate with those who are serving him.
Sixth, conflicting treatment will not be given the patient in group
practice, whereas this is frequently done when a patient is receiving
services simultaneously from two or more unassociated specialists.
Seventh, in borderline cases, the physicians and surgeons bring their
combined judgments to bear in deciding upon whether surgical oft
non-surgical treatment shall be instituted, whereas in ordinary practice
u.sually the surgeon competes with the physician for the case, or the
physician submits unquestioningly to the dictates of the surgeon. Often
uiioer ordinary conditions of practice the advantages of a surgeon's
diagnosis are not secured until the case has become too far advanced
for sr.fe operation.
Eighth, group practice ofifers to the patient a means of securing a
consultation concerning his condition while it is yet in its early and sim-
plest stage. The "consultation of specialists," with the dire significance
given it by newspaper usage, instead of being a last resort becomes a
first recourse.
Ninth, the patient can count on the physician's knowledge being up
to date if he is a member of a clinical group. This is insured by the
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constructive criticism which is continually passing back and forth be-
tween members of the group.
Tenth, the patient does not lose his personal contact with the physi-
cian of his choice in this system.
Eleventh, the patient is protected against indecision on the part of
his physician when the case requires radical treatment.
Tivelfth, the highest grade of service can be secured through group
practice at a minimum cost of time and money. As long ago as the
spring of 1914, before there was any other group in the country or-
ganized for this form of practice, a group of osteopathic physicians and
surgeons in Los Angeles recognized the advantages of the system to both
their own development and the welfare of their patients. Dr. Edward
S. Merrill, Dr. Walter V. Goodfellow, Dr. W. Curtis Brigham and
Dr. Merritt M. Ring, in the summer of that year therefore formed a
definite affiliation for the purpose of developing a diagnostic and clinical
group. Six years have sufficed to round the group out to a nearly
complete organization. The membership of the group has changed
slightly from time to time, the death of Dr. Ring having left an im-
portant vacancy for a time, but the number associated with the work
and the degree of specialization has gradually increased until today
there are twelve distinct departments represented.
The mental and nervous diseases and the strictly manipulative
osteopathic work are in the care of Dr. Edward S. Merrill. Dr. Walter
V. Goodfellow is in charge of the work concerned with diseases of the
ear, nose and throat and of surgery of the face and head. General
surgery and gynecology are cared for by Dr. W. Curtis Brigham. Rectal
surgery and diseases of the genito-urinary tract are handled by Edward
B. Jones. The anesthetist and radiographer for the group is Dr. Harry
E. Brigham. Dr. Frank L. Cunningham is the group's oculist, and
Dr. Lillian G. Barker, laboratory diagnostician. The dental surgery is
in charge of Dr. F. Fern Petty assisted by Dr. E. J. Thee. Dr. Ernest
G. Bashor gives his particular attention to obstetrics and children's
diseases. Circulatory, respiratory and nutritional disturbances are
handled by Dr. Louis C. Chandler. In the therapeutic departments
whose procedures involve special instrumentation, especially the ear,
nose and throat and genito-urinary. Dr. Joseph E. Watson serves as asso-
ciate. Acute diseases are taken care of by Dr. Horace A. Bashor. A
special department, in charge of Dr. Ferd Goodfellow, looks after ad-
mmistrative problems and the keeping of records. With this organiza-
tion the group is now in a position to efficiently care for cases of all
types. The present quarters of the group occupying the entire eighth
floor of the Ferguson Building, together with additional rooms on :he
floors below, and representing over two thousand square feet of floor
^pace have been outgrown. Measures are being taken at present to se-
cure a housing adequate to its growing needs.
The Los Angeles Clinical Group of Physicians and Surgeons is
watching with close interest the development of the group medicine idea
in the medical profession at large and looks forward to this movement
for the remedy of many of the defects and superficialities that are so
prevalent in the practice of all branches of medicine today.
Richard Beresford Kirchhoffer, who died at his home, l.'i04
West Twenty-seventh Street, in Los Angeles, November 8, 1919, has
been a resident of Southern California nearly thirty years, and was
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long- prominent in business affairs, being a member of the Los Angeles
Stock Exchange.
He was born in Cork, Ireland, in September, 1855. His mother was
a Miss Fairtlough of Irish ancestry. His paternal ancestors went to
Ireland with William of Orange, the first Kirchhoffer being a physician
to the king. His father, Richard Boyle Kirchhoffer, was an Episcopal
■clergyman in the same parish in Ireland for forty years.
Richard Beresford Kirchhoffer was educated in the public schools
.at Rossel, England, and in 1874, as a young man of nineteen went to
'Canada, and soon afterward joined the frontiersmen in the Canadian
Northwest in what was later the province of Manitoba. He lived there
ifor sixteen years, growing up and prospering with the country, and in
1890 came to Ontario, California, where he developed an orange grove
and built a fine substantial home. In 1903 he removed to Los Angeles,
and from that time until his death owned a seat in the Los Angeles
Stock Exchange, and was one of the most prominent members of that
■institution. At the time of his death the Exchange drew up a beautiful
tribute and memorial resolution, which was presented to Mrs. Kirch-
hoffer. His death came very suddenly from heart failure, and only a
few hours before he had planted a bed of flowers at his home. He was
a member of the Celtic Club.
December 2, 1885, in Manitoba he married Mary Elizabeth Young,
also a native of Cork, Ireland, where her father was a prominent physi-
cian. Mrs. Kirchhoffer has four brothers living in Manitoba. All were
in the World war, two with commissions as colonels and one as major
in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Kirchhoff'er was survived
by four children, while about eleven months before his death his son
Douglas died from influenza-pneumonia. His oldest son is Rev. Richard
Ainsley Kirchoff'er, rector at All Saints Church at Riverside, who mar-
ried Miss Arline Wagner. The older daughter is Nora, wife of Gordon
Macleish, also of Los Angeles. The younger daughter Muriel is a
kindergarten teacher and the younger son Beresford served as an en-
sign in the navy during the war and is connected with the Standard
'Oil Company.
Spencer H. Smith was an annual visitor in Southern California
for a number of years, and from 1906 until death owned the beautiful
home on West Adams street, where his widow now resides. He died
November 28, 1917.
His manv friends in Southern California recognize in Mr. Smith
a character of great personal charm and of the dignity conferred by
many years of successful business experience and the transaction of
large and important affairs. He was born in New York City March 4,
1829, of English parentage. His father, who had come to this country
in 1802, acquired much property in the East. At one time in his career
he planned to come West, but because of his wife's health he remained
in New York, where he was a manufacturer, and also owned a farm in
Harlem.
Spencer H. Smith was educated at Mrs. Falrchild's School, at
Plainfield, New Jersey. His brilliant mind brought him rapid advance-
ment in his studies and every Instructor advised him to study law and
become a lawyer. When he was sixteen years of age his father gave
"him the choice of going to college and completing a law course or an
•extended trip to England, upon which his father was fhen embarking.
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He chose the experience abroad, and after his return engaged in business
with his father.
Later he retired from this business and became actively associated
with his father-in-law, Mr. Walter Bowne, in handling the latter's large
estate. Mr. Bowne gave him his confidence, consulted and talked v/ith
him freely. For a time Mr. Smith was president of the Flushing Rail-
road when Mr. Bowne owned that property. In 1859 he was made one
of the trustees at the incorporation of the Queen's County Savings Bank,
at Flushing, Long Island, and at the first meeting was elected treasurer
for 1859-60, and again filled the same position in 1863-64.
During his early life Mr. Smith took a prominent part in the New
York National Guard, serving as a m.ember of the Seventh Regiment,
N,ew York Militia, and later joined Squadron A, of which he was
colonel. At the outbreak of the Civil war he sent the first regiment out
of New York when the call came for the Home Guard. He was ex-
tremely anxious to go with them, but his wife and her father, Mr.
Bowne, opposed it, much to his disappointment. Immediately after the
war he went South to attend to some business for Mr. Bowne, his trip
taking him as far as New Orleans. As he was an American only one
generation removed from England, and had the appearance and man-
ners of a typical Englishman, the Southerners in his presence showed
none of the restraint and hostility which they expressed before Northern
men, and he therefore gained an early intimate view of Southern condi-
tions immediately after the great war. Mr. Smith was quick-witted, had
a great fund of humor, and was a splendid entertainer in social converse.
He knew all the prominent men of his time in New York, and to the
last was noted for his retentive memory. Like most Englishmen, he was
an excellent horseman, and for many years kept a stable of splendid
horses. He was a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal
faith, and belonged to the Union League Club of New York City and
the California Club of Los Angeles.
He spent his first winter in California in 1887, and after that so-
journed in the state every winter, and in 1906 bought a house and made
California his permanent home. He also acquired considerable other
property in the West.
Mr. Smith's first wife was Eliza Bowne, daughter of Walter Bowne
and granddaughter of Walter Bowne, mayor of New York. She died at
San Gabriel in 1892. Her two daughters are Mrs. Charles W. Carpenter
of New York and Mrs. Saniuel Freeman of New York.
The present Mrs. Smith before her marriage was Miss Catherine
Dallett. a daughter of Gillies Dallett of Philadelphia. Mr. Dallett was
a prominent Eastern banker, at one time president of the Penn National
Bank of Philadelphia. Mrs. Smith resides in the home which Mr. Smith
purchased on West Adams street, a delightful spot, the gardens being
walled away from the street and adorned with many beautiful plants and
shrubs, while the house is a complete expression of comfort and good
taste.
Leon R. Conklin, Realtor, with offices in the Herman W. Hellman
Building, at Fourth and Spring streets, is an old resident of Los Angeles,
having been brought here when a boy of twelve years. After com-
pleting his education he acquired a well rounded commercial experi-
ence, and for a number of years past has been one of the leaders in the
real estate business as a realtor. Many important transactions have
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been consummated through him as representative of purchasers and
owners.
Mr. Conklin was born at Virginia City, Nevada, Jime 9, 1874, a son
of H. H. and Eliza Conklin. He began his education in the public
schools of Eureka, Nevada, and with his parents arrived at Los Angeles
in March, 1886. Here he continued his education in the old government
school and high school, located at what is now Mercantile Place in the
verj' heart of the business section. That school was so crowded that
the junior class of which Mr. Conklin was a member was transferred
to the old Lutheran church on Broadway and Sixth Street, a building
rented by the Board of Education. After finishing his high school course
and graduating from a business college Mr. Conklin began as errand
boy with a men's furnishing store, and later became affiliated with the
I. L. Lowman & Company store for men, and in that establishment rose
in sixteen years from the rank of delivery boy to manager with a work-
ing partnership. This firm was one of the first in Los Angeles to install
the profit shnring plan with executives.
March 17, 1907, he entered the employ of Bryan & Bradford, real
estate, and after five years with them engaged in the same line of busi-
ness for himself. He is today recognized as one of the city's ablest
realtors. One of many transactions that has a particular interest was
consummated early in 1920, when he represented the heirs of a Los
Angeles pioneer, Mrs. Ward, in selling a property at 618 South Hope
Street to Frank B. Yoakum for a consideration of $46,000. The prop-
erty has since been sold by Mr. Yoakum and will be used as a portion
of the site for the new University Club Building. In the spring of 1886
when Mr. Conklin first came to Los Angeles he was taken to the home
of Mrs. Ward on that property. Mrs. Ward had acquired it only a short
time previously for less than four thousand dollars. Mr. Conklin re-
calls the fact that oranges were then picked in that part of Hope Street
where the Y. M. C. A. now stsmds.
May 3, 1905, Mr. Conklin married Henrietta B. Drewry, of Chi-
cago. Mrs. Conklin is devoted to home and home interests and has been
a valued asset to her husband in his business career. She and Mr.
Conklin attend the Christian Science church. Mr. Conklin is affiliated
with the Masonic Order, is a member of the Los Angeles City Club,
the Los Angeles Realty Board, and the Los Angeles County Pioneer
Society and the Nevada State Society. In politics he is a republican.
Ross T. HicKCOx is a Los Angeles lawyer of twenty years' prac-
tice and experience, and for over ten years has been head of the firm
Hickcox & Crenshaw, handling a large volume of general practice but
in one sense specialists in the law of Insurance, Surety and Bond mat-
ters. Their offices are at 356 South Spring Street.
Mr. Hickcox was born on a cattle ranch at Deer Creek, Nebraska,
March 24, 1874, a son of Clark A. and Martha B. (Joiner) Hickcox.
When he was a small child his parents removed to Southeastern Kan-
sas, and he received his early education at Girar ' in that State. He
graduated from the Girard High School in l'^91, and for a year taught
school there. Coming west to California and dependent on his own re-
sources he found employment in a general store at Leniore, one year, but
soon devoted all his resources to the study of law in Los Angeles. He
was admitted to the bar in 1896 and since then has been in regular
practice. He formed a partnership with Mr. L. O. Crenshaw in 1907.
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Mr. Hickcox volunteered and went to San Francisco with the Seventh
CaHfornia Regiment U. S. V. I., in 1898, and was mustered out in
Los Angeles the same year. For two terms he served as a trustee of
the Los Angeles Public Library. In October, 1918, the firm oi Hickcox
& Crenshaw opened a law office at El Centro, in Imperial County, and
Mr. Hickcox since that date has spent the major portion of his time
in that city. Mr. Hickcox himself owns one of the finest law and pri-
vate libraries in Southern California. He is very fond of outdoor sports,
and is credited with having collected some of the rarest hunting trophies
possessed by any citizen of Southern California. In 1899 h; married
Marie Frances Skinner. Mr. Hickcox is a member of the California
Club, San Gabriel Country Club and the Sierra Club.
Patrick Cochrane Campbell, whose business activities since com-
ing to Los Angeles has prominently identified him in real estate circles,
is a member of the governing committee and former treasurer ot the
Los Angeles Realty Board. During the World war he acted as gen-
eral chairman of the Real Estate Committee for the Liberty and Vic-
tory Loans. This committee was one of the most successful among the
various local organizations striving in friendly rivalry for the success of
the loans, his committee during the Victory Loan campaign securing sub-
scriptions aggregating nearly a million dollars. '
The patriotic enthusiasm Mr. Campbell put into this work proceeds
from sources planted deep in his own nature and character, and inherited
from a line of ancestry that is no less than illustrious.
Only his more intimate friends are aware th:it Mr. Campbell is a
grandson of the great churchman Alexander Campbell, founder of the
Christian church also known as the Disciples of Christ. Alexander
Campbell spent many years in the active ministry in western Pennsyl-
vania and the northern part of what is now West Virginia, and among
the hills of West Virginia he established Bethany College which has
long been famous as a seat of learning and as a place of training for
ministers of the Christian church. Alexander Campbell was a son of
Elder Thomas Campbell, a Scotch Presbyterian preacher, and a grand-
son of Colonel James Campbell, in whose arms General Wolfe died on
the Heights of Abraham. Thomas Campbell the poet was a cousin to
Elder Thomas Campbell, who married Jane Carnego, a French Huguenot.
While Mr. Campbell's name indicates his Scotch ancestry he is also
descended from a mingling of English, Welsh and French stocks. Alex-
ander Campbell married Selina H. Bakewell, whose record may be
traced through several centuries of English ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Patrick Cochrane Campbell's father was William Pendleton Camp-
bell of Bethany, West Virginia, an attorney by profession, and young-
est child of Alexander Campbell. William P. Campb:ll married Nannie
Meaux Cochrane of Louisville, Kentucky. Her father Dr. Patrick Henry
Cochrane was named for his great-half-uncle Patrick Henry, the Vir-
ginia orator and statesman, and through the same line of ancestry is
related to two other famous orators. Lord Brougham of England and
William Winston of Virginia. Dr. Cochrane was descended from the
first Earl of Mar and was related to Admiral Sir Henry Cochrane, who
defeated Napoleon's fleet at Basque Roads.
Nannie Meaux Cochrane's mother was Mary Jeanet Meaux, who
was of French Huguenot and English ancestry, both Puritan and Cava-
lier. She was a descendant of General John Overton who commanded
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Cromwell's army at Hull, and was also related to Nathaniel Bacon, noted
in American history as leader of the Virginian rebellion.
The membership he enjoys in the Sons of the American Revolution
Patrick Cochrane Campbell derives through his illustrious ancestor Cap-
tain John Syme, by whom the first regiment of the American Revolution
was armed and equipped. Captain John Syme's father was Colonel John
Sym.e, Jr., and an officer in the Revolution, and his father, Colonel John
Syme, Sr., fought in the Colonial wars.
While on the subject of ancestry it is appropriate to include some
of the other famous characters found in the direct and collateral lines
of Mr. Campbell of Los Angeles. Among them were Richmond Ter-
rill, grandson of the Duke of Richmond, therefore of royal blood, and
Lady Mary Waters ; Hardin Burnley, who was president of the Gov-
ernor's Council of the Colony of Virginia and served as a member of
the Virginia House of Burgess, as also did other ancestors, Colonel
John Syme, Sr., Colonel John Syme, Jr., Nicholas Merriweather, Sher-
wood Lightfoot, William Winston, Samuel Overton, Richard Meaux,
David Crawford and John Thornton.
Patrick Cochrane Campbell was born at Louisville, Kentucky, July
4, 1871, and acquired his high school education at Wellsburg, in the
vicinity of Bethany College, West Virginia. He also attended Ken-
tucky University at Lexington and the University of Virginia at Char-
lottesville. During his early life he practiced his profession as a civil
engineer, at first in the employ of railroads, subsequently on the Lake
Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Survey and the Government Survey of the
Ohio River. Since 1895 Mr. Campbell's chief business has been the
buying and selling of real estate.
He has never been active in politics, is classified as an independent
republican, and has strong views and convictions respecting the free,
untrammeled liberties of the American people as based upon the fun-
damental principles of the Declaration of Independence. He is a thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite ]\lason and Shriner and a member of the
Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. A member of the Protestant
Episcopal church he is vestryman of St. James church at Los Angeles.
April 27, 1904, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Campbell married Martha
Eliza Campbell, daughter of Dr. Albert Preston Campbell and Betty
Woodson Coleman. Mrs. Campbell also has an interesting ancestral
record, being a descendant of the "First Duke of Argyle." Her pater-
nal grandfather Thomas Franklin Campbell of Scotch descent and a
native of Louisiana, graduated from Bethany College, Virginia, and
gave his life to educational interests. In that cause he became promin-
ently known in the State of Oregon, where he spent the latter part of his
life. He married Jane Eliza Campbell, who was born at Newry, Ire-
land, of Protestant parents and came to America when about fifteen
years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have three children: Albert
Preston Campbell, Jr., Argyle Campbell, Jr., and William Pendleton
Campbell, Jr.
Andrew Gl.\ssell Sr. From his arrival m California, in 1852,
until his death, nearly fifty years later, Andrew Glassell Sr. was almost
constantly busied with his professional and business responsibilities, and
enjoyed a career that easily ranked him among the great lawyers of the
state.
He was the fourth in direct succession to bear the name Andrew
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Glassell. The first was a Scotchman, and the second founded the family
in Virginia. Andrew Glassell was the last survivor of the six children
of Andrew and Susan (Thornton) Glassell. He was born in the ances-
tral home known as Torthorwald, in Virginia, September 30, 1827. When
he was seven years old he was taken to Sumter County, Alabama, where
his father became a cotton planter near Livingston. At the age of
seventeen he entered the University of Alabama and was graduated in
1848. On being admitted to the bar he began general practice and soon
acquired the friendship and interests of Hon. John A. Campbell, at one
time justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1852 Mr. Glassell left Alabama to cast his fortunes with the new
state of California. He brought with him a letter from Judge Campbell,
and that gave him admission to the bar of the Supreme Court, and he
quickly proved himself the possessor of the many high qualities noted
in the recommendation. Soon after coming to the state he was appointed
a deputy of the United States district attorney at San Francisco. Dur-
ing that time he had special duties in connection with handling land cases.
After three years in that office he resumed private practice in San Fran-
cisco, and continued his profession in that city until the war. Being
of Southern ancestry and sympathies, he found it impossible for him to
take the test oath, and temporarily closed his law office during the war.
While that struggle was going on he engaged in running a steam saw
mill and manufacturing lumber and staves near Santa Cruz.
After the war Mr. Glassell resumed his profession, with Los An-
geles as his home and headquarters. Here he entered a partnership
with Alfred B. Chapman, a friend of his boyhood and at one time an
officer in the regular army. For a time the firm was Glassell & Chap-
man, and on January 1, 1870, Colonel George H. Smith became a mem-
ber, and a later partner was Henry M. Smith, subsequently a judge of
the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. In 1879 Mr. Chapman re-
tired to his fruit ranch, and later George S. Patton, a nephew of Mr.
Glassell, was admitted as a junior partner. In 1883 Mr. Glassell retired
to enjoy his declining years in leisure.
During his residence in San Francisco Mr. Glassell married Lucie
Toland. Her father, Dr. H. H. Toland, was at one time head of the
medical department of the University of California. To their marriage
were born nine children : Susan G., who became the wife of H. M.
Mitchell, and is now deceased; Minnie G., Mrs. Harrington Brown of
Los Angeles ; Hugh ; Andrew ; William T., deceased ; Louise G., widow
of Dr. J. DeBarth Shorb, of Los Angeles : Philip H., deceased ; Alfred L.,
deceased, and Lucien, deceased.
Mrs. Lucie Glassell was born in South Carolina and was a mere
child when brought to California. She died at the age of thirty-nine
years. She was a member of the Catholic Church. Six years after her
death, Mr. Glassell married for his second wife Mrs. Virginia Micou
Ring of New Orleans. She died at Los Angeles in 1897.
Andrew Glassell passed away at his home in Los Angeles January
28, 1901. Of the many tributes paid to his memory, none contains so
much of history and of impressive record as a memorial adopted by the
Los Angeles Bar Association, and prepared by a committee comprising
Stephen" M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. W. Hutton, J. R. Scott and J.
A. Graves. The following are excerpts from that memorial:
"At all times since the formation of the co-partnership of Glassell
& Chapman down to the time of Mr. Glassell's retirement, the firm of
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which h; was the head enjoyed a large and hicrative practice. He and
his CO partners were favorably known throughout the state, and especially
in this section, and they were usually retained on one side or the other
of ev^ry in.portant civil suit tried in this county and vicinity. The
records of the several tribunes, state and federal, abound with evidence
demonstrating the extent and importance of the liti2;ation so ably con-
duct, d by and under the supervision of Mr. Glassell. And to these
records reference is made as the highest and best evidence of his reputa-
tion, worth and ability as a lawyer. Not only was the firm of Glassell
& Chapman active practitioners of law, but did much to develop and
improve this section of the state. They did not, as so many owners of
large tracts of land have done, wait to become rich by and through the
enterprise of others, but in all matters calculated to induce emigration
and improve Southerji California they were foremost. One instance of
their deals in real estate may be cit:d. About 1868 they became the
owners of a large tract of land in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.
This tract was subdivided and a large irrigating canal constructed to
conduct the waters of the Santa Ana River to farming lands and the
town of Richland, which was laid out by th:m, and the land offered for
sale upon terms the most favorable for settlers. This little town ot Rich-
land is now the city of Orange. The canal has from time to time been
extended and enlarged, until today it forms a large part of the property
of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and a portion of the finest
system of irrigation in the southern part of the state.
"Mr. Glassell was one of the incorporators and for many years pre-
ceding his death was one of the directors of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Los Angeles. He also took part in the organization of the Los
Angeles City Water Works Company in 1868 and continued to be one
of its large stockholders. About the same year the firm of Glassell &
Chapman act d as attorneys in the incorporation of the Los Angeles &
San Pedro Railway Company, by which company the present rauroad in^
Los Angeles was constructed. They were the attorneys continuously
until the road was transferred to the Southern Pacific Railroad Com-
pany, when the firm became local attorneys for the latter company.
"As a lawyer and as a man he was scrupulously honest, direct in
his methods, open and frank in all his dealings, and towards the mem-
bers of the bar always extremely courteous and affable, but at the same
time in the trial of a case bold and vigorous. He was generous and
was liberal to the young men who entered the profession through his
office, and more than one member of your committee remembers with
gratitude his kindness, helpfulness and generosity, and it is most pleas-
ing now to remember that in all their intercourse with him they can not
recall one single coarse expression or single instance in which even for
a moment he laid aside the bearing of a gentleman. He was a sound
lawyer, amply versed in the principles of his profession and thoroughly
posted as to precedents affecting the questions in hand. He was a safe
adviser and practical rather than brilliant. He was not an orator, but
alwavs terse, clear and forcible in argument. He was at all times thor-
oughly prepared at trial, and in the preparation acted upon the theory
that lie is the best lawyer who drafts his pleading and other papers so
thoroughly as to leave no weak points for the attacks of his adversary.
In his dealings with his debtors he was merciful and forbearing, often
refusing or remitting the debt when its enforcement might have seemed
to be harsh. Each member of your committee has personallv known Mr.
Glassell for more than a quarter of a century and can without reserva-
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tion attest that they never heard expressed any suspicion of the man.
By devotion to his profession and by rare business sagacity he accumu-
lated a large fortune, but by far the richest legacy he leaves behind him
is the reputation w,hich he earned by a lifelong course of honest dealing
in his professional and business career. Nolvvithstanding his retiremjnt
from the practice, his life was a laborious one and full of responsibilities,
and is said by one who was near to him in his later days that he was
ready to lay down the burdens of life and rest."
Andrew Glassell V, whose business interests at Los Angeles have
been chiefly in subdivision and development work, i^ a son of Andrew
Glassell, the distinguished Californian lawyer, whose career has been re-
viewed, and his wife, Lucie Goodwin (Toland) Glassell, daughter of
the late Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco.
Andrew Glassell V was born at San Francisco October 20, 1860.
He graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1879, continued his
education by private study, and for two years was a law student., Ill
health caused him to abandon his intention of becoming a lawyer, and
he retired to the country and b:came a practical farmer. Mr. Glassell
continued farming until about 1906, in which year he put out his first
subdivision, "Glassell Park." His business in subdividing continued until
1912, and he still retains a large interest in the Glassell Development
Company, and also has three hlmdred and fifty acres in and near Glassell
Park, in the city of Los Angeles, a portion of which, containing one hun-
dred and ten acres, he has recently subdivided and put upon the market.
Mr. Glassell is a democrat in his political affiliation. March 31,
1886, he married Miss Rietta M. Ring, daughter of George P. and Vir-
ginia (Micou) Ring, of New Orleans. At the time of her marriage, Mrs.
Glassell's mother, Virginia M. Ring, was the second wife of the late
Andrew Glassell Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Glassell had three children : Andri-
etta, who became the wife of Milton Clark Somers ; Virginia, who died
at the age of twelve years, and William Micou, who married Margaret
Dagmar Sheerer.
Frederick P. Gregson. The qualifications which enabled Fred-
erick P. Gregson to render such signally useful services to the business
interests of Southern California in his capacity as manager and secre-
tary of the Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles were largely derived
from his long and expert experience as a railroad traffic official. Mr.
Gregson has been a resident of Los Angeles over thirty years, and prob-
ably knows the complicated subject of rates and traffic details as thor-
oughly as any man in this section of the Southwest.
Mr. Gregson was bom in Brooklyn, New York, March 17, 1862,
•son of John Proctor and Marie (Larimie) Gregson. His father was
an attorney by profession, but later became a naval officer. He served
at one time as paymaster in the United States Navy and was one of the
men who hoisted the United States flag at Monterey. He and his wife
are both deceased and he spent his last days retired in Illinois.
Frederick P. Gregson, who was the seventh in a family of eleven
children, had a brief schooling but sufficient to give him a knowledge
of the branches he has utilized so well in connection with his keen in-
telligence and masterful mind. As a young man he entered railroading
as an assistant to Ed Chambers and W. G. Barnwell of the Santa Fe
system. He first came to Southern California in 1883 and located here
pernianentlv in 1887 as an employe of the Sante Fe System.
The Los Angeles Jobbers Association was formed October 11,
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1899, and it opened its traffic bureau in 1908. Mr. Gregson was chosen
to head this bureau, and has served the association as an adviser and
administrator on all subjects connected with freight rates and other
traffic problems. For a number of years the association had been en-
gaged in a fruitless efifort to obtain rate concessions, but the accomplish-
ment of that end was left to Mr. Gregson. He has secured not only
a just regulation of transportation rates affecting Southern California,
but through his constant watchfulness has safeguarded the trade and
industries of Los Angeles from discriminations and adverse legislation
arising either in the city ordinances, state laws or national legislation.
He has also rendered a great deal of practical assistance in promoting
the harbor improvements for Los Angeles. He was publicity represen-
tative of the United States Railroad Administration, and in that work
divided his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Mr. Gregson who has never married, is independent in local poli-
tics and a democrat in national affairs. He is a member of the Los
Angeles Athletic Club, the City Club and is a member and active in the
Transportation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and in re-
ligion is a Catholic.
Earl Curtis Peck is a Los Angeles lawyer, beginning practice
here in 1910, and is identified with a busy and important practice as a
corporation lawyer. He is largely a product of Southern California,
where he has lived since boyhood, but represents by birth and family con-
nections some of the oldest New England stock.
He was born at Stratford, Connecticut, November 1, 1881, a son
of Wilfred M. and Emily Josephine Peck. His father was a native of
Pennsylvania and his mother of New York State. They were married
in Connecticut. The paternal ancestry is traced back to Rev. Elijah
Peck, who lived in Northeastern Pennsylvania in Revolutionary times.
The Curtis family were English people who settled in Connecticut prior
to the Revolution. Many of the Peck family have been prominent in
educational affairs. Wilfred M. Peck and wife are living retired at
Hollywood. The father was an attorney and practiced at Los Angeles
about five years, retiring from his profession in 1915. He was formerly
a lawyer at Hartford, Connecticut. Earl Curtis Peck is the oldest of
three cliildren. His sisters are Adaline, wife of Walter M. Noble, of
Hollywood, and Emily, Mrs. Paul Adams, of Portland, Oregon.
Earl C. Peck was twelve years of age when his father came to
California. He graduated from the Riverside High School in 1900,
spent two years in the University of California beginning in 1901, and
took his law work in the intervals of other employment, at the University
of Southern California. He had a thorough business training before be-
ing admitted to practice, having worked for two years with the South-
ern Pacific Railroad and later with the Pacific Electric Railway and in
1910 resigned from a position in the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Com-
pany. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1909, and began active prac-
tice in January of the following year. He has been alone in practice
and has formed his principal connections in corporation work.
Mr. Peck is a republican, a member of the legal fraternity Phi
Delta Phi, City Club, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Brentwood
Country Club, Automobile Club of Southern California.
He and his family reside at 610 North Kenywood Street in Glen-
dale. April 7, 1910, at Los Angeles he married Miss Ethel Rose Wil-
son, a daughter of James and Anna Wilson, who are living at Oakdal.e,
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California. Mrs. Peck was born and educated in Southern California.
They have a daughter Catherine A., bom in Venice, California.
Frank Weber Benton, known to- the literary- world as F. Weber
Benton, is one of those enviable men whose lives have presented a suc-
cessful .combination between the literary and artistic and the practical
experience of doing things, getting things done with businesslike effi-
ciency. Mr. Benton, who has given nearly fifty years of his life to
work as an author, journalist, poet and pubHsher, is the present editor
and general manager of All-Color California Magazine, of Los Angeles,
the world's only all-color magazine.
He was born May 8, 1855, at Sheffield, Illinois, and was only fifteen
years old when he contributed his first articles to the newspaper press.
In 1874 at the age of nineteen he edited and published in St. Louis
the Envelope magazine. He afterwards published the Home Circle, The
Little Giant and The Criterion the latter being widely read and quoted
as an authority on art, book reviews, drama, etc. Mr. Benton also had
reportorial and editorial experience with the St. Louis Times, the St.
Louis Republic (then the Republican), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, Star Sayings, Kansas City Star and other promin-
ent journals. Many of his short stories, poems and general articles fre-
quently appear in eastern magazines. In 1898 he wrote the History of
St. Louis, Missouri, published by John Devoy of New York.
Mr. Benton had his home in St. Louis, except for the period of his
travels in descriptive work, until 1903, when he came to Los Angeles
for permanent residence. He had previously visited Southern Cali-
fornia, spending a year here in 1886-7 and another year in 1892. In
1903 he established the Pictorial American, a popular, artistic and high
class magazine. Some years later the name was changed to Scenic
America, later to .Semi-Tropic California, and finally to All-Color Cali-
fornia Magazine. In 1915 he wrote an,d published a book on California,
reputed to be the most artistic volume ever issued on the Pacific Coast
and one containing much valuable information on this section of the
country. A specially prepared copy of this work in a massive silver
casket was presented by the City of San Diego through Congressmait
William Kettner to President Wilson at a cost of one thousand dollars.
Mr. Benton's Alagazines serve to illustrate in a striking manner his
ideals and aims as an author and publisher. While he has been very
successful with many of his publications, the financial side has been less
attractive to him than the artistic feature which he has upheld and em-
phasized above all others. In addition to the partial list enumerated
above Mr. Benton is author of the libretto of a successful opera, "The
Lost Prince," and has written and published a number of other books,
among which may be mentioned "Author's Manual," "Feathers and
Foam," a novel, and several humorous works. A man of rare versa-
tility and gifts is Frank Weber Benton.
Ralph Luther Criswell. As one of the present City Council-
men of Los Angeles, Ralph Luther Criswell not only has shown excep-
tional qualifications in handling the duties entrusted to his department,
but is broadly and sympathetically representative of a large proportion
of the city's population, especially those who work and labor.
Mr. Criswell is a printer and has been identified with the printing
trades all his active career. He was born in Rushville, Illinois, October
12, 1861, son of Edmund L. and Susan Catherine (Wright) Criswell.
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His father fought with an Illinois regiment during the Civil war in the
Union army, and in civil life was a contractor. Ralph L. CriswcU, the
oldest of six children, had opportunity to attend public pchools only
throiigh the sixth grade and his best education was obtained as a prac-
tical man in the printing arts. He learned the trade of printer, and
has been a journeyman printer, proprietor of newspapers and identi-
fied with every other phase of the business and in many places both east
and west. Mr. Criswell has been a resident of Souihern California since
February 23, 1897. At one time he owned and publ'shed a paper at
Santa Paula. For many years he has been identified with the composing
rooms of the Los Angeles Herald and Examiner. He was elected a
city councilman for a two year term in 1917, and re-ebcted in 1919.
December 20, 1885, he married Mrs. May (Greene) Hathaway, of
lUinois. They have a son, Ralph Greene Criswell, \v\o enlisted in the
navy as an apprentice seaman and after s'x months was sent by his
commanding officer to the Pelham Bay School, where he passed a suc-
cessful examination and received a commission, holding the rank of
ensign at the close of the war.
In politics Mr. Criswell is a republican, and is affiliated with South-
gate Lodge No. 320, Free and Accepted Masons, and Johnson Lodge No.
185, Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Johnson, Nebraska. He is
also a member of the Society of Sons of the Revolution.
He is deeply interested in the Los Angeles Typographical Union No.
174, and has filled all its offices and represented the Union at both state
and national conventions.
William H. Moore, Jr. Throughout his residence in Los Angeles
William H. Moore, Jr., has been connected with the Board of Trade,
and for the past eight years has held the responsibilities of the office
of trustee and receiver in bankruptcy of various estates administered
through the Federal Courts.
Mr. Moore was born on Catawba Island in Lake Erie, Ottawa
county, Ohio, March 29, 1886, son of William H. and Lydia (Newton)
Moore, the latter now deceased. His father for many years has been a
captain on the Great Lakes. The Moore family is of old American
Colonial stock, and Mr. Moore is a member of the Society of the Sons
of the Revolution.
He was educated in the public schools of Port Clinton, Ohio, at-
tended a business college in Cleveland, and in 1904 at the age of eigh-
teen came to Los Angeles.
Mr. Moore is a democrat in politics, a thirty-second degree Mason,
a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Gub, and the Brentwood Coun-
try Club. In religion he is an Episcopalian. On April 17th, 1912, he
married Hermia C. Feuser, daughter of Anthony and Amelia (Besuden)
Feuser, at Cincinnati, Ohio. They have one son, William H., III.
Charles H. White. * Perhaps there is no other veteran in the serv-
ice of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company more widely known and
more popular among his associates both old and young than Charles
H. White, Chief Clerk General Passenger Office of the railroad com-
pany at Los Angeles.
He is almost a lifelong resident of California, although he was bom!
at Chelsea, Massachusetts, June 14, 1854. His parents were David and
Elizabeth J. (Campbell) White. His father, a piano maker by trade,
came west to the California mines in 1854 bringing his wife and two
children, one of them being Charles H., then only a few weeks old.
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David White was killed in the mines in 1855. Charles H. White went
back to Boston with his mother in 1856 but in the winter of 1862 the
family again came west, locating in Klamath county, Oregon, where he
attended school. In 1865 he lived at Areata in Humboldt county, where
he continued schooling and in 1873 the family located in Los Angeles.
In the fall of 1873 Mr. White entered the service of the Soutiiern
Pacific Railroad Company as clerk and assistant to the agent John M li-
ner. Later he was advanced in responsibilities to the post of ticket
agent, and held that until 1900, in which year he was made chief clerk.
One incident related by a newspaper correspondent not long ago
will serve to indicate Mr. White's initiative as a railroad man under tha
old regime. "In 1886 a falling out between the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe brought on a rate war. Round trip tickets from points as far
east as the Missouri River were hammered down to fifteen dollars.
Charlie White, who then conducted the Southern Pacific Office in the
Baker Block and had full authority to make new fares, surprised the
rival road by establishing a tourist rate of just one dollar."
May 4, 1879, Mr. White married Miss Nellie M. Daniels. They
have two children: Charles H., who died several years ago; and David.
Mr. White is a republican in politics, is a member of the Railroad
Traffic Association, the Pioneers of Los Angeles County, is a Mason,
a member of the National Union, Knights of the Maccabees and re-
ligiously a member of the Christian Science church.
Martin C. Aguirre. While all classes of citizens know and admire
the career and personality of Martin C. Aguirre in Southern California,
his name and services have an even wider recognition, being known
to penologists and practically all the great class of scholars and students
interested iii prison reform. Mr. Aguirre has spent most of his l.fe
in some official position reciuiring contact with the criminal element, and
while his life has been one of vivid interest and adventure, it is possi-
ble here to note only its salient details.
Mr. Aguirre was born in San Diego, California, son of J. A. and
Rosaria Aguirre. His father was a native of Spain, coming to America
at the age of sixteen, and for a number of years owned ships which
sailed between Southern California and the Ori:nt and Central Ameri-
can ports. Martin Aguirre is the youngest in a family of four children.
He was educated in public and private schools, and received his higher
training in Santa Clara College. As a young man he was in ths en-ploy
of J. W. Woolfskin and when only nineteen accepted the opportumty
to become deputy in the sheriff's office, an opportunity that his really
been converted into a life career. He was elected the first republican
constable in Los Angeles in 1887. In those early days one daring in-
stance of courage and resourcefulness on the part of Mr. Aguirre did
much to establish his popularity and reputation throughout Los Angeles
county. February 22nd, 1886, while he was serving as deputy sherifif,
he risked his own life again and again to save a number of women and
childrn v'ho were in dire danger as a result of flood waters. A group
of people had become marooned on a temporary island in the midst of
the floods and Mr. Aguirre on the back of his horse made several trips
until he had rescued more than twenty persons, cMefly women and chil-
dren. In the bst attempt he nearly lost his own life.
At the following convention Mr. Aguirre was nominated for ^her'ff
and defeated Tom Rowan, then chairman of Board of Supervisors. He
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later received the nomination by acclamation and was defeated by a
very small majority largely on account of the opposition at that time
prevailing through the instrumentality of the A. P. A. to all Catholic
candidates.
Probably the service which gave him his widest fame was the
four and a half years he spent as warden of the State Penitentiary at
San Quentin. At that time the subject of prison reform was not so
much a popular subject of discussion as in recent years, and in fact
the reform of prison life had only a few advocates. Mr. Aguirre took
up many problems involved in the subject from a practical standpoint,
yet he established principles which even today are recognized as sound
and incorporated in the body of constructive measures dealing with the
subject. He weeded out all the dope in San Quentin under Governor
Gage's administration, something the prison has not been free from be-
fore or since Mr. Aguirre was warden. He established the shower
baths in the prison and allowed the prisoners to play baseball, hand
ball and other games, and changed jute mill from steam to electricity,
which it is today in San Quentin prison. After his term at San Quen-
tin expired Mr. Aguirre went to Central America and was engaged by
different governments to overhaul prisons and introduce his different
methods of prison management. He was on his way to fill a similar
engagement for the Cuban government when on account of a yellow
fever outbreak he returned to Los Angeles. He then accepted a re-
appointment as deputy sheriff and has been a deputy continuously
since then and in point of service is now the senior in the sheriff's de-
partment of the County Government. He never had a single escape
while sheriff' of the county or warden of San Quentin penitentiary.
Sheriffs W. A. Hammell and J. C. Cline were deputies under Mr. Aguirre
while he was sheriff.
Numberless incidents might be cited to prove that Mr. Aguirre has
throughout his long official career been distinguished for utter fearless-
ness, determination and administrative efficiency. Pie has engaged in
many criminal hunts and never once has he delegated to another man a
more dangerous part than he himself had assumed. In politics he has
always been a stanch republican. Mr. Aguirre has never married.
Rt. Rev. Joseph S.vrsfifxd Gl.vss, C. M., D. D., LL. D. Though
his duties since June 1, 1915, have been as bishop of Salt Lake, and his
official residence at the Cathedral in Salt Lake City, Bishop Glass still
feels a great interest in Los Angeles and California, where his services
as president of St. Vincent's College were of the broadest and most
constructive usefulness.
Joseph Sarsfield Glass was born at Bushnell, Illinois, Jslarch 13,
1874, a son of James and Jilary Edith (Kelly) Glass. He attended the
parochial schools at Sedalia, Missouri, several years, and in 1887 first
came to Los Angeles. Pie was a student at St. Vincent's College four
years, after which, returning to Missouri, he entered the St. Mary's
Apostolic College at Perryville, completed his course of study there, and
in 1891 became a novice of the Congregation of the Mission. He took
his Philosophy and Theology in St. Mary's Seminar)', in Perry County,
Missouri, and was ordained a priest by Bishop George Montgomery in
St. Vincent's Church at Los Angeles August 15, 1897. He also studied
abroad at Rome, attending the University De Urbe (Minerva) and
graduated in 1899 with the degree D. D. On his return to America he
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taught Dogmatic Theology in St. Mary's Seminary' in Missouri in 1899-
1900, and the following year held the chair of Moral Theology and the
office of Director of Seminarians.
Los Angeles has undoubtedly always exercised a strong hold upon
his affections, and he considered it a most congenial destin\- when he
was appointed president of St. Vincent's College in 1901. At the same
time he was made pastor of St. Vincent's Church of that city. He was
president of the college ten years, and during that time did much to ele-
vate the standards of the institution and give it first rank among the
educational institutions of Southern California. He broadened the cur-
riculum to a full university course, introduced technical branches of in-
struction and increased the attendance so as to make necessary a large
addition to the college building. He remained its president until 1911
and continued as pastor of St. Vincent's Church until 1915. He was
consecrated Bishop of Salt Lake August 24, 1915.
Bishop Glass has been identified with a number of educational and
religious organizations, including Bishop Conaty's Diocesan Council, the
Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Public Library, and was honorary
president of the Alumni Society of St. Vincent's College. While a res-
, ident of Los Angeles he was a member of the University Club, the Young
Men's Institute, and in every way was an individual source working for
the best interests of the city and state. During an Eastern tour of the
"Mission Play," its author named Bishop Glass the "Bishop of the Mis-
sion Play."
In 1917 the University of Niagara (New York) made Bishop Glass
a Doctor of Laws, and in 1919 he was appointed by Cardinal Gibbons to
membership in the National Catholic War Council. Bishop Glass was
also a member of the Committee of Bishops appointed to prepare the
program for the meeting of the Bishops of the United States of America
in Washington in September, 1919.
M. Jessie York, one of the prominent women of Southern Cali-
fornia, member of the Board of Education of Los Angeles, having been
elected Jutje 3, 1919. Miss York, who is the daughter of Judge Waldo
M. York, was one of twenty-two candidates in the primaries, fourteen
of whom were nominated. She stood ninth in the list, and it is a matter
of interest that her father was also ninth when he was made candidate
for the Board of Education a few years ago. In the election he received
the third largest vote, while Miss York stood fourth.
Miss York comes by her talents and abilities naturally. Her father
was for many years a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles
County. She is a granddaughter of Rev. George F. Whitworth, D. D.,
one of the best known missionaries in the Northwest and founder of
Whitworth College in Washington, and she is a sister of Judge John M.
York. She graduated from the Pasadena High School, and from the
Cumnock School of Oratory. She was also a student in the University
of California Summer School and took special work for one term at
Stanford University. Several years she has been engaged in public work
as an elocutionist and in various philanthropies. At one time she gave
private lessons in physical culture and elocution and drilled students for
intercollegiate debates and oratorical contests. Later she was head of
the department of oratory and physical culture in Occidental College.
For several yeai-s she was a member of the Hospital Board of the Chris-
tian Endeavor Society of Los Angeles County. In politics Miss York
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is a republican. She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Los Angeles.
In thes; stirring modern times, when the question of the right of
women to vote is settled in California and almost settled in the nation,
Miss York feels the satisfaction that comes to a person who has labored
in a long and difficult cause, against great obstacles, with a present
realization perhaps greater than her most sanguine expectations. Miss
York was a suffragist even while in high school. Just before graduating
from high school she wrote, "Why Women Should Vote." This essay
was entered in a prize contest conducted by the California State
Woman's Christian Temperance Union for Southern California, was
awarded first prize, and there is an mteresting p^oof that it accomplished
a great deal of good. A number of years later an American lady touring
Switzerland sent her a copy of a newspaper published at Geneva con-
taining a French translation of this essay, so that it is not far from the
truth to say that the words of the high school girl were read around the
world.
Judge Waldo M. York. During the past quarter of a century the
Superior Court of Los Angelas County has had almost continuously a
York as one of the judges. The present Superior Judge, John M. York,
is a son of Judge Waldo M. York, who for over twelve years held and
dignified this high judicial office. Judge Waldo M. York is one of the
old St attorneys at the California bar and has achieved an important
distinction as a lawyer, juflge and citizen of the Pacific Coast.
He was born January 18, 1846, across the continent at Dixmont,
twenty miles from Bangor, Maine, only son of David P. and Sarah
(Vinal) York. His father was a thrifty farmer in Penobscot Count)',
and a son of a Baptist minister. Members of the Vinal family were sea-
faring peopb as a rule, and Sarah Vinal's father was a sea captain.
Two of her brothers became eminent professional men, one a Philadel-
phia physician and the other a judge in Connecticut. Still another of her
brothers was a respected public servant in Maine for over forty years as
a member of the Legislature and in other public offices. Sarah Vinal
York died in January, 1890, and her husband six years later.' They had
only two children, the daughter. Mrs. Albert Mudgett, dying some years
ago at Dixmont, Maine.
Waldo M. York acquired a good education in his native state. At
the age of seventeen he passed a successful examination for a certificate
to teach, and after that until he was twenty-two he taught school, worked
on his father's farm, and continued his own education in private schools.
He was principal of a high school at the age of twenty. He was admitted
to the bar in the Supreme Court of Maine at the age of twenty-two, and
immediately began practice and has rounded out more than a tuli half
century of active membership in the legal profession.
He early sought the Far West as the arena of his action and service.
In the spring of 1871 he moved to Seattle, then in the Territory of
Washington, and just beginning its growth as an important city of the
Northwest. He opened an office for the practice of law, and was soon
given good patronage. He had the ability of the New Englander, was a
good scholar, and by studious habits and hard work attracted friends and
clients on every hand. In 1872, at the age of twenty-six. and after a res-
idence of only a little more than one year in Seattle, he was elected Judge
of the Probate Court of King County, an office he held two terms. He
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resigned to renew his connection with the practice of law at San Fran-
cisco. While at Seattle he married the eldest daughter of Rev. George
F. Whitworth, D. D., a prominent Presbyterian divine of Washington
Territory. His marriage was not the only proof of his confidence in the
Whitworth family, since in San Francisco he began the practice of law
in partnership with his wife's brother, John M. Whitworth. It was with
general regret that the people of Seattle parted with Judge York, who
had distinguished himself while Probate Judge, and it was the general
opinion that he might have had that office as long as he desired.
Judge York practiced law in San Francisco for twelve years. The
firm York & Whitworth was employed in much important litigation
throughout the state. One case in which Judge York succeeded in obtain-
ing a judgment for his clients involved property worth over a million
dollars, and several, other cases related to valuable and important inter-
ests. Judge York's home while in practice in San Francisco was at
Berkeley, where he became interested in real estate and still has property
there, and was equally interested in the afJairs of municipal government.
He served four years as city attorney of Berkeley. While there he wrote
many articles for the local newspapers on topics of municipal reform,
and busied himself with much other authorship of articles relating to
the laws of the state and national politics. His life in the West made
him an interested student of the Indian question. An essay of his pub-
lished in 1877 brought out a doctrine seldom advocated at that time,
requiring that the laws establishing and maintaining Indian reservations
were wrong, and that Indians should be treated as American citizens,
and held amenable to the same laws and business regulations as other
people.
About 1S87 Charles A. Shurtleff became a member of the firm, the
title of which was York, Whitworth & Shurtleli". Soon afterward, in
1889, on account of overwork and a desire for change of climate, Judge
York left San Francisco and came to Los Angeles, where he has been a
resident for thirty years. His reputation as a lawyer had preceded him,
and there was little opportunity to rest from the strenuous routine of
labor which had engaged him at San Francisco, but the climate of
Southern California soon restored him to vigorous health.
In the fall of 1890 James McLachlan was elected district attorney of
Los Angeles County. Always an important office, at that time it was
extremely so, in view of the litigation that had to be handled by Mr.
McLachlan and his force. Mr. AIcLachlan endeavored to organize his
office .so that no outside assistance would be required in the managetnent
of the cases. Among others selected for his deputies Judge York was
proffered the position of chief deputy. The ofifer was a distinction in
itself, since Mr. York had no personal acquaintance with Mr. McLach-
lan. For two years he handled much of the civil litigation for Los
Angeles County. One of the cases, justly celebrated, was the railroad
tax case, in which Judge York contended that the assessment of railroad
property by the State Board of Equalization was legal, notwithstanding
a franchise was assessed with other property at a gross sum, and he
successfully contended that the franchise assessed was a state and not a
Federal franchise, and therefore subject to taxation. He also appeared
in the bank tax cases, and in the Tahiti Orange Tree case, where he suc-
cessfully contended that a ship load of orange trees infested with scale,
imported from the Tahiti Islands, was a public nuisance. Judgment by
the court for the destruction of the infected trees was rendered, and under
it the trees were destroyed.
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Judge York, after two years with the district attorney's office,
formed a partnership with Mr. McLachlan under the name McLachlan
& York, a firm that had a great and important practice, representing
several public officials, acting as attorneys for the State Bank Com-
missioners for Southern California, for the public administrator of Los
Angeles County, for the Whittier State School, as well as private and
corporate interests.
In 1893 Hon. W. P. Wade, one of the judges of the Superior Court
of Los Angeles County, died. The first of Januarj' following Governor
Markham appointed Judge York to fill the vacancy. It was an unex-
pected choice of a man whose appointment gave most general satisfac-
tion to all concerned. In the fall of 1894 the republican convention con-
sidered eight candidates for the two places on the Superior bench to be
filled. Judge York was the only candidate nominated at the first ballot.
His opponent in the subsequent campaign was a lawyer of learning and
ability, who had received the nomination from both the democratic and
populist parties, but Judge York had a large majority at the polls. His
term of office ran for six years, beginning January 1, 1895. In Novem-
ber, 1900, he was re-elected to the Superior bench, and his second term
began January 1, 1901. When his term of service expired January,
1907, he had given thirteen years to the onerous and important office,
and his record throughout was entitled to the commendation it received.
Judge York, who has been much in public life, is noted as a public
speaker and has received numerous honors during his residence in
Southern California. In 1898, when the term of United States Senator
Stephen M. White expired, his name was urged for the vacancy, but he
refused to make any active campaign. He served as a member of the
Board of Education of Los Angeles in 1915-16. Judge York is a re-
publican in politics, a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Associa-
tion, the City Club of Los Angeles, the New England Society, and the
State of Maine Society of California. Mrs. York is a member of the
First Presbyterian Church and has given much time to Red Cross work.
Judge York is still busy with his law practice in the Merchants Trust
Building, 207 South Broadway. His home is at 1129 West Twenty-
.second street.
Both his children are prominent in Los Angeles aft'airs. His daugh-
ter. Miss M. Jessie York, is now a member of the Board of Educavion
of Los Angeles. His son. Judge John M. York, is now serving his eighth
year as judge of the Superior Court.
Herman Washington Frank, president of the Harris & Frank
Company, one of the oldest and largest commercial houses on the Pacific
Coast, concerned himself so intimately with the affairs and institutions
of Los Angeles during the last thirty years that his name has come to
be associated not with any one line of business or civic activity, but with
the growth and welfare of Los Angeles as a whole.
Mr. Frank is a Western man, having been born at Portland, Ore-
gon. July 4, 1860. His father was a pioneer merchant, establishing him-
self in business at Portland as early as 1854. H. W. Frank was well
educated, attending Whitman Seminary, now Whitman College, at Walla
Walla, Washington. When only fourteen years old he began his busi-
ness career in a country store. The experience may have been monoton-
ous at tmes, but the training was invaluable, since it gave him a first-
hand knowledge of many branches of commerce. He served as assistant
postmaster, telegraph operator, and also as assistant agent for Wells
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Fargo & Company. One of the first messages he ever received over the
telegraph wire was one telHng of the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes
in 1876. Thi.s message he posted on the windows of the store for the
information of the local rustics.
About that time, in 1876, he removed to San Francisco. Here he
became connected with a wholesale clothing house, and was assistant
bookkeeper, cashier and traveling sales agent over Oregon and Idaho.
That was before Idaho had any railroads, and the customary method of
travel was by sleigh or stage. Frequently two days and nights were
spent between towns of any size. Mr. Frank was first in business for
himself as a general merchant at Alameda.
On coming to Los Angeles, in 1887, he joined Mr. L. Harris, a
veteran merchant of the coast, and in 1888 they formed the company
of Harris & Frank, now a corporation. Their first store was at Temple
and Spring streets. This firm erected the first building ever leased in
Los Angeles, known as the Allen Block. Harris & Frank now own and
occupy the building at 437 South Spring street. Continuously since 1887
Mr. Frank has been a Los Angeles merchant. He is also a director of
the Merchants National Bank, secretary of the Riverside Vineyard Com-
pany, owning eighteen hundred acres of land in Riverside County, and
is president of the L. Harris Realty Company, Incorporated.
Mr. Frank's friends say that he has given more time to public affairs
than any other man in the city. In 1895 he was the second elected pres-
ident of the Merchants Association, and for many year.s has been identi-
fied with the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. He was chair-
man of the committee of this organization which raised a large fund and
put unemployed men to work during the hard times succeeding the
Spanish-American war. He was also chairman of a committee to raise
funds for the Times sufferers after the explosion of the Times Building.
With Judge Charles H. Sibert, he succeeded in raising thirty-five thous-
and dollars for this purpose. He is credited with having raised more
money for direct burdens of charity than any other one man in Los
Angeles. Mr. Frank for fifteen years was president of the Associated
Charities, and was father of the Tag Day idea on the Pacific Coast. Five
successive Tag Day yearly campaigns were held with great success under
his iniation and the plan was adopted by many other cities on the coast.
Mr. Frank was a member of the School Board of Los Angeles from
1895 to 1914, and president of the board two dift'erent times. He is a
director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and director for the
Red Cross Chapter of Los Angeles, and is a former vice president of
the Municipal League. Mr. Frank is a Mason, Shriner, Maccabee, Elk
and Woodman of the World.
In 1888 he married a daughter of Mr. L. Harris, his business part-
ner. They have two sons, Lawrence P. Frank, who served in the United
States Navy, and is now treasurer of Harris & Frank, Incorporated, and
Alvin FI. Frank, of the firm Frank & Lewis, stocks and bonds. Mr. H.
W. Frank, while not a politician, is a firm believer in the idea that
business men should take an active interest in civic affairs and help in
deciding the policies of our country.
John N. Metc.\lf has enjoyed much more than the average routine
and associations of the successful lawyer. His enterprise has been
directed constructively in behalf of much important development work in
Southern California. For the past sixteen years he has been a resident
and has engaged in the active practice of law at Los Angeles.
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He was born at Hamburg, in Fremont County, Iowa, May 2, 1872. '
His father, Thomas E. Aletcalf, was a prominent Cahfornian, who set-
tled at Pasadena in 1883, being one of the pioneers of the Iowa Colony
and at one time owning the heart of that beautiful city. He was also
founder of the town of Escondido, and left his mark in developing
townsites in the West. The mother of Mr. Aletcalf was Elizabeth Met-
calf, who at the age of thirteen crossed the plains to Colorado with her
parents. They drove by carriage from their big plantation in the South
to the Missouri River, and thence she went in a prairie train to the site
of Denver, Colorado, and while en route she witnessed the killing of
several members of the .party by Indians.
John N. Metcalf graduated from the San Diego High School and
was a member of the graduating class of 1895 from Leland Stanford
University. He was the first treasurer and nominated the first president
of the first class and also nominated as the first president of the first
student body at that university. After leaving university Mr. Metcalf
read law in the offices of Senator John D. Works and Judge O. A. Trip-
pett, while they were practicing at San Diego. His home and offices
were in San Diego until he removed to Los Angeles. At one time he
was in partnership with Judge Frank G. Finlayson and former Senator
Y. R. del Valle. For four years he was assistant district attorney at San
Diego under Judge T. L. Lewis, now presiding judge of the San Diego
courts, and for four years was attorney for the State Harbor Commis-
sion.
Mr. Metcalf has had many active interests both as a lawyer anil
otherwise in San Diego coast land and San Joaquin ranch lands, and also
in oil and mineral resources. He was the discoverer of a use to be made
of the coast shore pebbles for grinding cement. Fonnerly all this mate-
rial was imported from Norway and Sweden. He furnished the city of
Los Angeles all the pebbles used during the construction of the Los
Angeles aqueduct. Mr. Metcalf also discovered valuable oil and gas
lands in Central California and has been advisor and attorney for a
number of large oil and gas corporations in the state.
Mr. Metcalf has always taken a considerable interest in republican
politics. However, he refused any nomination for office until 1919, when
he lacked only a few votes of being put on the republican ticket at the
primaries as candidate for city attorney. Mr. Metcalf is a member of
the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Automobile Club of
Southern California, and his church associations are Episcopalian.
September 15, 1904, he married Miss May Krille of Denver, Colo-
rado. Her father was a banker and wool merchant, and for three terms
served as mayor of Trinidad, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf have
two children, EHzabeth Jane, born in 1912, and Virginia May, bom in
1913.
Mks. Margaret Talmadge, whose home is now at the Hotel Savoy,
in New York City, is mother of the famous Talmadge daughters, bright
and particular stars in the movie world.
Mrs. Talmadge's daughters are Norma, Natalie and Constance.
Norma and Constance are known to millions of the devotees of the
photoplay, and Natalie, who was formerly private secretary to Roscoe
Arbuckle, is now playing important roles in support of h?r sisters. In
another year she, too, will be featured. Nomia Talmadge was born in
Jersey City, and the other two girls in Brooklyn. They grew up in and
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around New York, and having to earn their own living, the girls took
up the movie stage. Norma went with the Vitagraph Company in 1911,
under the management of Van Dyke Brook. Leaving the Vitagraph
studio, she went with the Griffith studio, under D. W. Griffith. Later
she formed her own company, with Joseph M. Schenck as president, and
her pictures are now released through the First National Exhibitors'
Circuit. Miss Talmadge makes her home in New York City at the
Hotel St. Regis.
Norma Talmadge's best known pictures are "Safety Curtain," "Her
Only Way," "Poppy," "The Moth," "The Forbidden City," the scenes
of which are laid in China ; "The Heart of Wetona," "Probation Wife,"
"The Isle of Conquest," "She Loves and Lies," "A Daughter of Two
Worlds," "The Woman Gives."
Constance, the youngest daughter, made a wonderful hit in D. W.
Griffith's presentation of "Intolerance. ' She was the "Mountain Girl"
in the liahylonian scene. Mr. Griffith has taken this scene from "'In-
tolerance'' and has used it as basis for a wonderful new picture. Con-
stance next became a star for Lewis J. Salzwick, and made a series of
comedy dramas for him, including "Sauce for the Goose," "Silk Stock-
ings" and "Good Night, Paul." Most of her pictures were made in
Los Angeles for the Select Films. Then she formed her own company,
with Joseph M. Schenck as president, and during 1919-1920 starred in
"A Temj)eramental Wife," "A Virtuous Vamp," "Two Weeks," "lu
Search of a Sinner" and "The Love Expert," all adapted by John Emer-
son and Anita Loos.
Norma Talmadge first became interested in the movies while cutting
out pictures from magazines. Her first pictures were made with Flor-
ence Turner and Maurice Costello. She has the reputation of being
one of the best dressed girls on the movie stage, and is the fashion editor
of tlie Photoplay Magazine, writing twelve articles per year on clothes.
She is very fond of swimming, and Constance is equally fond of dancing
and fast motoring. Natalie's favorite sport is gulfing. The family have
made several cross-country trips and for several years maintained a home
in Los Angeles, but now all live in New York.
Reginaldo Fr.ancisco Del V.\lle. A member of the Los Angeles
bar for forty-five years, the routine work and varied services of Reginaldo
Francisco Del Valle in the law and in public affairs constitute a real
and worthy distinction. He is one of the prominent California lawyers,
and has long been a leader of the democratic party in the state.
He was boin at Los Angeles December 15, 1854, son of Ygnacio
and Ysabel (Valera) Del Valle. He was liberally educated. From
1867 to June, 1871, he was a student in St. Vincent's College. He then
entered Santa Clara College, at Santa Clara, where he was graduated
bachelor of science in June, 1873. He was soon afterward admitted to
the liar and began practice at Los Angeles, and was admitted to plead
in the Supreme Court. In 1893 he was admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Del Valle is an authority
on parliamentary law and has carried a large private clientage through
many successful cases in all the courts. In a local way he served for
twelve years and is now reappointed as a member of the Board of Public
Service in charge of the water and power department of Los Angeles,
part of the time serving as president of the board.
In 1879 he was elected to the State Assembly of California from
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Los Angeles on the democratic ticket, and was re-elected in 1880. In
the latter year he also served as a presidential elector on the democratic
ticket headed by Hancock and English. In 1881 he received a com-
plimentary vote in the State Legislature for speaker of the House. In
1882 he was elected senator from Los Angeles County, and during his
term of four years served part of the time as president pro tem. In
1884 he was a democratic candidate for Congress. Four years later he
was chairman of the State Convention at Los Angeles, and in 1890 was
nominated for lieutenant governor. In 1892 he was chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions of the State Convention at Fresno. In 1894
he was chairman of the State Convention at San Francisco. Mr. Del
Valle has been a member of every State Convention of his party in Cali-
fornia for over thirty years. His services as a campaign orator have
been in demand both here and elsewhere. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention at Kansas City some years ago. In
the first Wilson election he was presidential elector, one of the two
democratic electors out of a total of thirteen electors. In the second
Wilson election he was also an elector. He was sent by Wilson as
special United States representative to investigate Mexican conditions
in 1913. Mrs. Del Valle took an active place in the social sphere created
by her husband. After almost thirty years of married companionship
and home life, Mrs. Del Valle passed away March 13, 1920. She was
the mother of two daughters, Mrs. Lucretia Louise Grady and Mrs. Allan
V. Duncan. Lucretia Louise before her marriage became widely known
through her wonderful work as the star in John S. McGroarty's "Mission
Play." Her husband, Mr. Henry F. Grady, served as a dollar-a-year
man at Washington during the World war, and at present is investigat-
ing banking conditions in Europe for our government.
Madame Constance Balfour. One of the results of the titanic
conflict between the dominant powers of the world has been the reten-
tion in this country of artists of international fame who otherwise might
not have been induced to give to their own land all of the benefit accruing
from their genius. Madame Constance Qalfour, whose name is known
all over the civilized world to music lovers, has been induced to devote
her great talents to voice culture and concert work with Los Angeles
as her headquarters, for the present at least. In spite of her metro-
politan training and manner. Madame Balfour is a native-born Amer-
ican, and on both sides of her house traces back to Mayflower stock.
Both of her parents are still living.
Carefully educated by parents who early recognized the genius of
their daughter, Madame Balfour attended a girls' finishing school at Mt.
Carroll, Illinois, following which she took a two years' post-graduate
course at Lincoln. Nebraska. Having decided to take up the arduous
training for a musical career, the ambitious girl went to Europe and for
eighteen months studied in Paris with the Italian Sbriglia, and then for
the subsequent three months was at Berlin under the best masters. She
then returned to America, but later went back to Europe, and was sing-
ing in London when war was declared in 1914.
Madame Balfour is not only a singer of note, but a teacher of voice
culture. She has sung in England, Scotland, Wales, South Africa and
the United States, doing both concert and operatic work, her first con-
cert in tlys country being in 1909, when she toured the Middle West.
The first appearance in London of Madame Balfour was before the
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mayor of Westminster in 1911, and she continued to sing in the city of
London until 1914. For one season ]Madanie Balfour was special soloist
with the Imperial Russian Ballet, directed by Alexander Kosloff, at
Devonshire Park, Eastborn. ,Not only did she sing at all of the larger
theatres of London, but toured England with Von Vescey, recognized aS
England's greatest violinist, during which period she was assisted by
Winifred Christie. In the United States Madame Balfour sang with
Nordica, Beecham, Beecham Symphony Orchestra of England, Ben
Davies and Hugo Heinz. She was soloist for the Ellis Chib on five dif-
ferent occasions. This club was established in 1888. In 1915 she was
soloist at the San Diego Exposition. When the Stratford Inn was
opened, Madame Balfour sang in the open air theatre. Upon three
separate occasions she has been the soloist for the Los Angeles Sym-
phony Orchestra. In New York she sang at the Hippodrome and the
open air stadium. An opera, "The Legend," a lyric tragedy in one act,
by Jacques Byrne, music by Joseph Breil, was written especially for
Madame Balfour and dedicated to her. This opera was produced at the
Metropolitan, in New York, during the season of 1918-19.
On December 29, 1895, she was united in marriage at London, Eng-
land, with Henry Balfour, a singer of note, and they became the parents
of one daughter, Eveline, who at the early age of twelve years shows
great promise of developing into a musical genius both in voice and
piano. Madame Balfour is interested in the Dominant CTub to nie
extent of being one of its active members.
Nature has given Madame Balfour much, voice, person, musical
temperament and dramatic aptitude, and these she has improved and
developed. She has the true fire of genius, and has learned through
years of ceaseless study to compass repose and symmetry. This country
has not produced many artists, but in Madame Balfour is to be found
the qualities once thought could only be developed through generations
of association with the masters of musical cultivation in the old world.
For the sake of her countrymen, it is to be hoped that Madame Balfour
will be content to rest upon her foreign gathered laurels and devote
herself to delighting American audiences, as she is so well able to do.
John C. Austin. The old idea that America is an inartistic nation
no longer prevails as to the United States, having been dissipated by
notable achievements along many lines, not the least of which is modern
architecture. Some of the finest work of American architects can be
found in Southern California. Those familiar with the development of
architectural ideas in seeking to harmonize the building lines with the
unique symmetry of nature have no difficulty in recognizing the work-
manship of John C. Austin, one of the well known architects of Los
Angeles and one of the oldest members of his profession in Southern
California.
Mr. Austin was born February 13, 1870, near Banbury, Oxford-
shire, England. His parents, Richard W. and Jane Elizabeth Austin,
were also natives of England. Early in life he had the advantage of
private tutors, and when his artistic talent became unmistakable, he
served an architectural apprenticeship as a student in the office of Wil-
liam S. Barwick, a leading English architect. Coming to the United
States in 1891, he remained one year with Benjamin Linfoot, a prom-
inent Philadelphia architect, and then returned to the Barwick firm in
England. His brief residence had convinced him that America was the
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real field for his future work, and after six months he came again to
the United States, this time locating at San Francisco, where for two
and a half years he was with the firm of William Mooser & Son. Then,
in 1894, he established himself in Los Angeles, his business judgment
leading him to believe that in the upbuilding of this city he would find
ample opportunity lor the exercise of his talents. That belief has been
thoroughly justified by the facts connected with a quarter of a century
of residence. In that time it can be confidently asserted no other mem-
ber of his profession has designed and constructed a greater variety of
buildings, all of which, however, express such essential features that
stamp them as products of Austin, the architect. His professional work
has acquired an extensive range, including all the important towns and
cities of Southern California, in other states and in British Columbia.
One of the largest commissions assigned Mr." Austin was the designing
and building of the new Los Angeles High School, in the western sec-
tion of the city, a building complete in arrangement, costing more
than $750,000.
A partial list of the buildings designed in recent years by Mr.
Austin include the following: The Wright, CaHender & .\ndrews Build-
ing, at Fourth and Hill streets; the Belvidere Hotel, at Santa Barbara;
the Virginia Hotel, at Long Beach ; many local schools and churches,
including in the latter the First Methodist Episcopal Churches of both
Los Angeles and Pasadena ; the residence of Madam Erskine M^ Ross,
at Vermont and Wilshire boulevards ; the California and Angelus Hos-
pitals ; ever}- building constructed in Del Mar ; the Darby, Fremont.
Leighton and Hershey i\rms Hotels, and scores of other structures.
A man of large affairs and always busy, Mr. Austin finds oppor-
tunity for social relaxation in the Jonathan Club, which he served two
years as president, is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, has
long been a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and is
a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, England. Worthy enterprises and benevolent
movements have always gained his support and he has been particularly
interested in the Los Angeles Humane Society for Children, serving as
president of that organization. Taking only a good citizen's part in the
field of politics, he has maintained a consistent attitude.
In 1902 Mr. Austin married Miss Hilda Violet Mytton at Los
Angeles. Their children are Marjorie, Gwendolen, William, Violet,
Angela, Harold and Phyllis. Mr. Austin has a daughter from a former
marriage. Miss Dorothy Austin.
Pasadena Milit.xkv Academy. Founded during the first year of
America's participation in the World w.ar, but only incidentally thereto,
as a matter of fact, as a result of a long cherished vision and ideal, the
Pasadena Military Academy owes its birth and healthy growth solely to
the determined efforts and executive ability of one woman, Mrs. John
H. Henry of 1199 Oak Knoll avenue.
Mrs. Henrj- is a Bostonian, a member of the Coolidge family, dis-
tinguished in many generations in that state. She grew up in the
cultured atmosphere of Boston and, with her husband, has long been
interested in charities and education. Coming to Pasadena about
1910 to make their home, she early recognized a lack of schools
in and around that beautiful suburb. Having a l)oy of her i:>\vn
for whom she had definite ideas of schooling and not wanting to
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send him away from home, she finally determined to put her ideals
into concrete form and build a school sucli as she had in mind for her
own son. It did not require the lesson of the great World war to con-
vince her that one of the fundamentals of her ideal school was a military
character, but it was to be more than a formal military school, and
equally indispensable were the sweet home influences and the moral
atmosphere which are so notably absent in many military academies.
Other things upon which she placed great emphasis in her plans was a
perfect cuisine, a clean dormitory, and a wholesome environment in
every respect. Securing the property and grounds of the Annandale
Country Club of sixteen acres, a dormitory was added for the accommo-
dation of forty pupils. The school was opened October 8, 1917, with
an original enrollment of ei^'hteen pupils. The first curriculum provided
for instruction beginniug with the third and ending with the eighth grade.
Soon it was found necessary to enlarge this scope so as to include the
first and second years of high school. The original faculty consisted of
six members, with Captain Thomas A. Davis, B. A., in charge. Captain
Davis remained through five semesters. Until recently the school was
called the Pasadena Army and N'avy Academy, but in the early part of
1920 a reorganization was effected and the name changed to the Pasadena
Military Academy, with C. M. Wood as superintendent.
Experience has thoroughly approved the military nature of the
school. Apart from the patriotic value of such training, military dis-
cipline is the best so far devised to insure system,, regularity, all-round
physical development, obedience, promptness, neatness and alertness, and
even parents most strongly opposed to militarism recognize the benefits
of the military system in early education.
To leave nothing undone that may complete her ideal, Mrs. Henr\-
contemplates extensive improvements in equipment and buildings, involv-
ing expenditures of about sixty thousand dollars. Architects are now
drawing plans for a gymnasium and indoor swimming pool. It is planned
to erect a group of attractive cottages on the campus for the use of the
faculty, also build a new dormitory, thus providing room for a hundred
boarding pupils. Mrs. Henry's ambition is to make the Pasadena Mili-
tary Academy the finest school of its kind in the West, and the demon-
strated results of her first experience and her well-known determination
make that achievement hardly a matter of doubt, .\fter the school vear
ending in 1920 the elementary grades will l)e dropped and it will be a
strictly preparatory school, no boys being taken under the fifth grade,
and the age limit being e.vtended from ten to eighteen, instead of from
eight to fourteen. The highest standards of scholarshiji have been set,
and a definite curriculum has been planned b\- one of the foremost edu-
cators of the state. The entire school will be thoroughly graded. It is
undenominational, but even a casual visitor at once recognizes the Chris-
tian and moral influences thrown about the cadets.
Mrs. Henry feels that the reputation of the school is yet to be
made, but that the results already obtained are contributing to such a
reputation, and justify the wisdom of her plans and efforts. The class
of pupils sent to the school is a good index of its character. The school
is not a reformatory, nor are its advantages designed for the unselected
and unclassified body of students that a public school must serve. It is a
school for wholesome, normal, healthy and intelligent boys where every
possible influence is exerted to impress upon them the value of thorough
scholarship, good moral discipline, and exalted ideals of life. Mrs. Henry
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is vitally interested in the welfare of the school and personally attends
the faculty meetings, but otherwise her relationship is a nominal one, best
expressed in the word "godmother," by which she is afifectionately known
among the boys.
The property was originally purchased from funds donated by Mr.
Henry, but whether the sctiooI becomes self-supporting or is supported
by donations or otherwise, the plans for its future growth will be carried
out systematically. There is a significance that should not be overlooked
in the fact that the school from the first has been designedly military
and for the education of the coming manhood of the country, and yet
was founded and fostered by a woman, with no man concerned with its
inception.
Samuel L. Kreider, one of the prominent foreign shipping men of
Los Angeles, maintains offices in the Pacific Electric Building in the
furtherance of the foreign trade of Southern California.
A native of California, he was born at San Francisco July 4, 1882,
a son of Frank L. and ]\I. AI. Kreider, of Pennsylvania and New York
states, respectively. The father is a veteran of the Civil war and past
commander of Stanton Post, G. A. R., of Los Angeles. The family
moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1887, and are still enthusias-
tic residents of the City of Los Angeles.
Samuel L. Kreider was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles,
graduating from the Los Angeles High School in 1899. Between the
years 1900 and 1916 he was with the Southern Pacific Railroad, Grand
Trunk Railroad and the Salt Lake Railroad in both freight and passenger
work. For six years immediately prior to 1916 he was secretary and
general freight agent of the Independent Steamship Company. This
company closed its affairs by sale early in 1916.
In March, 1916, he began what is now perhaps the most prominent
foreign shipping and export foreign trade in the city of Los Angeles.
He was instrumental in placing Los Angeles Harbor on the same basis
with other Pacific ports in the matter of trans-continental export foreign
rates. He also aided in the formation of the Los Angeles Pacific Navi-
gation Company, which has great possibilities in aiding Los Angeles
Harbor and manufacturers and exporters generally. He was chosen to
act as agent of the Luckenbach Steamship Company, Incorporated, upon
its return to foreign service between Atlantic and Pacific ports.
Mr. Kreider has been three times commander of Stanton Camp,
Sons of Veterans, and for the year 1920 is chairman of the Foreign
Trade Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is
affiliated with all Masonic bodies, including the Scottish Rite Consistory
and the Shrine, and is a member of the Rotary Club, Los Angeles Athletic
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Automobile Club of Southern California,
World Traders of Ltss Angeles and the Transportation Club of San
Francisco. He is politically independent.
July 24, 1919, at Los Angeles, Mr. Kreider married Miss Florence
Gardiner Moore. Los Angeles was her birthplace, she was educated
through the public schools and graduated from the Los Angeles High
School in 1899. She is a member of the Friday Morning Club and
Playground Commission of Los Angeles, and interested in all educational
and charitable activities in Los Angeles.
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Captain William Thomas Helms had a long and distinguished
service with the United States Navy before he came to Los Angeles in
1906 to practice law. He has gained a high place in the legal profession,
and the rewards or honors of his later years seem pecuHarly appropriate
in view of the financial sacrifices he so cheerfully accepted as a young
man.
Captain Hehns was born in Marshall County, West Virginia, Janu-
ary 11, 1869, son of Martin B. and Lucinda (Fish) Helms. His father
served as a lieutenant in the Civil war and several other ancestors helped
make military history in the United States.
Captain Helms attended public school to the age of seventeen, and
then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he was
graduated v.'ith the A. B. degree ui 1893. He at once entered the ministry
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his first service was in covering
the Martinsville Circuit in West Virginia. He had ten appointments,
and preached at every appointment every three weeks. In order to cover
his circuit he had to travel two hundred miles between the most ! emote
missions and churches. Even now it taxes Captain Helms' memory to
understand how he was able to live on his salary of two hundred twenty-
five dollars per year. In spite of that meager income, he refused an
offer made him to teach elocution in an Eastern university at a salary of
three thousand dollars annually. While in the Martinsville Circuit he
conducted four revivals, which resulted in seven hundred fifty conversions
to the church. After the first year he was made minister at Maiden,
West Virginia, and during the year of his work there had a hundred
fifty converts. He then spent another year at McMechen, West Vir-
ginia, and while there declined an offer to attend a theological seminary.
His last work as a Methodist minister was done at Rahway, New Jersey,
where he was pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at a salary
of four hundred dollars the first year, and six hundred dollars the second
year.
President McKinley, on the recommendation of the late Colonel
Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, appointed Rev. Mr.
Helms a chaplain of the United States Navy. No one worked harder
and endured danger and responsibility more cheerfully than Chaplain
Helms. At dift'erent times he was stationed on the battleships Wabash,
Lancaster, Niagara, Oregon, Newark, Brooklyn, and during the Spanish-
American war was on Admiral Schley's flagship Brooklyn. He par-
ticipated in the reception given Admiral Schley at New York City after
the war. He was then on the Buffalo and the Kearsarge, and in 1904 was
transferred to duties at the New York Navy Yard. In June, 1906, he
was ordered to the Philippines, and was on duty in the Far East from
July 1, 1906, to July, 1908. In 1908 Captain Helms was awarded a
medal of honor by the Navy Department for services during the Boxer
rebellion in China. His post of duty during that rebellion was on the
Buffalo.
While stationed at the Navy Yard Captain Helms took up the study
of law in the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University, and
in 1905 graduated as an honor man, standing third in a class of a hun-
dred sixty. On leaving the navy he at once came to Los Angeles and
engaged in the practice of law. December 6, 1910, he was appointed
deputy district attorney under Captain Fredericks, and held tliat post
until July 3, 1916. Since then he has been busily engaged in a private
practice.
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Captain Helms is a member of the Masonic Order, the Independent
Order of Odd T'ellows and Knights of Pythias and is a republican. At
Ravenswood, West Virginia, July 5, 1893, he niarried Helen Osborne.
They have two children. Jack, born July 12, 1902, at Cameron, West
Virginia, now a student in the University of Southern California, and
John H. Clancey, who is employed with the Llewellyn Iron Works.
Ralph Arnold. California's foremost authority as a consulting
geologist and petroleum engineer came to Pasadena with his parents
when he was five years old and has always regarded that city as his
home, though probably no Californian has been called by his studies and
scientific investigations to more remote sections of the world.
On the basis of his achievements, Ralph Arnold is one of America's
most eminent scientists. To account for that prestige, gained at the age
of forty, a significant fact is that his father, a man of scientific mind and
training, lent every encouragement to the interests of the boy in scientific
lines when the normal ciiild would have been dissipating his energies and
attention over a wide variety of subjects included in a school curriculum.
Ralph Arnold was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, April 14, 1875, son
of Delos and Hannah Richardson (Mercer) Arnold. His father was a
native of New York .State, and his mother of Ohio. His father was an
early settler in Iowa and later in life was known for his attainments in
scientific and political circles.
Ralph Arnold was about five years old when his parents moved to
California and located at Pasadena. .\s a boy he traveled much with
his parents, and his instmctive interest in observing and accounting for
the facts of nature received every encouragement from his father and
mother, so that it might be said truthfully that his entire life has been
devoted to science. His first elTorts were along the lines of ornitholog}'
and geologA'. As a result of those early studies he still retains one of
the finest collections of California birds and eggs in that state. From
what has been said, it should not be inferred that his general education
was neglected, fie attended the grammar schools of Pasadena, gradu-
ated from the Pasadena High Scliool in 1894, from the Throop Poly-
technic Institute in 1896, and has several degrees from Leland Stanford
Junior University. A. B. in 1899. A. M. in 1900, and was awarded the
hood of a Doctor of Philosophy in 1902.
For about ten years Dr. Arnold gave much of his time to teaching
and work in the Government service. He was Assistant irt ^Mineralogy in
1898-99 and assistant in geolog}' in 1900-03 at Stanford University,
and was physical Director and Instructor in Physics and Chemistry at
Hoitt's School. Menlo Park, California, in 1899-1900. During the period
1900-03 he also held an appointment as Field Assistant on the United
States Geological Survey, and beginning with 1903 gave his entire time
to that bureau, being Geologic Aid in 1903-05. Paleontologist in 1903-08.
Geologist in 1908-09, and since 1909. in connection with his private prac-
tice, has served as Consulting Petroleum Engineer with the United States
Bureau of Mines. His work for the Government included a reconnais-
sance of the Tertiarj' formations of the Pacific Coast of the L^nited
States, and following this he was put in charge of the Government's in-
vestigations in the California oil fields. Mr. Arnold resigned from the
Government ser^'ice except as consulting engineer on June 1. 1909. and
since that date the sphere of his professional activities has gradually ex-
panded to include most of the oil fields of the United States. Mexico
and South America.
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In the economic field his more important work might be judged from
the preparation of reports and appraisals used in financing the following:
Union Oil Company of California, Esperanza Consolidated Oil Company
(now the General Petroleum Company), Palmer Union Oil Company,
Midwest Oil Company of Wyoming, various companies controlled by W.
P. Hanimon in California and John Hays Hammond in Mexico, and
properties held under option by the South African Gold Fields, Ltd., in
Trinidad, British West Indies.
The most important single enterprise Mr. Arnold has yet under-
taken is the organization and direction of an economic geologic survey
of the oil resources of Venezuela for the Caribbean Petroleum Com-
pany, a subsidiary of the General Asphalt Company. This is no doubt
the most extensive operation of its kind ever undertaken in South
America, no less than twenty-five American geologists and numerous
natives being employed in the investigation. Mr. Arnold has served as
Consulting Geologist and Engineer for the General Asphalt Company and
its subsidiaries, the Bermudez Company, Trinidad Lake and Caribbean
Petroleum Companies, the \"entura Oil Fields Company, Oak Ridge,
Montebello, Alliance, Esperanza Consolidated and many other Calilornia
oil companies.
While so much of his time has been devoted to the economic phase
of scientific investigation. Mr. Arnold is. equally well known as a devotee
to "pure science," and despite the multiplicity of his duties, he still shares
the enthusiasm for advancement of knowledge in the entire realm of the
geologic and related sciences. He has been a prolific writer on technical
subjects. Some of his more important contributions are : "The Paleon-
tology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San
Pedro, California," a memoir of the California Academy of Sciences, con-
sisting of four hundred pages and fifty plates; "The Tertiary and Quater-
nary Pectens of California," professional paper No. 47, United States
Geological Survey; "Paleontolog}' of the Coalinga District, California,"
bulletin No. 396, United States Geological Survey. He was also co-
author in collaboration with George H. Eldridge, Robert Anderson and
H. R. Johnson, of seven bulletins of the United States Geological Survey.
Nos. 309, 317. 321, 322, 357, 398 and 406, descriptive of the California
oil fields and various phases of the oil industry. In addition, he has
written more than fifty other articles and papers relating to the geology,
paleontology, oil and other mineral resources of California, Oregon,
Washington and Trinidad, published in various scientific and technical
publications. In connection with his work for the Treasury Department
he has written a paper, "Taxation as Related to the Oil and Gas In-
dustry," and others.
Mr. Arnold was a member of the Jury of Award, Committee on
Petroleum, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, at San Francisco
in 1915, was a member of the War Excess Profits Tax Board from
February to September, 1918: chief of the Oil and Gas Section Internal
Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department, September, 1918, to July,
1919, and was representative of the Treasury Department at the National
Chamber of Commerce Reconstruction Conference held at Atlantic City
in December, 1918; is a member of the Section of Geology and Geogra-
phy, National Research Council, 1919-21, and chairman of the Finance
Committee of the section.
Dr. Arnold was a trustee of Leland Stanford Junior University
from 1915 to 1917. He is associate editor of "Economic Geology" and
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represents this publication as a member of National Research Council.
He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological
Society of America (vice president of Pacific Coast Section), the Amer-
ican Association for Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of
London and of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. He
is a member of the California Academy of Sciences, National Geographic
Society, the Academy of Sciences at Washington, D. C, the Geological
Society of Washington, Biological Society of Washington, Seismological
Society of America, Malacological Society of London, Cooper Orni-
thological Club, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, LeConte Geological
Club, American Society of Petroleum Geologists, American Institute of
Mining Engineers (being chairman of the Petroleum Committee in 1919,
and cliairman of the Southern California Section 1918-19) and the Min-
ing and Metallurgical Society, of which he was councillor for 1919. His
membership in clubs includes Cosmos Club of Washington, Rocky Moun-
tain Club of New York, Engineers Club of San Francisco, Los Angeles
Athletic Club and the University Club of Los Angeles. He was special
lecturer on petroleum at the University of Chicago in 1914, and at Har-
vard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1915.
July 12, 1899, Dr. Arnold married Frankie Winninette Stokes,
daughter of Frank and Oraletta (Newell) Stokes of South Pasadena.
They have one daughter, Winninette, born May 13, 1918.
Dr. Fredrick P. Howard was for many years identified with the
citizenship of Los Angeles, was well known in business, and was a man
of rich and rare experience in the activities of the world. His associa-
tions were with many countries and many peoples.
An Englishman by birth, he was a native of Devonshire, born March
16, 1836. He attended Harrow University, graduated in medicine, was
connected with the London Hospital for a time, and during the Crimean
war, in which England fought Russia, he was in the government service
as a physician. Later he practiced medicine at Trinidad, in the West
Indies, at the mouth of the Orinoco River in South America, also for a
time at Georgetown, in British Guiana, and then crossed the Isthmus
of Panama and by ship reached Vancouver, British Columbia. For a
time he was in the service of the Hudson Bay Company as a physician
and surgeon. Later he made a personal survey of practically the entire
Pacific Coast in search of oil, coal and precious metals, and wrote a book
on geology, covering some of his principal observations. At San Fran-
cisco he again followed his profession, and in that city established the
first gas works. From San Francisco he came to Los Angeles, and
shortly after his arrival joined the government forces, traveling by saddle
from Los Angeles to Arizona, covering the greater part of that territory
during the height of the Apache Indian outbreaks. After his return
from Arizona he opened one of the first drug stores in Los Angeles. The
ground on which it was located is now occupied by the main Los Angeles
postoffice. He also maintained a drug store at Independence, Inyo
County, and at about that time he became associated with an English
syndicate in the manufacture of paper from the fiber of a variety of
Yucca which abounds on the Mojave Desert. For the purpose of carry-
ing out experiments in that connection, he built a paper mill at Ravena,
which was operated by water power. The old paper mill was a land-
mark for many years in that section.
On his final return to Los Angeles he engaged in the real estate
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business and was one of the well-known old time operators in that field.
He was a great lover of all nature and was particularly fond of his
flowers and garden, in the care of which his sons were instructed from
the time of childhood. To a great extent it was due to this early train-
ing that the five sons have built up two of the most successful nursery,
floral and landscape establishments in the west, namely, the firm of
Howard & Smith, in which F. H. Howard, president; O. W. Howard,
secretary, and A. P. Howard, manager, are connected, and the horticul-
tural establishment of Paul J. Howard, in which E. A. Howard is asso-
ciated.
Dr. Howard married Caroline Huber. They became the parents of
twelve children, nine living. They are Frederick H., of Los Angeles ;
Mary C, wife of Professor Van Barneveld, a well-known rnetallurgist
and mining engineer, formerly of Holland ; Edward A., Ozora W., of
Los Angeles ; Pauline, at home ; Mrs. Helen Jones, of Ventura, Cali-
fornia; Ruth Keane, wife of Dr. Charles Keane, formerly state veterin-
arian of Sacramento; Paul J., of Los Angeles, and Arthur Preston, who
during 1918 was drafted for army service at Camp Lewis, Washington.
Dr. Howard died May 5, 1900, at Los Angeles.
OzoRA W. Howard. Aside from the value of his technical services
as a landscape architect, exemplified in many of the fine estates and
civic centers of the Southwest, Ozora W. Howard is one of the best
known naturalists. Years of experience, travel and study have given
him an authoritative knowleclge of the flora and fauna of the South-
western country.
Mr. Howard is a native of Los Angeles, was born January 18, 1877,
son of Frederick P. and Caroline (Huber) Howard. His birthplace was
an old adobe building on what was then a ranch belonging to his uncle,
O. W. Childs, and in honor of whom Mr. Howard was named. This
ranch was situated between what is now Main and San Pedro streets
and Tenth and Pico streets.
He attended the old Starbuck private school, near Second and Main
streets, and later the old Eighth street grammar school at (Charity)
Grand avenue and Eighth streets. In spare time during his school days
and through vacation he worked with his brother Fred in the care of
gardens about town, which have long since been replaced by the principal
business blocks of the city. It was during this period that Mr. Howard
and his brothers all took part in the care of their father's garden, which
occupied an entire city lot adjoining the residence at Ninth and Olive
streets, where the family lived for many years.
It was due to this early training in the propagation and care of
plants that Mr. Howard and his four brothers are engaged in the nursery
business today, and in which the oldest brother, Mr. F. H. Howard, was
the instigator.
At the end of the term of 1892, when, at the age of fifteen, Mr.
Floward left school and began working during the fruit seasons with a
packing company, and at other times with his brother, F. H., who was
then in partnership with Mr. G. W. Smith in the firm of Howard &
Smith.
As far back as he can remember, Mr. Howard has been a student of
natural history, spending all the spare hours, besides those he could
steal, in tramping through the country in search of various natural his-
tory specimens. In 1895, when, at the age of eighteen, he made a month's
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trip by team into the head of the Sisquoc Canyon, in northern Santa
Barbara County, and secured an egg of the ahnost extinct and much
sought for California Condor ( Gyno!T:yps CaHfornianus). which, from all
reports, was the only first-class specimen in existence at that time.
Being- extremely interested in the general program of his studies and
investigations, this trip and many other which followed may be said to
have constituted his university and his church, and were the source of
much scientific knowledge.
In 1896 he, together with three companions, made a trip by team
from Los Angeles to the Huachuca Mountains, on the Mexican border
of Arizona. On this expedition the party was in the field for about
five months, during which time many rare and desirable specimens of
natural history were secured, including a number of type specimens.
Beginning in the fall of 1896, he took a course in assaying and
mining at the University of Arizona, and assisted his brother-in-law,
who was then a professor of mining and metallurgy at that institution.
He was there until the spring of 1897, and the following months were
spent in the mountain ranges of Arizona following his favorite studies.
In the fall of the same year he worked in a timber camp for a time and
later secured employment in the Copper Queen Mine at Bisbee, Arizona,
where he remained until June, 1898.
After spending two or three months in the mountains, he. returned
to his home in Los Angeles for the winter, and in the sjjring of 1899
made a second trip by team across the desert to Arizona, this time ac-
companied by his brother Edward. The object of the trip was the sale
of nursery stock, and was financed by the firm of Howard & Smith.
Several months were spent in canvassing the principal towns of Arizona,
with fairly satisfactory results, .\fter covering the field and traveling
more than a thousand miles, the team and outfit were disposed of, and
for a year following Mr. Howard and his brother camped together in
various mountain ranges, having many interesting experiences, after
which his brother Edward returned to Los Angeles.
During the next two years he did a considerable amount of mining
and prospecting, besides carrying on extensive investigations and re-
search work relative to birds, plants and insect life in various sections of
Arizona.
In the summer of 1902 he returned to Los Angeles to assist the firm
of Howard & Smith in establishing their nursery in the Montebello sec-
tion, at that time a barren stretch of land which had recently been
placed on the market. He and his brother Edward broke the first ground
and carried on the construction work until late in the fall, when he was
called on to relieve his brother F. H. at an oil camp in the mountains
of Ventura County, at the head of Piru Creek, the location of which
had been made some years previous by their father. Owing to its loca-
tion, the drilling operations were greatly hampered, all supplies and
material being hauled a distance of eighty-four miles from Bakersfield.
Mr. Howard remained in charge of the camp until it was finally
abandoned in February of 1904, after he and his brother Fred had spent
two and a half years of their time taking chances on making a strike.
After leaving the camp he returned once more to Arizona, putting
in the .spring and summer in following his favorite pursuits and return-
ing in the fall with many rare and valuable specimens.
Aside from numerous short trips covering the Channel Islands, the
Mount Whitney County and other California mountain regions, since
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. 1904 Mr. Howard has been actively engaged with the firm of Howard
& Smith. He has since been appointed secretary and is at the head of
the landscape department.
He is well known in scientific circles and has contributed numerous
specimens to the principal museums and private collections throughout
the country, including the Smithsonian Institution at Washington.
He is a member of the Pasadena Horticultural Society and the
Cooper Ornithological Club of California. He is a republican and a
member of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
On September 8, 1912, Mr. Howard married Mrs. Charlotte Siebold
Sherriff.
Helen Brown Read, who for the past year or so has been a popular
member of the artistic colony of Los Angeles, is a dramatic soprano and
a musician whose achievements have been accorded enthusiastic recogni-
tion in the greatest musical centers of the old world as well as the new.
She was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, and acquired her early educa-
tion in that city. As a girl she showed a remarkable talent for the
piano and graduated in piano, musical history, composition and har-
mony at the Conservatory of Music of Illinois College. Soon afterward
she was married and made her home in Rockford, Illinois, where she
became a member of the Mendelsohn Club. It was during her residence
at Rockford that her vocal gifts were demonstrated in a manner to give
her confidence and determine her to concentrate her future studies along
that line. Her husband died in 1900, and a few months later she left
for Europe.
Her talents secured for her a fortunate reception by celebrated
masters abroad. She studied under Frau Professor Petri of Dresden,
whose husband, Henri Petri, was concert master of the Dresden Orches-
tra. Later she went to Paris, and was accepted as a pupil by the great
Jean de Reszke, whose direction she enjoyed for two years, and on whose
recommendation she received an engagement in the Chemnitz Stadt The-
ater, the director of which at that time was Herr Oscar Malata, the
eminent Bohemian conductor. Her experience in Chemnitz, the Pitts-
burg of Germany, was the first and only grand opera she had. For two
years she sang such roles as Marguerite in Faust, Mimi in La Boheme,
Marie in the Bartered Bride, Antonia in the Tales of Hoflfman, Agathe
in Der Freischutz, Elsa in Lohengrin and Micaela in Carmen. Some of
the comments made by the musical critics of Dresden and Chemnitz
should be noted: "As Antonia in Tales of HoflFman, in appearance and
vocal makeup she is well nigh ideal." "Her work musically and vocally
is all so finished and carefully perfected that one can not help rejoicing
in it." "Helen Brown Read seems to be especially gifted for the role
of Mimi. The grace of her acting and her great interpretative powers,
together with her strong and beautiful soprano voice, all work for the
success of an interpretation which holds the audience spellbound."
After leaving Chemnitz and the grand opera stage, she went to Eng-
land and toured the principal cities of Great Britain as the soprano soloist
with Anna Pavlowa and the Russian Ballet. She sang two operatic arias
on every program with full orchestra accompaniment. On this tour she
was associated with Paulo Gruppe, the Belgian cellist. She then made
her home for one year in London, giving concerts and recitals.
With the approach of the World war, Mrs. Read returned home and
gave her time to church singing, teaching and concert appearances. About
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three years later she came to Los Angeles with her mother, who was
suffering failing health, greatly aggravated by the loss of the dear father
and husband. After locating in Los Angeles, Mrs. Read became soloist
in the First Church of Christ Scientist at Loiig Beach. This was the
opening of a new chapter in her life, which brought a new trend of
thought and vision. .She was engaged in singing at Long Beach thirteen
months, and then opened her studio in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Read has sung with the Minneapolis and St. Louis Orchestras,
•during 1916 filled a six weeks' concert engagement at Atlantic City and
was re-engaged for the season of 1917. The comments on her work at
liome have been fully as enthusiastic as those given her student career
abroad. One comment from a St. Louis musical critic is : "She has a
powerful voice of uncommon musical cjuality, has complete control of
Tier vocal ecjuipment and sings with fine taste. She suggests the best
traditions of the concert and operatic stage. She was recalled four times
.after she had completed her first number."
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Miss Mabel Condon. The true record of an active busy life, cover-
ing even a few years, that has been crowned with success honorably if
hardly won, is not only of general interest, but offers great inspiration.
The steps by which Miss Mabel Condon, talented journalist, scenario
writer, and owner and manager of the Mabel Condon Film Exchange at
Los Angeles, made her way from a humble position in a newspaper ofifice
to her present place of literary prominence in both the East and West,
gives emphasis to the fact that talent, backed by courage, persistence and
initiative, does not belong to one sex alone. Miss Condon has not been
a business woman for so very many years, but her success is pronounced.
Miss Condon was born in the city of Chicago. Her parents are
Timothy J- and Rose (McDevitt) Condon. Her father was born in
Canada, her mother in DeWitt, Iowa, and both were reared on farms.
Both parents are faithful members of the Roman Catholic Church, and
Miss Condon early became a pupil in the Catholic School of the Visitation,
conducted by the Dominican nuns, and later was graduated from St.
•Gabriel's High School, an institution that has turned out individuals
that have become distinguished in many professions. It was the hope
■of her parents that she would become a teacher, but her inclination from
•childhood was toward a literary life, and her parents did not object when
'Sister Wilhelmina, who was at the head of St. Gabriel, encouraged the
■young aspirant to cultivate her talent for writing.
Miss Condon found her first opportunity as a reporter, with a salary
'of six dollars a week, on the Farmers and Drovers Journal, which is yet
•owned by Mrs. Goodall.'and issued in the stock yards district, Chicago.
The field was an unusual one for a young woman, but she worked hard
and later was made editor of the magazine section, and in this capacity
■surprised her friends and employers by the dependable articles she pre-
pared on unusual subjects. She wrote, for instance, an article on the
worth of gallstones, a subject only thoroughly understood by stockmen:
and another on the sun in relation to agriculture, which was circulated
through the farming districts. In the meanwhile she wrote articles for
the local papers published in Englewood and Woodlawn, Chicago, fol-
lowing which she was engaged as a reporter by the Hearst publications,
her attractive personality making her able to secure many details of the
daily happenings in a great city, which newspaper readers want to read
.about.
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In 1911 Miss Condon began writing for the Motography Magazine,
a Chicago motion picture publication, one of three published at that time,
and she called her page "Sans Grease, Wig and Paint" when she began
interviewing motion picture stars. Her first assignment was Jack War-
ren Kerrigan, but as she was unable to secure a personal interview, she
secured her information from his lawyer, his director and the manager
of his film company. It was Miss Condon who secured the first inter-
view ever accorded by Francis X. Bushman after he entered moving pic-
tures. Her duties then took her to New York to report a convention, and
there she had first interviews with Mary Pickford, Florence Lawrence,
William Russell and other stars. The trip was so fruitful and satisfac-
tory that the magazine had her open an office in the Longacre building,
at Forty-second and Broadway, and she had the distinction of being
the only feminine journalist then engaged on moving picture magazines.
Notwithstanding, she was the one who secured the most news, the re-
liable stories and the bulk of the advertising. In addition to this work,
Miss Condon wrote special articles for Photoplay and Picture Play
Magazines. As her work accumulated, she sent for her younger brother,
Charles R. Condon, then an employe of a Chicago bank, who became
her assistant and subsequently took over the New York office, handling
it with great success.
After three years in New York, Miss Condon purchased a three-
month round trip ticket to California and came West, visiting her Chicago
home on the way, but reaching California in June, 1914. in time to write
up the- San Francisco Exposition. She came then to Los Angeles, and ,
the chaini of this city and its people determined her to make her perma-
nent home here. At this time she was correspondent for the Dramatic
Mirror, and she sent from here many stories and a few plays.
At the request of William Russell and Nell Shipman, she experi-
mented in the personal line in their interests and remembers with a great
deal of gratitude the confidence they thus invested in her. Succeeding in
this work, she immediately saw the opportunity for business in the
agency line, which resulted in her renting a bungalow next her own, the
hiring of three typists and installation of a dictaphone and the establish-
ing of a regular motion picture agency. In a short time, however, her
work had grown to such volume that she found it necessary to enlarge
her quarters, and then came to her present desirable location on Holly-
wood boulevard, where she has been since May, 1917. The owners of
the building rearranged the whole plan of the structure to please her and
now she is beautifully situated, with commodious offices decorated accord-
ing to her own taste.
Some eighteen months ago Miss Condon went to New York and re-
mained five months, looking after her interests, which include the sale
of books and plays. For like reasons she has spent several months there
in the current year. Otherwise she has remained at work in Los Angeles.
She has had her mother with her for several years, and in July, 1919,
was joined by her brother, Charles R. Condon, immediately upon his dis-
charge from the army after service with the Medical Corps. Mr. Con-
don returned to work in the film industry by way of taking over the
publicity management of the Anita Stewart Company. His ability as a
writer, his intimate knowledge of the nation picture business and the
high reputation which he enjoys therein point to a future of particular
promise for him.
Among her patrons Miss Condon can list the most prominent people
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in the moving picture industry. Slie has made a wonderful success, yet
is a young woman of quiet tastes and is particularly unostentatious in
manner. She is a member of many representative literary organizations,
including the New York Women's Press Club, the Illinois Women's
Press Club and the California Penman Association.
Fred Hartsook is owner of the largest photographic business in
the world, comprising a system of twenty studios in all the prinicipal
cities of California. Besides the executive ability which has enabled
Mr. Hartsook to develop and build up such a business, he is personally a
photographer of the highest qualifications and is one of a family of
photographers, the first Hartsooks having taken up the profession when
it was in the infancy of development with the old daguerreotype and the
first wet plate processes.
Mr. Hartsook's grandfather was the first photographer to open a
studio in the state of Virginia. The father of Fred Hartsook was in
the photographic business for forty-four years, in two of the principal
cities of the West. There are two uncles who have been more than
successful in the same profession.
Fred Hartsook was born at Marion, Indiana, October 26, 1876, son
of John and Abbie (Gorham) Hartsook. He acquired a grammar and
high school education at Marion, graduating at the age of sixteen. The
following two years he was with his uncle, Simon Barley, a civil engineer
in Grant County, Indiana, but spent the major part of his time in his
father's studio. Mr. Hartsook came to California in 1898, well qualified
by experience and training and natural inclination for his chosen pro-
fession, and opened a studio at Santa Ana, followed later by one at
Santa Barbara. He soon discontinued these and opened a studio on
Mercantile Place and South Broadway, in Los Angeles, and in this new
location worked steadily and quietly for seven years, and giving the
studio a well justified fame throughout Southern California. Since then
he has been expanding the business by opening studios in San Francisco,
Oakland and other principal cities.
During the past ten years Mr. Hartsook has photographed more
notable people than any other photographer in the world. Four pres-
idents and vice presidents of the United States have made sittings, in-
cluding Woodrow Wilson. While President Wilson was in Los Angeles,
in September, 1919, Mr. Hartsook took fourteen poses, from which Mrs.
Wilson selected nine as good. Mr. Hartsook had forty minutes of the
President's time, and it was the first formal sitting since Mr. Wilson
had become president.
If his name were not so closely linked with his professional busi-
ness, Mr. Hartsook might claim equal distinction as a rancher and fancier
of pure-blooded live stock. In any case his enterprises in that direction
are noteworthy. When the Los Angeles aqueduct was built, Mr. Hart-
sook secured a section of land lying near the mouth of Red Rock Canyon.
east of the station of Cantil. It is in the lowest part of Kern County
with respect to the topographic elevation for hundreds of miles west,
east and north, while it is a thousand feet lower than the country south
for about six miles. Mr. Hartsook has increased his holdings in this
small valley until they now aggregate over three thousand acres. At a
depth of 185 feet he developed a flow of artesian water. The so'l con-
tains about ten per cent gypsum, and has almost inexhaustible richness
and a fertility capable of wonderful production. This ranch is improved
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with a private electric light system, swimming pools, and ranch buildings
such as are seldom found on even the more modern ranches. As a youth
back in Indiana, Mr. Hartsook gained a practical knowledge of civil
engineering from his uncle. He surveyed the Kern County ranch, and
never employs an engineer to run his lines and set his grade stakes.
The chief playground for Mr. Hartsook is a country home and
ranch much nearer his home in Los Angeles. This is a place of forty-
one acres at Lankershim, bounded by Vineland avenue, the Pacific Elec-
tric Railway and San Fernando boulevard. The casual Los Angeles
visitor would hardly expect to find such a completely developed stock
ranch within twelve miles of the Court House and surrounded by paved
boulevards. Here Mr. Hartsook has pursued his fancy in handling pure
bred registered stock and has over two hundred head. These include
a herd of sixty pure bred Holsteins, with Miss Gelisha Walker, a state
record cow of the junior three-year-olds, and thirty-two others with of-
ficial records of more than twenty pounds of butter in seven days. An-
other feature is the selected herd of pure bred registered Toggenburg
milch goats from imported stock. Among them are two grand cham-
pion does of 1918, exhibited at the Riverside and Los Angeles Liberty
Fairs. Mr. Hartsook also has a herd of pure bred big type Poland China
hogs, exhibited at the State Fair of 1919, and also at the Fresno County
Fair, Riverside County Fair, and Liberty Fair at Los Angeles. They
were awarded sixty per cent of all the purses and prizes given by these
different fair associations. There is no other ranch, however large, in
the state of California with a greater variety of pure bred stock. While
Mr. Hartsook has experimented with tractors, he depends for his power
upon the reliable mule, and has over seventy-four head of mules. His
ranch superintendent, Mr. Bain, claims that Mr. Hartsook is a cham-
pion "mule skinner" and exhibits remarkable skill in getting twenty head
or more mules in hariiess and hooked up to the big Smiser land levelcr.
In fact, it is not uncommon for Mr. Hartsook to pose some of the world's
noted people one day and be driving a big mule team on his ranch the
next. A nearby rancher at Burbank is big Jim Jeffries, the ex-champion,
who says that Mr. Hartsook's judgment in confirmation of a well-bred
cow is sufficient for any one to accept, and Mr. Hartsook's showing be-
fore the state and county live stock judges and the blue ribbons he ex-
hibits goes to carry out the assertion.
He is affiliated with the Masonic and Elk Lodges.
Willis George Emerson. During the last thirty years of his active
life, Willis George Emerson had the satisfaction of seeing a dozen or
more books published and winning favor among thousands of American
readers. Besides his work as a leading American fiction writer, he gave
the singular gift of his genius to business and publicity work, and as a
resident of Southern California bore a conspicuous part in the develop-
ment of some of the leading towns of the famous Imperial Valley.
He was born near Blakesburg, Iowa, March 28, 1856, son of Rev.
Stephen L. and Mary L. (Peck) Emerson He attended Knox College,
at Galesburg, Illinois, in 1876-77, and was admitted to the bar in 1886.
He received the degree LL. D. from Northern Ohio University in 1889.
During 1889-90 he lived in Kansas, and from 1890 to 1892 made his
headquarters at Ogden, Utah. As a town builder, his first important
achievement was in developing the townsite of Idaho Falls, Idaho. From
1896 to 1904 he was engaged in laying out and developing the town of
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Grand Encampment, Wyoming. He came to California in 1904 and em-
ployed his resources as a real estate man and publicist in developing some
desert tracts in the Imperial Valley, two of the best known towns of
that valley, Brawley and Calexico, owing their early impulse largely to
his enterprise. For a number of years he was president of the Emerson
Realty Company of Los Angeles, his chief business associate being his
son, Wilbur O. Emerson. His other son, Fred L. Emerson, is a ranch
owner in Wyoming.
During his busy life Mr. Emerson received many public honors. He
was an inffuential republican and served as a presidential elector in 1888,
was appointed a commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1900, and to
the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and in 1900 was vice chairman of
the Speakers' Bureau of the "Republican National Committee. His speech
replying to "Coin" Harvey's financial school was issued as a republican
campaign document in 1896, and in 1900 over half a million copies of his
speech on sound money were circulated throughout the country.
Considering his business achievements, it seems remarkable that he
found time to indulge in literary pursuits. Undoubtedly he derived his
chief satisfaction from literature. He began his career as an author
over thirty years ago, his first book being "Winning Winds.'' published in
1885. The list of his important books is as follows: "Fall of Jason,"
1889; "My Partner and I," 1896; "Buell Hampton," 1902; "The Build-
ers," 1906; "The Smoky God," 1908; "The Flock Master," the title of
which was subsequently changed to "The Treasure of Hidden Valley,"
published in 1911 ; "A Vendetta of the Hills," a truly typical California
story, published in 1916; "The Man Who Discovered Himself," 1917,
and many sketches and stories of travel. He was author of "American
Valor," a speech delivered at Gettysburg in 1911. At his death he left
the manuscript of a four-act play.
Mr. Emerson, who died in 1919 at his home, at 2964 West Seventh
street, in Los Angeles, was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, was a life member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, was a life
member of Wichita Consistory No. 2 of the Scottish Rite Masons, a life
member of Ellsworth Lodge of Masons in Kansas, a member of En-
campment Masonic Lodge in Wyoming, of Korein Temple of the Shrine
at Rawlins, Wyoming, and Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar, at
Chicago.
June 4, 1907, Mr. Emerson married Miss Bonnie O'Neal, who had
come to California with her mother in 1906.
Joseph W. J.vucii, M. .D. For thirty years Dr. Jauch has been an
able and esteemed member of the medical fraternity of Lo? Angeles,
regarded not only for his professional services, but for his interesting
personality and many scholarly attainments.
Dr. Jauch was born at Altdorf, in Canton Uri, Switzerland, January
31, 1863, a son of Joseph and Josephine Jauch. His mother was a native
of Milan, Italy. His father, also born at Altdorf, was educated in medi-
cine in Switzerland and Germany and practiced in Canton Uri until his
death in 1868. Thirteen of his children are still living.
Dr. Joseph W. Jauch attended public schools and as a youth studied
philosophy and theology in the Einsiedeln Monastery conducted by the
Benedictine Order in Switzerland. He studied medicine in the U/iiver-
city of Zurich, University of Bern and University of Basel, Switzerland,
graduating in 1887, and afterwards attended the Universities of Munich
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and Heidelberg in Germany, and Wurzbr.rg in x\ustria. He received his
doctor's degree in 1889 and in the same year came to America and Degan
building up a practice and professional reputation at Los Angeles.
Dr. Jauch is a republican. He married, at Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary
Hotchkiss, August 6, 1906.
George H. Turner, who came to Los Angeles in 1904, has, with
the exception of the first two years, been engaged in the business of
selling or handling plumbing goods and supplies, and a few years ago
he organized the G. H. Turner Company, the leading jobbing and whole-
sale concern of its kind in Southern California.
Mr. Turner was born in Steubenville, Ohio, February 24, 1874, son
of Robert H. and Mary J. (Breen) Turner. He had a common and high
school education and at the age of twenty-one went to work as clerk in
the office of a department superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Corpora-
tion at Pittsburgh. He was advanced from time to time, eventually be-
coming an assistant superintendent.
He resigned in 1904 to come to Los Angeles, and the first twO'
years here was with the Oil Well Supply Company. Since then he has
handled plumbing supplies, and as a matter of experience there is none
of his competitors who can excel him in thorough knowledge of every-
thing connected with this industry. For two years he was a salesman for
A. H. Busch & Company, then for two years a salesman with George
H. Tay Company, sold goods for J. D. Hooker Company one year, and
another year was with the Crane Company. In June, 1914, he organized
the G. H. Turner Company and became its president and general manager
and owner of the controlling interest. M. J. Turner is vice president and
J. E. Swindell is secretary and treasurer of the company.
The first business location of this company was at 1052 North Ala-
meda street. The warehouse and office was destroyed by fire in 1915 and
the company then moved to Seventh street and Alameda. Rapid growth
and development caused the next removal to larger quarters at 600-614
San Pedro street, where the wholesale department is now located. Since
1915 the company has also maintained a large display store at 122-126
East Ninth street, and also a display in the Building Material Association
rooms in the Metropolitan Building. The Turner Company specializes in
high-grade plumbing fixtures, and handles only the very best material
the market offers, nothing but nationally advertised goods of the greatest
manufacturers in America. The company does a great deal of local
publicity work in advertising their goods, and all the resources of Mr.
Turner and his associates stand behind the wares offered to the trade.
The first year of the company's existence only eight people were em-
ployed, while today the organization has a personnel of twenty-five.
Besides other space, they own a warehouse of seventy thousand square
feet. At the East Ninth street store an important feature of their display
are ten completely equipped bathrooms and kitchens.
Mr. Turner is a member of the Masonic Order, the Optimist Club,
the Ad Club, the Jonathan Club, Automobile Club of Southern California,
Culver City Country Club, Merchants" and Manufacturers' Association
and Chamber of Commerce. He is a republican and patriotic American.
At Los Angeles, July 23, 1908, he married Miss Molly Miller of Canton,
Ohio.
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John D. Coplen. While a resident of Los Angeles the fame of
his achievements is in the great mining districts of the Southwest, espe-
cially Arizona, where John D. Coplen, by his perseverance, his inventive
genius and his rare insight and judgment, has literally created millijons
of wealth.
John D. Coplen was born in Fulton County, Indiana, March 7, 1844,
son of William and Ruth (Ballou) Coplen. When he was twelve years
of age his parents moved to Iowa, later to Kansas and Missouri and
afterward to Denver, Colorado. He finished his public schooling at
Denver. His experience in mining covers sixty years. He was sixteen
years of age when he went to work in the mines along the South Platte
River in Colorado.
He is also a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted in 1864 in
Company G of the Third Colorado Cavalry, after several unsuccessful
attempts at enlistment because of his youth. When he was mustered out
in 1865 he had the rank of corporal. After the war he located in Bent
County, Colorado, where he served as justice of the peace. He enjoyed
some considerable success mining in the San Juan country. Later he
located and operated for a time the Silver Link mine, in Ouray County,
Colorado. In 1882 he bought the Golden Wonder mine and the Golden
Mammoth mine, at Lake City, in Hinsdale County, Colorado.
His name is prominently associated with the citizens who about
1870 organized the town of Las Animas, and succeeded in making it an
important station on the Santa Fe Railway. After selling out the last
mentioned mines, Mr. Coplen continued to follow mining engineering
and was employed by Eastern capitalists as an expert on the exammation
of mines in the United States, Canada and Mexico. While thus engaged
he bought a gold mine and built a mill at Water Canyon, thirty miles
from Socorro, New Mexico, but soon afterward sold this property. His
next enterprise was a mining property in Pinal County, Arizona, where
he participated in the organization of the Arizona Copper Hill Mining
Company and served as its manager until he sold his interests in 1898.
Mr. Coplen since 1883 has owned Noah's Ark mine, in San Juan
County, Colorado, located ten miles from Silverton, near Eureka, the
mine being at an altitude of twelve thousand feet. From 1875 until 1905
Dr. John Russell was associated in many mining ventures with Mr. Cop-
len, the partnership being known as Coplen & Russell. Both of them
operated the Noah's Ark mine until 1884, when it was closed on account
of the demonetization of silver. Owing to the recent phenomenal ad-
vance in the price of silver, Mr. Coplen i? now making plans to reopen
this mine.
However, his most conspicuous achievement in the mining industry
was in Arizona. In 1898 he organized the Pacific Mining and Metals
Company in Arizona, whose property adjoined the old Copper Hill mines.
He had the controlling interest in this company, which was later
reorganized as the Inspiration Mining Company. In April, 1903, Mr. J.
D. Coplen, with his son, J. B. Coplen, purchased a group of properties
situated in the Globe mining district, Gila County, Arizona, which when
taken over by the Inspiration Mining Company became a unit and was
known as the Inspiration Group. From 1903 to 1908 this property was
controlled and developed under part ownershig^ and full management of
T. D. Coplen.
During this time he was ridiculed by many for his poor judgment
in buying a mine producing such a low grade of ore as the Inspiration.
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But in mining Mr. Coplen has that high degree of honor which another
field has been aptly described as making two blades of grass grow where
one grew before. He had the faith and the perseverance to realize the
possibilities of low grade ores, and therefore stands as a pioneer in that
field. In this particular case he built a mill on the property and when
he sold the mine to the Inspiration Copper Company in 1908, it brought
three millions of dollars. He also took up =ome properties adjoining
the Inspiration on the west, known as the Barney and Porpliyry Copper
Companies, of which he was the president and which have recently been
consolidated into what is now known as the Porphyry Consolidated
Copper Company, and of which he is still president.
As "father" of the Inspiration Mining Company, Mr. Coplen's work
has been truly an inspiration. The Inspiration properties were examined
and turned down by many of the leading expert mining engineers of the
country, and the enormous production of wealth from that source is
largely due to Mr. Coplen's skill and faith. He has spent practically a
lifetime in building inachinery and devices for the treatment of all kinds
of low grade ores, and has a process for leaching this class of ore.
For two and a half years Mr. Coplen served as mayor of the city
of Globe, Arizona. Inhabitants of that community admit that Mr. Cop-
len's operations had much to do with the wonderful outcome of that
section.
In Los Angeles, December 15, 1918, Mr. Coplen married Miss
Bertha A. Davis, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Coplen is an accom-
plished musician, having studied vocal music under prominent instruc-
ors in Boston, New York and London, England, and previous to her
marriage spent many years in public work.
Richard H. L.-vcv. The Lacy Manufacturing Company, of which
Richard H. Lacy is secretary and treasurer, is one of the oldest firms in
Southern California engaged in the wholesale hardware business and
as manufacturers of steel and iron work. During the past twenty years
the plant has been developed into one of the leading institutions of Los
Angeles.
The Lacys are a pioneer California family. The parents of Richard
H. Lacy, who was born at Bolinas, in Marin County, August 15, 1866,
were William and Isabelle (Riggs) Lacy, who five years later moved
to San Diego, and when Richard H. was eleven years of age moved to
Los Angeles. The son acquired his education in the public schools of
San Diego and Los Angeles, graduating from the high school in the latter
city at the age of nineteen. About that time he became associated with
his brother William in their father's wholesale hardware business. Even
at that time the firm carried on an extensive manufacture of steel pipe.
When the father soon afterward sold the business, the brother established
the Lacy, Ward & Company, a partner being Mr. L. A. Ward. The
Ward interests were subsequently acquired and the business incorporated
as the Lacy Manufacturing Company, of which Richard Lacy has been
secretary and treasurer from the beginning.
The industry was started in a one-story building 50x100 feet at
North Broadway and Alpine streets. At that time some thirty to torty
people were employed. During the early nineties the plant was moved
to the Santa Fe Railway tracks, where buildings had been erected cover-
ing an acre and a half of ground and supplied with every facility and
equipment for their special lines. At that time frojn sixty to one hundred
people were working in the business. In 1899 the company established
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its plant at the present location, bounded by North Main, Date, Alhambra
and Railroad streets, and also occupying part of an adjoining lot on
Main street. The business is now one requiring the services of over
three hundred persons. While the original line of manufacture is con-
tinued, other departments have been added, including the making of
heavy plate where sheet metal is required for the boilers, stills for refining
of petroleum, storage tanks, water work appliances and the other general
equipment which this company supplies.
Mr. Lacy is also a director of the Security Trust and Savings Bank,
the United States National Bank and was formerly a director in the
Puente Oil Company. He owns a great deal of valuable real estate in
Los Angeles. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, on its
Harbor Committee, a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Midwick Country Club,
the California Club and the Elks, and is a republican in politics.
Mr. Lacy has been a trustee of the town of San Marino since it
was organized m 1913. In that town he owns a beautiful mansion near
those of H. E. Huntington and George S. Patton. February 27, 1893, at
Los Angeles, Mr. Lacy married Maud Sullivan. They have six children:
Richard, a mechanical engineer; Marjorie; Helen, a student in the Uni-
versity of California; Florence, Eleanor and Constance, all attending
the Ramona Convent.
Frank Chance. What has been asserted to be true of the legal
profession is also true of great athletes, their names and deeds are fre-
quently written in the sand. There are exceptions to the rule in the
great American sport of baseball, and one of them is Frank Chance,
"peerless leader," and undoubtedly one of the ablest players and man-
agers the national pastime has ever produced. While unlike many great
men in sport who after retiring have come to California, Frank Chance
is a Californian by birth, and has always regarded the state as his home,
though for nearly twenty years his profession kept him in the East.
He was born in Fresno County, September 9, 1877. His father,
William H. Chance, a native of Missouri, was a California forty-niner.
In that year he crossed the plains by wagon, and became a farmer in
Modesta County. Later he moved to Fresno, where he was president
of the First National Bank when he died in 1892. At Fresno he married
Mary Russell. They had seven children: Arthur, a grocery merchant
at San Francisco; Alonzo, a retired land owner at Fresno; Frank;
Stella, wife of Frank Homan of Fresno; Claude; Bert, connected with
the H. Jevne & Company of Los Angeles, and Harvey, who died in
infancy.
Frank Chance graduated from the Fresno High School in 1890.
This was followed by three years in Washington College, at Irving,
California. While in college he earned his first reputation, a local one,
as a baseball player. He first became a professional in 1896, when he
went to Sullivan, Illinois, to play on the independent team. He had to
overcome some strong objections on the part of his mother, and to
satisfy her he returned to California in 1897 and began studying dentistry
in the office of Dr. Doyle. While studying he played baseball in the
Examiner tournament. He could see nothing in dentistry, and in time
he determined to rely upon his special genius as a ball player as a means
of rendering what service he could to the world of sport. He joined the
Fresno baseball club, and while playing with that club was recruited in
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1898 by the old National League and given his first tryout by the Cubs
of Chicago. In 1905 he was made captain, in 1906 was made captain
and manager, and also bought a one-tenth interest in the club. He re-
mained with the Cubs team until 1913, in which time he won four pen-
nants and two world's championships, and was then bought by the New
York Yankees and was manager of that team in 1913-14. He retired
in 1915.
Since then ]\Ir. Chance has enjoyed a well ordered and happy work-
ing life near Glendora, California. In 1908 he had bought a tract of
thirty-two acres there, and all of it is developed as an orange grove.-
Recently he completed a beautiful twenty-five-thousand-dollar residence
on his ranch. Even in his retirement, baseball has claimed something
of his time and interest. In 1916 John Powers, president of the Angel
City Baseball Association, persuaded Frank Chance to buy a third inter-
est in the Los Angeles club, and Mr. Chance has since been vice president
and director. He is also vice president of the Glendora Heights Orange-
Lemon Company and owns the Frank Chance Building at Glendora.
Mr. Chance is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and is an
Elk. At Chicago, October 3, 1903, he married Edith Pancake.
Marsh.vll V.\lentine H.vrtr.vnft. Reference to some facts per-
haps not generally known will serve to establish Mr. Hartranft's dis-
tinctive relationship with Southern California affairs.
About thirty years ago, while engaged in the fruit business at Phila-
delphia, he imported from California the first oranges grown on the
Pacific Coast and handled on the Atlantic seaboard. Becoming inter-
ested in California, he established his home in Los Angeles in 1894, and
through the Los Angeles Daily Fruit World, which he established in
1895, "and the New York Daily Fruit World, established in 1898, both
of which publications he still operates, has performed an invaluable
service in advertising the distinctive products of California and advanc-
ing the interests of the producers.
Probably of even greater importance was the organizing by Mr.
Hartranft of the California Home Extension Association, which for
years has developed and operated a plan of "group colonization," and
under its auspices have been undertaken and carried out some of the
most successful colonization movements m California. This association
promoted the towns and colonies of Wasco in Kern County, Alpaugh in
Kern County, Greenfield in Monterey County, and several other minor
settlements, all of which were established during the period from 1904
to 1907. In connection with his broader work as a colonizer, Mr. Hart-
ranft established a homeseekers' Journal, called The Western Empire,
in 1900, and continued its publication for ten years.
Just before the close of the great war he developed the group
colonization plan to extend population to many unoccupied subdivisions
and city lots about Los Angeles. He has formed and established six
or seven of the important water companies of the state in connection with
colonization work. Mr. Hartranft, besides being an enterprising business
man. is a student of many of the technical factors pertaining to his work,
especially forestry and conservation subjects. He is president of the
Lukens Memorial Forestry Society, which was recently formed.
Mr. Hartranft was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, February
14, 1872. His father was Rev. Charles R. Hartranft, a Methodist minis-
ter of the New Jersey Conference. Mr. Hartranft was well educated
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and for a time was a theological student in the Pennington Seminary at
Pennington, New Jersey. He married Louise Owens, daughter of David
Jennings Owens.
Edward Double, who, up to the time of his death was presi-
dent of the Union Tool Company, — one of the greatest industrial
organizations of Southern California, — was a man of long and wide ex-
perience in the oil industry, and a specialist in the mechanical and technical
side of that work. He came to California in the infancy of petroleum
workings on the coast and his own inventive genius and enterprise secured
to him immediate recognition and rapid advancement, and contributed
more than any other one factor to the quick yet substantial growth of the
great organization of which he was the head, which makes and deals in
all kinds of oil well equipment and supplies, internal combustion engines,
mining machinery and steel and iron castings.
Mr. Double was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania, — one of the pioneer
American centers of the oil industry, — on October 15, 1874, a son of
Hamilton and Mary (Smith) Double. He grew to manhood in Pennsyl-
vania, attended public school, and his early disposition and inclination to-
ward mechanical work naturally threw him into the throbbing industries
of Western Pennsylvania, where he came to know all phases of the oil
business. He was especially interested in the manufacture of tools and
appliances for the production of oil. In the course of time, and while
he was yet a young man, he came to be recognized as one of the most
skilled tool and machinery men in the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
About the time California came into prominence as a petroleum pro-
ducing state, Mr. Double sought the far western field, in July, 1897, first
locating in Santa Paula, Ventura County. He became intimately ac-
quainted with the leading oil producers of that vicinity, and was soon
interested in several enterprises. He established a plant for the manu-
facture of oil tools and machinery, which, in 1901, was removed to Los
Angeles and the business and plant enlarged, making it the leading estab-
lishment of its kind on the Coast.
His great success was largely a matter of foresight, re-enforced by
his own ability to manufacture and supply the rapidly increasing needs of
the California oil district.
He was among the very first in the Southwest to adopt the use of
tungsten or high speed steel, because, though the initial ouday for it was
probably six times as great as carbon steel would have been, it gave him
speed and efficiency and met the demands of his progressive methods.
At Los Angeles he built up an industry larger than any other in the
manufacture of oil well tools and supplies for the Southwest. He also
became associated with the Union Tool Company of Los Angeles, which
was established in May, 1908, by the consolidation of the American Engi-
neering and Foundr\' Company and the Union Oil Tool Company, each
of which had been in existence for a period of years. Their combined
production constituted the bulk of the important manufacturing done in
the interest of the oil industry of the Coast. The new company, which
was named LTnion Tool Company, was capitalized at one million two
hundred thousand dollars, and under the handling of Mr. Double as presi-
dent and general manager its growth and prosperity exceeded all predic- -
tions. The company soon outgrew its facilities and its ground space in
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Los Angeles, and several years ago removed to the model industrial
suburb of Los Angeles, Torrance, where, on twenty-five acres of ground,
the company erected one of the largest and most complete manufacturing
plants in the country. The buildings are all of concrete and steel con-
struction, and have many times been called models of modern factory
arrangement, appliances and sanitary equipment. Mr. Double himself
furnished many of the basic ideas and designs for these buildings, and
personally witnessed and directed every phase of their construction and
equipment. The capital of the company was later increased to $2,500,000,
and more recently was still further increased to $7,500,000. The plant
alone represents an investment of one and one-half millions of dollars.
The company maintains branches in all the oil fields of California, and it
also does very substantial business in the East, having one large plant
near Chicago and another at Carnegie, near Pittsburgh, and exporting
large quantities of its products to European and Oriental countries.
Mr. Double was a most successful organizer and had the rare genius
of surrounding himself with a corps of able assistants, whose talents he
co-ordinated into a vital working unit.
As a prominent business man Mr. Double met faithfully and grandly
the numerous calls made upon his service and time for the good of Los
Angeles as a community. He was a member of the representative busi-
ness and civic organizations, the Los Angeles Chamber of Coirunerce,
Union League Club, Jonathan Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club,
Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Order of Elks.
On January 4, 1899, at Santa Paula, California, Mr. Double married
Miss Alice Harbard, who sur\'ives him. This union was blessed with
one daughter, Helen Double, who is a student at the University of
Wisconsin.
At the very height of his advancing career, while constructing and
completing another great plant at Carnegie, near Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, for manufacturing oil well tools and equipment for the export
trade, he was suddenly claimed by death on May 27, 1920.
En.\s How.\RD Parsons, who died at his home in Pasadena, Jan-
uary 24, 1920, was one of America's distinguished soldiers with a rec-
ord of remarkable efficiency and gallantry in the Civil war, later in the
regular army, and also in the period of the war with Spain and the
Philippine insurrection and the Chinese Boxer rebellion. For several
years he served as quartermaster of the Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle,
California.
Captain Parsons, who was born at Worthington, Massachusetts,
December 9, 1841, in his long life proved true to the high and hon-
orable traditions of his family ancestry. The Parsons family came
from London in 1630 and settled at Springfield, Massachusetts. Later
they received a grant of land from the king, a portion of which is now
Northampton, and a few years later Cornett Joseph Parsons, together
with William Pinchon and others, bought land from the Indians and
founded Northampton, Massachusetts. Cornett Joseph Parsons was
the leading man in the colony and upon him devolved all the negotia-
tions with the Indians. He also drafted rules by which the Indians
w^ere allowed to communicate with the colonists. One of these rules
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was that the visitor should refrain from Uquor on the Sabbath day. The
homestead of Isaac Parsons, the fourth, was standing until April, 1918,
and after it had accumulated associations and history for two hundred
and fifty years was torn down against the strenuous protests of several
patriotic organizations, to make way for a city street. Cornett Joseph
Parsons was not only a leader in that colony but also a representative
at the state councils and a prominent churchman. The Parsons were
intermarried with many other prominent Bay state families. Josiah
Parsons, an uncle of the late Captain Parsons, married Mary Alden,
a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden. Their second daughter com-
pleted her education at Mount Holyoke, and at the commencement gave
an address advocating a gymnasium for the institution. This address had
a direct appeal, not usually found in college commencement essays
or orations, and the effect was such that immediately following Gover-
nor Andrews, the noted Civil war governor of Massachusetts, who
was in the audience, arose and started a subscription list and the money
was raised the same night. This marked a notable advance in the
equipment of women's colleges in America. Up to that time physical
training of womanhood with the aid of a gymnasium was unheard of.
After her graduation. Miss Parsons established Painesville Seminary
carrying out the ideas established at Mt. Holyoke by Mary Lyons, the
founder. Later Miss Parsons became a missionary, was sent to Con-
stantinople, and on her return became editor of the magazine "Wom-
an's Work for Women," a post in which she remained twenty-five years.
Two years before her resignation she made a trip around the world,
visiting all the Presbyterian missions of the Orient. She and the late
Captain Parsons were about the same age and in their relations were
more like brother and sister than first cousins.
Elias Howard Parsons was a son of Maurice and Amanda (Clark)
Parsons. His father was a Massachusetts fanner. His mother descend-
ed from a line of prominent Massachusetts families. Captain Parsons
was in the sixth generation of the Parsons family in America. He was
one of nine sons, most of whom took up work and careers that made
them pioneers. Three removed to New York state, one to Vermont
and later to Illinois, two went to Iowa and all were school teachers. A
younger sister was a talented teacher, and one of her scholars was Rus-
sell Conwell. This boy was a son of poor parents and was what would
now be called a "backward" pupil, but due to the patience and encourage-
ment of Miss Parsons he got to a point where he could memorize, later
studied for the law, made a distinguished record as a Union soldier,
afterward was a brilliant newspaper man, and for many }-ears has been
a leading author, educator and minister, being founder and president of
the Temple University at Philadelphia. Dr. Conwell in making plea
for the backward child has many times referred to his own experience
and acknowledged a deep debt of gratitude to Nancy Parsons. The
Parsons family contains many brilliant names in the history of American
law, ministry and other professions. Many years ago Theophilus Par-
sons wrote "Parsons on Contracts," a work that has been revised and
is still the standard on that subject.
Captain Elias H. Parsons attended school at Northampton, also
Caznovia College in New York, and left college to go to Ohio and teach
school. He was in that state when the war started and enlisted as a pri-
vate in the 46th Ohio Infantry at the age of twenty years. When he
first offered his services, and in July, 1861, he was rejected because
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the quota was full. Disappointed but not discouraged he joined a
company of men who hired a hall, bought their uniforms, secured the
services of a drill master, and at their own expense equipped and trained
themselves and ofifered their services to guard the Marietta Railroad.
Captain Parsons entered the regular service in September, 1861, and
was on duty practically without interruption until the close of the war.
His first duty was as quartemiaster-sergeant under Captain Emmanuel
Giesy, who later became his father-in-law. In spite of his youth he was
rapidly promoted, rose to the rank of Captain and assistant quarter-
master of the 15th Army Corps, serving General Logan's staff. His
duties as quartermaster had excused him from battle line, but he was
a great favorite of his general, Charles C. Walcott, and upon his re-
quest acted as aide to General Walcott and always accompanied him to
the front. Thus he was on the firing line in thirty-six battles, including
Vicksburg, Corinth, Shiloh, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta
Campaign, the March to the Sea, the Siege of Savannah. He was many
times mentioned for gallantry under fire and efficiency in handling his
work. He was never wounded, never in the hospital, though he con-
tracted camp diarrhea and that disease was the ultimate cause of his
death. The army surgeon sent him home on a furlough for twenty
days, but at the close he returned and rejoined his command in time
to march to the sea with Sherman. At the age of twenty-two, after the
battle of Griswold's Hill, near Atlanta, when the enemy had withdrawn
and the troops had marched back to camp, he was directed to take
charge of the ground on which there were not less than twenty-five
hundred men lying either dead or wounded. He directed the placing
of the wounded in ambulances and they were carried to Savannah with-
out the loss of a single life. Captain Parsons was not only a man of
undaunted physical courage, but had the mental makeup of a great or-
ganizer and soldier. Later in the war he was ordered to Beaufort to
secure transports, clothing and stores for the army, and had to antici-
pate the point at which these supplies could be brought to the rapidly
moving forces of Sherman. This point proved to be Morehead City,
North Carolina, and he had the stores on hand when the anxiy arrived.
Later, after General Grant had arranged the terms of capitulation for
General Lee, Captain Parsons was sent to Alexandria, Va., and Wash-
ington, D. C, to secure supplies needed to refit Sherman's army and
forage for eight thousand animals.
After this exacting career as a soldier he was mustered out July
25, 1865. General Logan offered him an appointment in the regular
army, but he declined, in order to carry out a previous engagement for
marriage and in order to settle down in life. After his marriage he lived
on a farm near Lancaster, Ohio, for a time. Captain Parsons married
Mary Augusta Giesy, daughter of Emmanuel and Harriet (Root) Giesy.
Her mother was a descendant of the Bushnell family, prominent in
American affairs as scholars, missionaries and educators, one Horace
Bushnell having been president of Yale University, and another, Horace
Bushnell, the blind fame missionary of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In January, 1867, Captain Parsons accepted an appointment from
General Grant as first lieutenant in the 12th United States Infantry
for duty during the reconstruction regime. This appointment was ten-
dered to him solely upon the merits of his military record for efficiency
and gallantry as shown by the official records on file in the War De-
partment. He reported for garrison duty at Washington, later was sent
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to Darlington and Charleston, South Carolina, was also on registration
and election duty in Virginia, and for a time was recruiting officer at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
In 1870 Captain Parsons, with many others, availed himself of the
privilege offered by the War Department to go on "waiting orders" in
the regular army, and in July of the following year went west to Utah.
He was attracted to Utah by the opportunities for mining, and remained
in that territory during a strenuous and critical time. In fact life was
held very cheap at that time, and many men were marked for assassina-
tion and quietly put out of the way by the Danite Band. Captain Parsons
was not a man to be daunted by fear or threat, and his courageous bear-
ing no doubt had much to do with insuring his safety. However, as a
matter of protection he carried a cane, a gift from a sea captain, the
handle of which concealed a long, slender dagger. At one time he was
postmaster, and President Harrison appointed him United States Mar-
shal for the territory of Utah. Acting in this capacity he had a promin-
ent part in the round up of polygamists. For many years Captain Par-
sons did an extensive ranching and stock raising business, owning a
large ranch in Nevada, where he raised cattle, horses and sheep, buying
and shipping to eastern markets.
At the beginning of the Spanish-American war he was appointed
by President McKinley as captain and quartermaster with headquarters
in Virginia. He remained on duty throughout the Spanish-American
war, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China.
Captain Parsons came to Sawtelle, California, acting as quarter-
master-in charge of the Soldiers' Home for two and a half years. Later
he started an orange grove at Upland, and later still, exercising his
soldier's rights, he homesteaded a hundred and sixty acres north of
Rialto. Thus even in his advanced years he was still doing a pioneer
work. In 1910 he performed the duties of taking the irrigation, edu-
cational, and manufacturing census of Southern California. Captain
Parsons built his home at Pasadena in 1913, and from that time until
his death was practically an invalid, suffering from his old trouble,
camp diarrhea. He was a republican in politics, was affiliated with the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, the Union Veterans'
Union and the Ex-Volunteer C^fiicers' Association. His funeral serv-
ice was preached in the First Presbyterian church of Pasadena. The
regular church service was followed by the G. A. R. ritual conducted
by local members of the Loyal Legion, the John F. Godfrey Post of
the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ladies of the G. A. R. and Wom-
an's Relief Corps. Captain Parson's ashes are interred at the National
Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia.
Captain Parsons is survived by his wife, Mary A. Parsons, and
by four daughters and one son. The oldest, Marj^ Clark Parsons, is the
widow of the late Dr. J. F. Millspaugh, who organized the public school
system and was the first superintendent of schools of Salt Lake City,
president of the Winona State Normal School in Minnesota, president
of the Los Angeles State Normal School, and more recently dean of
the Southern Branch of the University of California at Los Angeles.
The second daughter, Katherine Bushnell Parsons, is the wife of Dr.
Walter Prince Keene, an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.
Bertha is the wife of Harry Lyman Hibbard, who served as a chief
electrician in the government service during the late war. The young-
est daughter, Belfe, is the wife of Johann Friedrich Clewe, a teacher
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in one of the high schools of Los Angeles, whose father was one of
the pioneers of California. The only son, Maurice Giesy Parsons, is con-
nected as engineer with the great engineering corporation, the Lock-
wood Green Company. He married Miss Louise Wells, of Brooklyn,
whose parents were old Massachusetts pioneer stock.
B. H. Dyas. West of Chicago the largest sporting goods estab-
lishment in the United States is the B. H. Dyas Company, a business
•that is a monument to the enterprise of Mr. B. H. Dyas, who for over
twenty years has been actively identified with the commercial and civic
life^'of Los Angeles. His capacity for work, his dynamic energy, has
helped to place Los Angeles in the proud position she bears among the
great cities of the country.
Bernal H. Dyas was born in New York, May 20, 1883. When he
was eight years of age his family moved to St. Louis, where he was a
student in the grammar schools, and for two years attended Kirkwood
Military Academy at St. Louis. At the age of fourteen he came to
California. His first employment was as delivery boy with the William
H. Hoegee Company of Los Angeles. As a reward for diligent effort
he was put in charge of that firm's leading departments. Being ex-
tremely active, possessing initiative, and having an interest in athletics
of all kinds, he suggested to the firm that they enter the sporting goods
business. This suggestion was acted upon, and under his personal
supervision the department soon was one of the most successful of the
firm.
However, Mr. Dyas was not content to work altogether for the
other man. On the day he reached his majority he launched a sport-
ing goods business of his own, the outgrowth of which is the firm that
now bears his name, the B. H. Dyas Company.
Early in 1919 Mr. Dyas took a further step in the expansion of his
business when he bought the great Los Angeles landmark known as the
Ville de Paris, acquiring thereby the ownership of one of the largest
department store buildings in Los Angeles. This store at Seventh and
Olive streets is now the home of the B. H. Dyas Company. With a floor
space of about twenty-one thousand square feet, Mr. Dyas has spared
neither time, expense and the effort of thought on his own part and of
skilled associates in creating an environment that is unique for sport-
ing 'merchandise. The store has well been called "a sportsman's para-
dise," and there is probably not a desire of the sporting fraternity which
can not be readily satisfied by the Dyas Company. There is an entire
department devoted to aviation furnishings, while all the older sports
are of course generously represented. The store is even equipped with
such innovations as a rifle range and handball court, and in one part
of the store is built a rustic log cabin of logs taken from the Mariposa
Grove. This cabin, 30x30 feet, is practically dedicated to sportsmen
and sportsmen's organizations, and many of their meetmgs, both for-
mal and informal, have been held there.
One interesting comment made by the Evening Express in the edi-
torial columns following his purchase of the property on West Seventh
Street should be noted: "In any event, then, the entrance of Bernal
H. Dyas upon this field through the purchase of the Ville de Paris
would be regarded as important, but there are circumstances and con-
ditions that lend increased importance to this transaction.
"Mr. Dyas has spent the greater part of his life in Los Angeles. Still
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young, he has not only been the witness of, but a constant contributor
to the city's growth. Every movement that had for its purpose the for-
warding of the public interest has found in him, for twenty-five years,
a steadfast supporter.
"Shrewd, enterprising, courageous and yet a keen analyst of con-
ditions, thoroughly familiar with every circumstance affecting the city's
prospects, it is the judgment of Mr. Dyas that the long waited turn in
the tide is now at hand — the ebb is at an end, the flow sets inward.
When one so capable of judging reaches that conclusion and backs his ■
careful judgment with his capital, the confidence he manifests is happily
contagious. It diffuses itself throughout the community. Such examples
tend to put an end to doubt and apprehension. New courage is given
to others who but await the hour of opportunity themselves to act. Op-
timism is healthfully stimulated and the pessimism bred of uncertainty
hunts cover.
"This notable transaction well may be regarded as dating the revival
of the brave, hopeful spirit to which Los Angeles owes everything it
is and may yet become."
Mr. Dyas as a business man and citizen has formed many interest-
ing connections and associations with his home city. He is a member
of all the leading clubs, and a director of the Annandale Country Club.
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, an officer in the Al Malaikah Tem-
ple of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of other fraternal organizations.
He has been on the Board of Management of the Y. M. C. A., and a
member of the Personnel BoartI of the National War Work Council of
the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. He has served two years as a director of
the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and is an active member
of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. April 8, 1908, he married
Nancy Rhodes Marsh, of Dayton, Ohio. He is the proud father of two
boys, Bernal H. Dyas, jr., born in 1911, and David Richard Dyas, born
in 1916. ;
One of the most significant results of the great war was the gen-
erous and enthusiastic manner in which successful business men and men
of affairs responded to the call of their country and gave their services
without stint, and frequently at a sacrifice, to upholding and promoting
movements of pure patriotism. No one city or section of country had
a monopoly on such men, but it is giving honor where honor is due
to point them out and mention briefly their services which have been of
a kind which the future generations may well respect and admire.
Mr. Dyas' part in promoting patriotic movements was distinguished
by remarkable ability in connection with the most successful of Los
Angeles' parades. As grand marshal of the Preparedness parade he
handled the largest affair of the kind ever held on the Pacific Coast.
Over sixty-three thousand people were in the line of march that day.
Second to this was the Red Cross parade, of which he was also grand
marshal, and in which forty thousand people marched. His success as
grand marshal of the first, second and third Libertv Loan parades has
been the cause of much favorable comment from officials and the public
alike. As a fitting complimC'it to his work he was selected as grand
marshal of the combined Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Y. M. C. A.
and other war workers parade held in November, 1918.
Because of his organizing ability he was appointed by the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce to handle the Allied War Exposition at
Los Angeles. Through his earnest co-operation with the officials of
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that exposition Los Angeles was able to show the world that it had
more than a passing interest in war activities. Admissions during the
time the exposition was in Los Angeles totalled 195,094, a showing with
which the Bureau of Expositions at Washington was more than fa-
vorably surprised.
Mr. Dyas also ably handled the post exchange stores at various
cantonments for the supplying of officers with their equipment. He
has been very active in all civic afifairs, especially so in the work per-
taining to the raising of money for soldiers, sailors, Red Cross, Liberty
Loans and in Thrift Stamp campaigns. The value of such a man in
any community and nation is not easily overestimated and should not
soon be forgotten.
Milton E. Getz is a native son of California. He received a thor-
ough commercial training in San Francisco, and for the past seven
years has been a resident of Los Angeles, and a well known banker.
He was born at San Francisco in 1879, and was educated in the
public schools of that city. His father is president and a member of the
firm of Getz Brothers & Company of San Francisco, one of the largest
wholesale grocers and exporters on the Pacific Coast. Milton E. Getz
entered his father's business at the age of seventeen, and remained
actively in the business until the moving to Los Angeles. He is still
vice president of the company. For two years he resided in the Orient
looking after different branches of the concern, and he has acquired a
broad knowledge of foreign trade conditions.
In February, 1908, Mr. Getz married the daughter of the late
Kaspare Cohn, pioneer business man, banker and philanthropist of Los
Angeles, v/ho has separate mention in this work. In 1913 he moved
to Los Angeles, and on July 1, 1914, helped to organize the Kaspare
Cohn Commercial & Savings Bank, which later became the Union Bank
& Trust Co., of Los Angeles. Mr. Getz and Mr. Ben R. Meyer con-
trol the interests and activities of the bank.
Mr. Getz is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Olympic
Club of San Francisco, and other prominent social and business organi-
sations.
Wright M. Cooney is a well known Los Angeles lawyer. He
came here to begin practice thirteen years ago, and is also a gifted writer
and author.
Mr. Cooney was bom on a farm at Kenton, Ohio, in 1869, son of
James and Catherine Cooney. His father was a very successful farmer
and well known over Ohio as a breeder of draft horses. Wright M.
Cooney acquired his early education in the local schools, and later en-
tered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1894.
Afterward he came to Los Angeles, had a general practice for a time,
but is now employed exclusively as attorney by the Union Oil Company.
From early youth Mr. Cooney has been interested in human na-
ture and particularly of those fine manifestations of character as be-
trayed in the human physiognomy. He is author of published works on ,
human nature and the delineation of character by physical manifesta-
tions, and is employed in the regular production of articles for syndicate
publication on these subjects. Mr. Cooney is affiliated with the Masonic
Order and Knights of Pythias fraternity. He married in 1898, at Ken-
ton, Ohio, Maude Shaner. Their daughter, Marie, is a very talented
young musician.
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John Joseph Fav, Jr. While John Joseph Fav, Jr., came to South-
ern California after a successful business career in the east, he was never
satisfied to be a retired business man, and as a matter of fact was one
of the prominent bankers, oil men and public spirited citizens of Los
Angeles for many years.
The outstanding feature of his record as a public man was the great
service he performed as president of the Aqueduct Commission, an office
to which he was appointed by Mayor Meredith P. Snyder of Los
Angeles. One of the greatest pieces of engineering in the world, the
aqueduct has brought untold benefit to Los Angeles, and the gratitude
of this and subsequent generations is paid the men who were most influ-
ential in carrying out the project. The commission presided over by
Mr. Fay had the disbursement of twenty-three million dollars ior the
building of the Aqueduct, and in that office, as in everything else he
undertook, he discharged his duties with complete honor and integrity.
Mr. Fay was born at Detroit, Michigan, in 1853. His father,
John Joseph Fay, Sr., was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and located at
Detroit when a young man. Then and in later years he was a wholesale
grocery merchant. In 1854 he moved to Grand Rapids and in 1869
to Indianapolis, but after the death of his wife he returned to Detroit
and lived with his son until his death on December 30, 1898. He mar-
ried Catherine Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, of Philadelphia.
They were the parents of four sons and one daughter: John J., Louis,
Angelo, Frank and Catherine Fay.
John Joseph Fay, Jr., acquired a public school education and at an
early age became a bookkeeper with the lumber firm of T. D. Stimson
& Company. He became actively associated with Mr. T. D. Stim-
son at Big Rapids, Michigan, in the early seventies, and for nearly
twenty years was prominent in lumber circles in Michigan and the mid-
dle west.
Mr. Fay came to California in the early nineties. Here he em-
ployed his resources to engage in the banking business and served for
seven years as president of the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles,
and at the time of his death was director of that institution, also of the
Citizens Trust & Savings Bank. After seven years he resigned as presi-
dent of the bank to engage in the oil business, having acquired extensive
holdings in the Fullerton Oil Company and became president of that
corporation.
Mr. Fay died March 11, 1918, at the age of sixty-four. In politics
he was a stanch democrat, was a member of the Catholic Newman Club,
and was an ardent sportsman, having membership in the California Club,
was a charter member of the Bolsa Chica Gun Club and the Tuna Club
of Catalina.
In 1875 he married Miss Jane Stimson, a daughter of his business
partner T. D. Stimson. Mrs. Fay died while making a tour of the
world at Rome, Italy, in 1906. She was the mother of two sons and
one daughter, Louis, Clarence, and Anna Fay. At Los Angeles, July
29, 190S, Mr. Fay married Agatha J. Sabichi. Mrs. Fay, who survives
her honored husband and resides at 2432 Figueroa street, is a native oT
Los Angeles and represents two of the oldest and most prominent
families of Southern California. Her father was one of the most prom-
inent lawyers of his day, and her mother was a daughter of William
Wolfskin, one of the first American settlers in Southern California.
More extended reference to both the Sabichi and Wolfskill families is
made on other pages of this publication. Mrs. Fay is the mother of two
children, John Francis and Edward Richard Fay.
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Kaspare Cohn. Here and there through this pubHcation, as the
history of several big business organizations and public utilities is given,
and in the stories of successful business men, there is reference again
and again to Kaspare Cohn, whose personal and financial resources en-
tered into the fabric of such institutions, and it has always been ap-
parently regarded as a privilege on the part of other men to mention
their associations with him
Mr. Cohn had lived in Southern California for fifty years before
his death, which occurred at his residence in Los Angeles, November
19, 1916. He had come here a youth with limited resources, but long
before death overtook him his name was one of the most honored in the
entire city. He was born at Loeban in West Prussia, June 14, 1839.
His first enterprise at Los Angeles wrs a retail grocery store. It any
man possessed a genius for business it was Kaspare Cohn. He under-
stood how to co-ordinate details into a smooth running system resulting
in great business enterprises. For a number of years he was associated
with Harris Newmark in the wholesale grocery house of H. Newmark
& Company, later known as M. A. Newmark & Company. Another
extensive business conducted under his name was in the wool, hide and
tallow industry. He was one of the original owners of the La Puente
rancho, which he and his associates sold to E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin for
two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
The story of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, the
Southern California Gas Company, and several other great pubkc utili-
ties mention Mr. Cohn as one of the original stockholders. His realty
holdings comprise an imposing acreage, some of it in Los Angeles
county and the San Joaquin Valley and also including some of the most
valuable business blocks of Los Angeles. This estate alone it is claimed
has an aggregate value of millions.
He was a banker, and took a great personal interest in the organi-
zation on July 1, 1914, of the Kaspare Cohn Commercial and Savings
Bank, and served as its president until forced by illness to retire about
a year before his death. Since his death the name of the bank has
been changed to the Union Bank & Trust Co. of Los Angeles, and its
affairs are carried on by his two sons-in-law, Ben R. Meyer, president,
and Milton E. Getz, vice president.
Many men construct fortunes of material affairs, but achieve no
marked success in the wise use and disposition of their means. Mr.
Cohn had a double credit, since there are thousands of people in Los
Angeles who knew him in the character of a philanthropist rather than
as a business man and banker. All his charity was done quietly and un-
ostentatiously, and the only philanthropy which bears his name is the
Kaspare Cohn Hospital, founded and financed by him, and one of the
model institutions of the city.
Mr. Cohn is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hulda Cohn, and their
two daughters, Mrs. Ben R. Meyer and Mrs. Milton E. Getz.
Few men in their passing receive more spontaneous tributes of
affection and regard than did the late Mr. Cohn. While the general serv-
ices were held at his home and in very simple rite more than two hun-
dred persons were present to honor his memory, and while despite
family request a tremendous offering of flowers was made, many others
expressed their tribute through the contribution of sums to the Federa-
tion of Jewish Charities in the. name of Kaspare Cohn. On the Sat-
urday following his death a memorial service was held at the Temple
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B'nai B'rith. The funeral was conducted by Dr. S. Hecht of the Tem-
ple, for many years a close personal friend of Mr. Cohn. In the course
of his address Dr. Hecht said: "A man has three names; he bears the
name his parents gave him at birth, the world gives him a name, and
he has the name he makes for himself. It is by this latter name that he
is judged. Our departed brother did not belong to his family only.
He was of the city and of humanity, for his works were humanitarian
in nature and extensive in scope."
Miss Grace Wilson. Southern California has many interesting
women and none more thoroughly consecrated to their chosen work than
iViiss Grace Wilson, one of the most prominent leaders in the world
wide New Thought movement.
She was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and when a small
child moved to North Dakota, where she grew up on the prairie, attend-
ing public school and also the University of Dakota. She spent .geveral
years in the study of vocal music and early dedicated her voice to God.
Though reared a Presbyterian, she Ijecame attracted to the pre-
sentation of the Christ idea as expressed in Christian Science, and made
a thorough study of Christian Science when about twenty-five years of
age. However, she found that she could not be a willing convert to the
presentation of Truth through any single teacher, and eventually found
the broader message of the New Thought movement infinitely more far-
reaching and satisfying. About 1909 she came to Los Angeles to make
her permanent home and for several years was associated with Annie
Rix Militz of the Home of Truth in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Her work has been done for both children and adults but especially
with children.
In 1914 she was one of a party of four who made a trip with Mrs.
Militz around the world, meeting many of the leading New Thought
teachers abroad. During the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
of 1915 she was secretary of an extensive propaganda conducted under
the auspices of New Thought, the propaganda consisting of lectures given
by all the leading teachers in all the branches of the advanced New
Thought. In September of that year the first annual congress of the
International New Thought Alliance was held in San Francisco. At
that time Miss Wilson was elected general secretary, and at the close
of the year moved to Washington, D. C, and established a general
headquarters for the Alliance. For two years that was her work and
through her close attention to detail, all the while keeping a large vision
of 1 he movement, she was able to lay the foundation of the present world
movement. All the time she was in Washington she longed for the
charms of Los Angeles and at the beginning of 1918 returned to this
city.
In the fall of 1918 Miss Wilson opened the Universal New Thought
Studio in the Brack Shops. Her idea was to carry on a small work of
individual teaching and healing in the ardent philosophy which had
transformed her own life. She soon found that her associations with
the World .'-Mliance made it impossible for her to work alone. In a few
months she had moved to larger quarters, where extensive lecture courses
were conducted by the leading exponents of New Thought. Miss Wil-
son herself does very little public work, but everyone feels that she
is the mighty power behind the throne and her spirit pervades the en-
tire organization.
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A. Blanchard Miller. In many lines of useful effort A. Blanch-
ard Miller has been a virile citizen of California, to which state he
came in 1893. It is not unusual to find men of great enterprise and
business achievement in Southern California, and it is to this class that
Mr. Miller belongs.
A. Blanchard Miller was born at Richlands, North Carolina, Sep-
tember 5, 1878. His parents were Joseph Kempster and Eliza (Blanch-
ard) Miller, and among his ancestors were Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, the hero of the battle of Lake Erie, and Gurdon Saltonstall,
colonial governor of Connecticut, who was instrumental in securing the
location of Yale University at New Haven. Thoroughly educated with
a professional career in view, Mr. Miller determined on a business life
instead, and in 1897 began farming in the Perris Valley of Southern
California, where he had about 500 acres of land in grain at first, which
by 1901 he had increased to 5,000 acres. Then came years of drouth
and his grain and livestock depreciated in price, under which circum-
stances he turned his attention in another direction to some extent, em-
barking in the contracting business, and was concerned with the con-
struction of important railroads. In 1904 lie went to Imperial Valley,
California, as a contraiitor, and built a large portion of the canal
system that waters what is known as "Number 8" of the Imperial
Valley, and also graded much of the townsite of Brawley.
In 1905, in association with several San Bernardino County men, he
leased from the Fontana Development Company 8,000 acres near Rialto,
California, taking an option on the land with the right to purchase it.
After farming- the land to grain for one year, Mr. Miller with partners,
organized the Fontana Land & Water Company, which corporation im-
mediately contracted to buy the San Francisco Savings Union's interest
in the Fontana Development Company, after which transaction the Fon-
tana Land & Water Company began the development of the land — some
19,000 acres — through irrigation, making it one of the most valuable
tracts in San Bernardino County.
Although continuing to be actively engaged with the Fontana De-
velopment project, Mr. Miller continued his contracting business and in
1906 built for the United States Government the first levees on the Yuma
project, twelve miles below Yuma, Arizona, on the Colorado River.
The solidity of this work brought Mr. Miller to the front in the field
of engineering, and he received battering oft'ers from leading New York
Engineers for his services. He was loyal, however, to California, and
declined what appeared to be most advantageous Inisiness connections.
With the purchase in 1907 of Lakeview Ranch in Riverside County,
Mr. Miller came into possession of a tract of 6,000 acres, which he
farmed for a season, but later sold to the Nuevo Land Company, which
he had organized. He continued the operation of the Fontana Land &
Water Company's lands for two years longer, then took over the inter-
ests of his former partners, and became associated with large banking
interests in Los Angeles. Mr. Miller has continuously since supervised
the building of the extensive irrigation system that waters the Fontana
properties, and as president and manager of the Fontana Company has
directed the development of the Fontana project, which includes planting
what is perhaps the largest citrus grove in the world, over 5,000 acres.
As the years have gone by Mr. Miller's activities have continued to
expand. In addition to the offices held by him in the Fontana Company
he is equally prominent in numerous allied concerns, including the Fon-
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tana Land Company, the Fontana Water Company, the Fontana Union
Water Company, the Rialto Domestic Water Company, the Lytle Creek
Water Company, the Fontana Farms Company, which he organized in
1918, and the Fontana Power Company, whose plant was completed in
January, 1918. Mr. Miller is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Jovian
Order and the Newport Yacht Club, and belongs to the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at San Bernardino, California. He takes no
active part in political campaigns, but his actions speak loudly enough
as to his worthy citizenship.
Arthur O. Overell is vice president and general manager of the
J. M. Overell Furniture Company, 700-708 South Main street, Los
Angeles. This is a business of land standing, and one that has popu-
larized itself on the basis of good service and merchandise until it is one
of the leading establishments of its kind in Southern California.
The year of its founding was 1899. The firm of Louden & Overell
entered business that year at 538-540 South Spring street. The store
was wiped out in a disastrous fire in 1902, at which time the firm dis-
solved partnership. Mr. J. M. Overell, father of A. O. Overell, then
resumed business on his own account at 652 S(»uth Spring Street, where
he remained until 1906, when the store was moved to its present site.
On the removal the house was incorporated as the J. M. Overell Fur-
niture Company, with a paid up capital stock of a hundred fifty thou-
sand dollars. On the death of J. M. Overell in December, 1912, A. O.
Overell as vice president and general manager took over the active man-
agement, and has carried the enterprise through many successive steps
of advancement and improvement in the past eight years. Just recently
the capital stock was increased to $250,000, The stock carried is com-
prehensive, featuring the popular grades of furniture. In addition to
the main store a large warehouse is maintained at Eighth Street and
Santa Fe Avenue. The reputation of the house for honest merchandis-
ing has been the result of many years devoted to a careful conduct of
the business.
Mr. A. O. Overell was born at Evansville, Indiana, January 9, 1882,
and received his education in his native city, but has lived in Los Angeles
since he was seventeen years old. In 1904 he married Miss Grace
Brizius, and they have two sons. Their home is at South Pasadepa.
Mr. Overell by virtue of his long connection with the comm.ercial
affairs of Los Angeles, is a firm believer in its future opportunities,
and all movements which have as their object the advancement and im-
provement of the city and environs along commercial and civic lines
receive his hearty endorsement and active support.
Robert Bkuxtox. The initiateil who keep in touch with the pro-
gressive figures in the theatrical art need no introduction to the name
and work of Robert Brunton of Los Angeles. One of the dominant
characteristics of the man is to talk little of himself, due doubtless to
the fact that he has always allowed his art to speak for itself. Never-
theless even a brief story of his life has many points of interest.
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated in London. His
father, John Brunton, was a distinguished scenic and landscape painter
in Scotland. His mother was a talented actress of her day, while an
aunt, Mme. De Vere, was noted as a singer.
Robert Brunton began the study of art at the age of fourteen in
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the Royal Academy of London. At seventeen he joined the scenic staff
of the Lyceum Theatre in London, and had the inestimable privilege of
working under the direction of Havv-cs-Craven, one of the greatest scenic
painters modern Europe has ever known. Mr. Craven at that time was
head of Sir Henry Irving's productions in Shakespearean drama. Un-
der Mr. Craven young Brunton worked daily in the Irving atmosphere.
Sir Henry Irving was not only a great actor but had the qualities of a
successful business man, particularly in his ability to surround himself
with men of the highest efficiency in their particular lines and making
the heads of his various departments completely responsible for
results. Before he was twenty-one Robert Brunton had been made
head of the scenic department of the Irving Company, with a hvm-
dred men under him. Mr. Brunton toured America for two seasons
when Irving and Terry appeared in this country. At the close of the
second tour he determined to remain in America, feeling that he had
greater opportunities here for work and growth. Nevertheless his early
days were ripe in experience and trials. He became affiliated at New
York with the Shubert and Hammerstein organization, turning out
quantities of scenic work for them. As a diversion he and some of his
very good friends formed a company that toured Long Island. He
painted all the scenes and sometimes doubled and played two parts if
necessary.
In 190(>, at Cleveland, Mr. Brunton married Miss Jane Holly, a
beautifuj actress of the New York stage, and daughter of H. L. Flash,
a New Orleans business man and poet. After his marriage Mr. Brun-
ton came to Los Angeles and became art director and head of the scenic
department of the Morosco theater. He was with that institution until
1914. Among his notable productions during that time was the "Arab,"
and as scenic artist for that production he had the unusual distinction
of being called before the curtain on the first night. In 1914 he made
a tour of Europe, coming back when war was declared.
During the following eighteen months he was connected with the
old "Triangle" organization, made, up of Messrs. Griffith, Sennett and
Ince. He became art director of this company, and its first production
was under his direction. About 1917 Mr. Brunton became head of the
Paralto Company as production manager.
In the meantime an idea had taken possession of him and for a
number of months he tested its practicality by every experience within
his scope. His idea was to create an independent studio where the
independent creator or actor could work out his ideas without the neces-
sity of powerful financial backing and a complete technical organization
for that purpose. About a year or so ago Mr. Brunton began the exe-
cution of his formulated plans with one glass stage and two open stages
in a tangle of vine>'ard. The vitality of his idea and the substantial
results he has achieved in following out his ideal is now represented by
the solid and enduring quality of the buildings and the general estab-
lishment of the Brunton studio at 5341 Mcltose Avenue. There are
twenty-six permanent buildings on the lot, all having to do with the
making of pictures, besides sets and temporary structures. It was not
long before the independent producer heard of the "People's Studio,"
where first class equipment was furnished and all the technical assist-
ance and management were ready at hand so as to leave the inspiration
of the artist freest and fullest scope. Mr. Brunton's ability to handle
details has been of invaluable assistance to the independent prorlucer. He
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can figure the cost of an entire production with mathematical accuracy
without pencil or paper. One very generous policy of Mr. Brunton is
that any ambitious boy who knocks at the gate is admitted and is given
the advantage of the artist's personal interest. Had Shakespeare pre-
pared an article on Robert Brunton he might have written "A modest
man withal, who doth meet the importuning of the interviewer with a
well bred reticence and an enigmatical smile."
This studio, one of the features of the Los Angeles artistic colony,
began with a ten-acre lot, but now covers more than fifty acres, thirty-
five acres devoted to sets. Adjoining is a ranch of five hundred fifty
acres within ten minutes ride from the studio. Mr. Brunton now has
five stages in operation, with a sixth under construction. He has scenic
artists for painting scenes for various companies using his studios, and
also a wood carver who can design furniture for any period. He has a
wonderful collection of art to be used in pictures, one warehouse being
filled with hand carved furniture. On the grounds is a private gymna-
sium, with Paul Mullen, physical instructor, in charge. It has taken
Mr. Brunton less than a year and a half to build this wonderful place,
now one of the largest studios in the world. His own beautiful home
is also a feature of the studio grounds.
Mr. Brunton for all his modesty has a wonderful array of versa-
tile gifts. He is a skillful electrician, is completely at home as a chef
in his own kitchen, is very fond of motoring, an expert fencer and
swimmer, and altogether a pleasing and kindly personality. He is some-
times called "the Henry Irving of the screen."
Emil K.wser. a resident of Pasadena for the past thirty-five years,
and a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, came to California from
Omaha, Nebraska, in 1884.
His father for many years was a general merchant at Bellevue near
Omaha, Nebraska. Emil was one of four sons and three daughters
reared in that town, being the only member of the family in California.
He attended public school at Bellevue, but left home at the age of four-
teen. His early business experience was acquired in Omaha and later
in Denver, Colorado, in which city he spent three years.
In the fall of 1884 he came to Pasadena and associated himself
with Mr. A. Cruickshank, with whom he had been first connected in
Omaha in the dry goods business. The Pasadena firm was known under
the name of Cruickshank & Company and continued as general dry
goods merchants there for a number of years.
On selling his interests with Cruickshank & Company Mr. Kayser
became a partner of the late F. B. Wetherby, a prominent resident of
Pasadena whose career has been reviewed elsewhere in this publica-
tion. The object of their original association was to engage in the busi-
ness of real estate and subdividing.
During 1887 and 1888 they built the Wetherby-Kayser Building in
Pasadena and started the Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company. That was
the beginning of the big shoe business now handled under the firm name
in Los Angeles. A branch store was established at Second and Broad-
way in Los Angeles in 1902, and the following year thev sold the Pasa-
dena establishment, and made the Los Angeles branch their head-
quarters. In that store they developed the well founded and highly
standardized business which today ranks as one of the best of its kind on
the Pacific Coast.
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Mr. Kayser's home is still in Pasadena, and he continues to be one
of the city's most loyal residents. He is identified with the Valley Hunt
Club of Pasadena, is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles,
and his public spirit has led him into active participation with many
movements for the betterment of the community. He is also a member
of the Presbyterian churjh at Pasadena.
On July 15, 1892, Mr. Kayser married Miss Gertrude Visscher, of
Pasadena. Incidentally it should be noted that he and Mr. Wetherby
married sisters, and their business partnership was therefore the stronger
welded by the tie of family relationship. The marriage ceremony was
performed at the Visscher home on South Madison avenue, and fol-
lowing this event Mr. and Mrs. Kayser established themselves in their
own new home at the corner of Madison and Center avenues, in which
place they have lived for over a quarter of a century and where their
four children were born. The three children living are Nancy, Frederic
V. and Greftchen. Emily Gertrude, the third child, died in infancy. The
two daughters, Nancy and Gretchen, are well known Pasadena society
girls, Gretchen being a student in the Marlborough School of Los
Angeles. The son Frederic is a Leland Stanford man, now associated
with his father in the Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Company at 416-418
West Seventh Street, where the attractive new store has been in opera-
tion for the past two years.
Joseph Scott. One of the handiest measures of fame ever devised
was described by Kipling as the appreciation of at least twenty thousand
people focused and centered upon a single individual or his works. A
vastly greater popularity, not only numerically, but in dispersion through
many elements of the English speaking races, has been achieved by
Joseph Scott of Los Angeles. His name stands for something out of
the ordinary in personality and achievement.
Joseph Scott was born at Penrith, Cumberland county, England,
July 16, 1867, son of Joseph and Mary (Donnelly) Scott. His father
was a native of Cumberland of a border Scotch family, while his mother
was a native of Wexford, Ireland, where they were married. . Joseph
Scott was educated at St. Cuthbert's, Ushaw, Durham, England, matri-
culated with honors in London Universitv in 1887, and came to America
in 1889. In 1893 he was graduated A. M. from St. Bonaventure's Col-
lege at Allegany, New York. Several institutions of learning have hon-
ored him in recent years. He holds the honorary Ph. D. degree from
Santa Clara College of California, awarded in 1907;, LL. D. from St.
Bonaventure College of Allegany, awarded in 1914; and LL. D. from
Notre Dame University, Indiana, in 1915 ; in 1918 he was accorded the
Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana,
thereby joining the roll of distinguished American Catholics who have
been similarly honored by this University, which every year awards this
decoration to some noted Catholic layman who has performed notable
achievements in some public way. The roll of Laetare Medalists includes
Chief Justice White of the Supreme Court of the United States, Rear
Admiral Benson, Bourke Cochran, etc.
Mr. Scott was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Cali-
fornia, September 4, 1894, and subsequently admitted in the Supreme
Court of Arizona and the Supreme Court of the United States. For a
quarter of a century, therefore, he has had an active membership in thg
Los Angeles bar. While in general practice he has specialized in trial
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work where his resourcefulness as an orator and advocate has brought
him many triumphs in court battles of California and Arizona. He
is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association, the California Bar
Association, and the American Bar Association.
Mr. Scott was the principal 'and the plaintiff in the theories of libel
litigation with the Los Angeles Times, a case that is destined to be a land-
mark in California law and procedure and one of the most notable trials
of the kind in the country within recent years. While libel cases have
been successfully prosecuted against various California newspapers this
was the first time in the thirty-two years of its existence that the Los
Angeles Times was ever mulcted in damages m such a case.
Mr. Scott secured a jury verdict for a judgment of thirty-seven thou-
sand five hundred dollars in March, 1916, and more than three years
later, after the case had gone to the Appellate Court, the judgment was
finally affirmed by the Supreme Court in October, 1919. The verdict
rendered was for seven thousand five hundred dollars compensatory
damages and thirty thousand dollars punitive damages. One of the out-
standing featues of the trial was the vigor and unflinching courage with
which Mr. Scott assailed the responsible editor of the paper, who with
his staff" was present in the court room during the entire argument. The
case was not only bitterly fought in the trial courts, but the briefs and
oral arguments partook of the same scathing character before the Su-
preme Court. The verdict and judgment of the lower court were sus-
tained by the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in every par-
ticular, the Appellate Court declining to accede to the views of the lawyers
for the Times that Mr. Scott had exceeded the bounds of propriety and
was guilty of misconduct in the character of his argument to the jury.
The opinion of the Supreme Court, affirming the judgment, is of a
voluminous character, and contains a masterful review of the libel law
and for that reason will doubtless, be a leading case for lawyers to
quote in every state of the Union not only because of the particular ele-
ment involved, but the wide scope and research in the presentation of
the matter to the Appellate Court and the careful analysis given to every
conceivable question by the court itself.
Subsecjuent to his own case in the lower courts Mr. Scott assisted
with other attorneys in securing a thirty thousand dollar verdict against
the Los Angeles Times on behalf of the late Edwin T. Earl, at that time
editor of the Evening Express and Morning Tribune. The jury's ver-
dict, rendered after Mr. Scott's closing argument, provided for twenty-
five thousand dollars compensatory damages and five thousand dollars
punitive damages.
Outside of the court room and legal forum Joseph Scott is an ora-
tor of great and dramatic power, and one of the fevv men in modern
times who probably realize the old qualifications of the orator, the ability
to move and impel great audiences within the hearing of his voice to new
lines of thought and action. Some of the striking characteristics of his
character as an orator were noted by his admirer C. P. Connollv in de-
scribing a speech made by Mr. Scott some years ago. "I shall never
forget the spell of his speech any more than I shall ever forget the tall,
lithe, powerful figure, a human dynamo of wit, eloquence and imagery,
which seemed to throw off its sparks of fact and fancv, rhapsody and
raillery, with such magnetism and animation, such mirth-provoking sal-
lies, that the convention was swept off its feet."
In his article Mr. Connolly sought to temper his own enthusiastic
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judgment by quoting the words of Charles F. Lumniis: "I have known
Los Angeles for a third of a century and I do not recall another time
when six thousand people sat two hours to listen to one man and a
'local' man at that. That audience came receptive — it went away full to
overflowing with the very message it was awaiting- — a message stirring
as a bugle call of patriotism. The leonine presence of the speaker and
his voice 'as the Bulls of Bashan' gave wings to his big thought. Talking
to an audience of Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Epis-
copalians, Christian Scientists, Adventists and Agnostics, Scott seemed
to fuse them all to a common feeling. The sincerity which was clearly
from the marrow of his bones ; the exalted patriotism ; the swift Irish
wit which played spontaneous as lightning — these fitted with the thought
and the occasion. I have heard the greatest orators of America in their
prime, from Wendell Phillips on. But I shall always remember Lin-
coln's birthday in Los Angeles, 1917, and Joe Scott's talk to that text."
Some years ago Mr. Scott journeyed back to his native land and was
one of the speakers at his old school at Ushaw, when the centenary
of the alma mater was being celebrated. In the audience was repre-
sented the brains and the intellect of Great Britain, both clerical and lay.
Feeling some embarrassment at the fact, Mr. Scott nevertheless deliv-
ered a characteristic address, which later Cardinal Bourne pronounced as
tlie speech of the celebration.
Outside of his career as a lawyer and orator Mr. Scott has to
his credil a number of commendable activities. He served as a mem-
ber of the Los Angeles School Board from 1904 to 1915, being presi-
dent from 1906 to 1911. In 1910 he was president and from 1906 to
1917 served as a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
In 1915 he was an honorary vice president of the Panama- Pacific Expo-
sition at San Francisco. He served as a member of the Charter Revi-
sion Commission of Los Angeles in 1902. He is vice president of the
Southwest Museum.
During the war he was chairman of the District Draft Board, Divi-
sion No. 1, Southern California, having jurisdiction over thirty-three
local boards in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego.
Also during the summer of 1918 he was a special commissioner for
overseas work of the Knights of Columbus in France and England, and
visited the war zone. He is a republican in politics, a member of the
Catholic church, is former president and director of the Newman Club,
and a member of the California, Sunset, Celtic, City and Los Angeles
Athletic clubs.
June 6, 1898, he married Bertha Roth, of San Francisco, and there
have been eleven children born of their happy union.
Holmes Disappearing Bed Company. The marvelous growth of
Los Angeles has been due, in part, to the many attractions oflfered the
newcomer as a residential city ; a home place in every sense of the word.
Nestled between the mountains and the sea, with ideal climatic con-
ditions and school facilities par excellence, thousands of people from all
sections of our country were keen to realize its superior environment as
a place of permanent abode.
With the rapid advancement of population new homes, as well
as apartments and flat buildings, were everywhere in demand. Probably
no city in the United States has taken greater pride in the erection of-
such buildings, both from an artistic and novel point of view. A sort
of civic interest was manife.sted in the planning and construction, until
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a pleasant rivalry existed as to who could best devise the most prac-
tical and ideal arrangement.
Perhaps nothing has contributed more to economy of space, em-
bracing unique ideas, than the disappearing beds. The idea was, of
course, to conserve space ordinarily used by a becL- There seemed to
be no reason why a bed should continuously occupy such a large area,
especially when it was only called into service one-third of the time.
The bed room by such an arrangement could be made as attractive as
a den or sitting room, and the labor incidental thereto reduced to a
minimum. When, too, renovation of the space under the old style of bed
was always fraught with difficulties of which any housewife is aware.
Today, especially, it is a recognized fact that labor is a large factor in
the home, and anything that conserves space likewise conserves labor.
The disappearing bed as originally planned could be rolled with
little effort into a clean, sanitary and ventilated recess, utilizing the
space over same in the rear in many different ways ; such as built in
kitchen cupboards, linen closet and dressing tables.
The Holmes Disappearing Bed Company which originated and in-
troduced this space-saving bed, together with various other types, is
recognized throughout the United States as a leader in its line. Some
fifty thousand have been installed in Los Angeles and vicinity.
The company first started the manufacture of its products in a small
building located on North Figueroa street in the year 1906. Owing to
increasing demands for these goods, it was necessary in 1908 to seek
larger quarters, and consequently a permanent factory, ample to take
care ot this growing business, was erected at Johnson street and Al-
hambra avenue.
Many additions, since then, have been made to the plant and at the
present time it covers a ground area of 300x300 feet with floor space of
120,000 square feet. The capacity today is about 800 beds per month
and in normal times the factory employs about eighty skilled workmen.
Mr. Bernard S. Holmes is senior member of the Holmes Disap-
pearing Bed Co., Millan H. Holmes is manager of the Chicago office ;
Verne L. Holmes is factory manager ; and Gene C. Holmes is sales man-
ager.
The business continues to occupy handsome display rooms on the
ground floor of the Pacific Electric Building, where many thousands of
people from all parts of the world have viewed with great interest and
amazement these wonderful beds.
In order to more expeditiously serve the eastern territory a fac-
tory has been established in Chicago, and from there agencies have been
organized in various cities until the Holmes Disappearing Bed Co. now
has a truly national service.
Col. Ch.\rles R. Drake, Xo one could desire a better monu-
ment than the Virginia Hotel at Long Beach and tlie service which it
represents. While it was founded and built by a stock company. Col.
Charles R. Drake has from the first been one of the largest stockholders
and vice-president of the company, and since 1907 the president and
general manager, and the man whose genius has given the hotel its
big place in Southern California.
Colonel Drake, who was born more than three quarters of a cen-
tury ago. has been a man of means for many years, but has found the
real satisfaction of living in experience, and his experiences have been
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romantic as well as useful. He was born at Walnut Prairie, Illinois,
July 26, 1843, a son of Charles and Mahala Jane (Jeter) Drake. He
was educated in the public schools of Illinois, and in 1863, at the age
of nineteen, left a position as a drug clerk to volunteer in the United
States Navy. He was acting master's mate from 1863 to 1865, serving
under Admiral D. D. Porter in the Mississippi Squadron. At the end
of the war he resumed his former occupation in New York, but subse-
quently became hospital steward in the United States Army service under
Surgeon General Barnes. He was assigned to duty under General Crook,
then commanding the Department of Arizona, and in 1871 was sta-
tioned at Fort Lowell, Tucson, Arizona. Some of the most picturesque
and eventful years of his life Colonel Drake spent in Arizona. After four
years in the army he retired to civil life and was appointed postmaster
at Tucson, an office he filled four years. He also engaged in the general
insurance and real estate business there. He was elected county recorder
in 1881 and 1883 and under President Harrison was appointed to the
office of receiver of public monies in the United States Land Office at
Tucson. Arizona was his home for thirty years, and he was again and
again honored with offices of trust and responsibility, being twice elected
to the Territorial Senate and for one term was president of that body. At
the same time he was actively concerned with a number of business enter-
prises. He organized in 1893 the firm of Norton-Drake Company, his
associate being the late Major John H. Norton. This company handled
for many years large labor contracts for the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company.
With a comfortable fortune Colonel Drake retired and moved to
Los Angeles in 1900, but the years of his retirement have been marked
by more active business connections than the average man in his prime.
He was one of the first to recognize the great possibilities of Long Beach
as a popular seaside residence city. He backed his judgment with large
investments, and has been the means of concentrating an enormous
amount of capital in that city. Some of his larger connections with
the development of Long Beach and Southern California are indicated
by the following connections. He is president and general manager and
one of the largest stockholders of the Seaside Water Company : president
and general manager of the Long Beach Bath House and Amusement
Company ; president and general manager of the Seaside Investment Com-
pany, owning and operating the Hotel Virginia, and financially interested
in many other large business aiTairs at Long Beach and in Southern
California. Several of these corporations were organized in 1901, and
Colonel Drake had as his active associate then and for a number of years
later the late Frederick H. Rindge, of Los Angeles ; George I. Cochran,
president of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company; Dr. W. W.
Beckett, medical director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company ;
H. V. Carter, president of the Carter Motor Company, of San Francisco,
and Charles H. Howland, of Centinella.
Probably no one institution has done more to popularize the won-
derful resources of Southern California than the Virginia Hotel. It
covers an entire block, 430x428 feet, with hotel and grounds extending
from Ocean Avenue to the ocean shore, its setting affording unexcelled
facilities for the enjoyment of the seaside and all other attractions of
Southern California's climate. The Hotel Virginia is beautiful and
luxurious, has developed a unique perfection of service, and probably
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more of the high class social life of California centers around this hotel
than any other one institution.
Colonel Drake is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles,
the Los Angeles Country Club and is the organizer of the Virginia
Country Club of Long Beach, which is one of the attractions for the
Hotel Virginia. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of
Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, and a member of several secret
orders.
In 1872, at Tucson, Arizona, Colonel Drake married Agripine
Moreno. They were the parents of Jean G., William L., Albert Garfield,
Elizabeth Jane and Pinita Rivers Drake. On April 30, 1890, Colonel
Drake married at Tucson, Arizona, Mrs. Kate A. Seeley. To this mar-
riage was born one daughter. Marguerite Rivers Drake (Mrs. C. W.
Kemmler). Colonel Drake makes his home at the Hotel Virginia, of
which company he is president and general manager, and still keeps in
close touch with the many extensive business interests represented by
the corporate titles above mentioned.
Judge John W. Shenk, who has been one of the judges of the
Superior Court in Los Angeles county since 1913, has been a member
of the Los Angeles bar since 1903. He was born at Shelburne, Vermont,
February 7, 1875, and is a son of Rev. J. W. Shenk, D. D., wlio was
ordained a Methodist minister in 186<;) and is now a member of the Cali-
fornia Conference, though his last active work as a minister was done
in Nebraska. Before the father married he spent two years as a Method-
ist Missionary in South America. He was bom at Cqbleskill, New
York. His grandmother was a Shafer, a granddaughter of Peter Shafer,
a member of the Militia during the Revolutionary war. Peter Shafer
was seriously wounded in the battle of Cobleskill. He was later Judge
of the Common Pleas of New York. Rev. D. Shenk was editor of the
Omaha Christian A'dvocate from 1890 to 1900, and in the latter year
moved to California and has since been practically retired. He married
Susana Cake Brooks, a native of New Jersey, and related to the Miller
family, old residents of Cape May, New Jersey. Rev. Dr. Shenk and wife
have four sons and two daughters, all living, namely : Rev. William
Washington, Edmond Simpson, Judge John Wesley, Adolphus Mallalien,
Mary Miller, wife of H. C. Wilson of Hemet, California, and Sue Cor-
delia, a teacher in the Alhambra public schools. Rev. Dr. Shenk and wife
came to California in 1900 and the latter's application for desert land
was the first put on file for the Imperial Valley project, while Rev. Mr.
Shenk's application was the second.
Judge Shenk spent most of his boyhood at Omaha, Nebraska, grad-
uating from the high school of that city in 1895. From there he en-
tered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, taking his A. B. degree
in 1900. His university course was interrupted when he volunteered
for service in the Spanish-American war. He left his junior class in
college to join Company A of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the
first call for troops. He was with his regiment until the close of
hostilities, and saw active service on the Island of Porto Rico. After
leaving Ohio Wesleyan he attended the Law School of the University
of Michigan, and in September, 1900, came to Los Angeles and filed
upon a half section of land in the Imperial Valley. He then resumed
his work in law school in Michigan and from January, 1902, to June,
1903, lived on and worked his ranch in the Imperial Valley. He then
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attended summer school at the University of Michigan and in October,
1903, returned to Los Angeles, being admitted to the bar in the same
month. He engaged in a general practice of the law until August, 1906,
when he was appointed deputy city attorney of Los Angeles. He served
as deputy and first assistant in the office until August, 1910, when he
was appointed city attorney. He was elected to the office of city attor-
ney in 1911 for a two year term. He was appointed judge of the Su-
perior Court in August, 1913, and in November, 1914, was given the
office by virtue of regular election for a term of six years, which ex-
pires January, 1, 1921. Judge Shenk is a republican in political affiHa-
tions.
He is a past master of South Pasadena Lodge No. 367, F. and A. M.,
is a member of Los Angeles Consistory No. 3 of the Scottish Rite. He
is also a member of East Gate Chapter, R. A. M., and Al Malaikah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine and is affiliated with Los Angeles Lodge
No. 99 of the Elks. He is a member of the college fraternities Beta
Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi. He belongs to the Los Angeles and State
Bar Association, and is member of the First Methodist Episcopal church
of Los Angeles.
At the home of the bride at South Pasadena June 29, 1907, Judge
Shenk married Miss Lenah R. Custer. Her father. Lieutenant Samuel
M. Custer, was an officer in the 26th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during
the Civil war and was related to General George Custer. Mrs. Shenk's
mother, living with Judge and Mrs. Shenk, is Almira T. (White) Cus-
ter. Mrs. Shenk was born at Homer, Illinois, was educated in the
public schools there and in Chicago, and is a member of South Pasa-
dena Woman's Club and of Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution at South Pasadena. Judge Shenk is a member of the Cali-
fornia Chapter of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution. He
and his family reside at 1425 Laurel Street in South Pasadena. They
have two sons, Samuel Custer and John W. III.
Miss Norma Gould. Holding a place all her own in Southern
California, as a classic interpretive dancer, Miss Norma Gould, direc-
tor of the Norma Gould School for the Science of Good Motion and
Art of Dancing, at Los Angeles, is almost equally well known in New
York, where she was a brilliant student, and all along the Pacific Coast,
where as teacher, author, adapter and interpreter, her graceful art has
brought pleasure to thousands.
Miss Gould was born at Los Angeles and is a daughter of M. A.
Gould, who came to this city many years ago and ever since has been
superintendent of the Capital Milling Company. While yet a school
girl, before her graduation from the Polytechnic High School, Miss
Gould displayed talents that caused her friends to predict a fair future
for her either in music, dancing or dramatic art, and in fact, she has
more than fulfilled every expectation. Perhaps no other dancer in the
West has done a greater amount of close and fine musical interpretations,
and this is due not only to a wide and exhaustive training but to natural
gifts and a sound knowledge of the art of dancing and a thorough edu-
cation in music. Miss Gould as an instructor possesses the power of
imparting her knowledge by word and example, equally well to children
and adults. Her dancing has been described as a combination of rhythmic
motion, significant gesture, music made visible, drama and the charm
of color. She has appeared as dancer and director of dancing in some
of the best known motion picture companies.
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Miss Gould has been established at Los Angeles for ten years. She
received her early training under Kiralfy, and is a graduate of the Uni-
trinian School of Personal Harmonizing and Interpretative Motion, New
York, The Norma Gould School for the Science of Good Motion and
Art of Dancing embraces all types : Classic, Interpretative, Poetic, Greek,
Oriental, Esthetic or Ballet, Toe, National, Folk, Stage and Ballroom
Dancing. The building is set in a garden at No. 1333 Georgia Street,
built on the site of one of the early day Spanish ranches, the studio
standing where once was a cornfield. It is attractively and harmoni-
ously furnished throughout and has ideal ventilation.
Each year Miss Gould presents at a theater in this city an exhibi-
tion assisted by her most efficient students, the offering at the Little
Theater, in June, 1919, being a pretentious offering outdoing all pre-
vious entertainment. It was called "The Golden Bough," a legend
of Brittany, and it was composed, staged and costumed by Miss Gould,
"who assumed the character of Sylvannus, the God of the Wood, and
was assisted by fifty dancers. Miss Gould is proposing a new enter-
prise, this being no less than to take a class of students yearly to the
heart of the Sierra Madre mountains for physical culture and the study
■of ancient forms of nature worship. She has been the inspirer of much
cultural endeavor in this section, and personally illustrates the benefits
that accrue from following the beautiful arts which she believes not
■only add charm and attractiveness to women, but health and happiness
as well.
I\Iiss Gould has recently been appointed on the faculty of the Uni-
versity of California, southern division of Berkeley, and has been in-
vited to give a course in educational dancing in the summer session at
the University of Southern California.
The recognition of her work by two of the most important educa-
tional institutions in the state has been the realization of one of her
•highest ideals, that of making her art a strong factor in education.
Cl.\re Woolwixe, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer of the firm of
Woolwme & Giesler in the Citizens National Bank Building, has prac-
ticed law steadily since 1911 with the exception of the period of a year
and a half when he served in the army, holding the rank of captain
when he was discharged.
Captain Wool wine was bom at Nashville, Tennessee, September 1,
1888, a son of Woods R. and Myra (Beverley) Woolwine. His thor-
ough and liberal education began in the public schools of Nashville, con-
tinued in the Wallace Preparatory School at Nashville, from -w^hich he
graduated in June, 1906, and in 1907 he came to California. He was a
student of Stanford University and the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, and graduated from the latter with the LL.B. degree in 1911.
Mr. Woolwine was admitted to the California bar at Los Angeles June
19, 1911. From January, 1915, to August, 1917, he served as assistant
district attorney of Los Angeles county. He resigned this office and
temporarily abandoned his private practice to enter the officers' train-
ing camp at the Presidio in August, 1917. He was commissioned a first
lieutenant in November, was appointed first lieutenant of the Eighth In-
fantry and served in that capacity from December until July, 1918. Pro-
moted to captain in July, 1918, he was assigned to duty with the Gen-
eral Staff at Washington in the following August, and from Septem-
ber to December 25, 1918, was with the general headquarters of the
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American Expeditionary Forces in France. He received his honorable
discharge from the General Stail" at Washington, January 10, 1919.
Captain Woolwine is vice president and director of the Woolwine
Metal Products Company, Incorporated, is a republican, a member of
the Masonic Order, a Methodist, and belongs to the California Club,
University Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Union League Club, City
Club and Midwick Country Club. He married, October 4, 1919, Miss
Lottia Clark at Ashland, Ohio.
\
H. L. GiESLER, junior member of the law firm of Woolwine &
Giesler in the Citizens National Bank Building, was born November 2,
1881, at Wilton, Iowa, and has lived in California since 1907. He is a
son of James L. and Mddred ( Hilbert) Giesler.
Mr. Giesler was educated in the public schools of Iowa, graduated
from Morgan Park Academy at Chicago in 1905, and for several sum-
mer terms attended the University of Michigan. He studied law in the
LIniversity of Iowa and the University of Southern California, and was
admitted to the California bar in January, 1910.
Universal City. Los Angeles itself is a name hardly more widely
impressed and advertised to the peoples of the world than Universal
City, which is a distinctive and unique unit in the Los Angeles district.
Universal City seven years ago existed only as a dream in the crea-
tive mind of Carl Laenirale. Today it is the greatest producing unit in
the world, embracing the largest space devoted exclusively to the pro-
duction of motion pictures.
The history of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, so far
as it relates to Los Angeles, begins with the arrival of its president, Carl
Laemmle, about seven years ago, and the opening of the first Universal
plant at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street on the pres-
ent site of the L-KO studios. For exterior scenes and other outdoor
locations space and ranches were rented as required.
Up to 1906 Carl Laemmle had been manager of a clothing busi-
ness in Wisconsin. He was born in Germany in 1867 and came to the
United States in 1884, gaining his early business experience as a clerk
in New York and Chicago. In 1906 he opened a moving picture theater
in Chicago and in the same year founded the Laemmle film service.
Then, in 1912, he brought about the amalgamation of leading independent
film concerns under the name Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
The rapid growth of Universal films necessitated the securing of
larger quarters. In his search for a location Mr. Laemmle observed the
tract of land on Lankershim Highway now known as Universal City.
Its natural beauty and the many opportunities for improvement appealed
to him and plans were immediately made for its acquisition.
In March, 1915, Universal City as it is today was dedicated to the
silent drama. On its vast acreage there are thirty stages, three immense
covered structures for the production of pictures in inclement weather,
streets that represent every quarter of the globe, an animal arena, a'
horse corral, a mammoth laboratory, luxurious projection theaters, cut-
ting rooms, executive offices, restaurants, a hospital and the various
mechanical and technical departments necessary to the conduct of this
gigantic enterprise.
Within the limits of Universal City are hundreds of acres of nat-
ural scenery, which, by artificial aid, has been transformed to repre-
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sent views of every character. In fact, there is no part of the world
that has not been duplicated at Universal City.
About sixteen hundred people, including actors, directors, artists,
clerks, mechanics and laborers, comprise the average working personnel
at Universal City. As many as thirty different producing units have
been at work within its environs at one time. The general offices of the
company are at 1600 Broadway, New York, where hundreds of people
are employed in the selling and distributing end of the enterprise.
Universal has its own branches in every important city in the United
States and Canada, and its own exchanges in every civiHzed country in
the world. To facilitate the release of Universal products on schedule
time the company also maintains an immense studio and laboratory at
Fort Lee, New Jersey, where several hundred people are employed.
Universal films, bearing the imprmt "Made at Universal City, Cali-
fornia," go to every habitable part of the globe, from the Argentine to
Iceland and from Thibet to the Congo.
Clarence M. Fuller since leaving college has been a worker in
the oil fields of California; was at one time an independent operator
and is now general manager of the Richfield Oil Company.
This company was incorporated November 29, 1911, by the owners
of the Los Angeles Oil Refining Company and the Kellogg Oil Company
as a small concern to handle the oil production of the Santa Fe Railway.
At the close of 1913 there was a general consolidation of the Los Angeles
Oil Refining Company and the Kellogg Oil Company and their affiliated
interests into a corporation known as the Richfield Oil Company. This
corporation has enjoyed a remarkable growth. The first plant was located
at Richfield, California, and later a large industry was established at
Orlando. The executive officers of the company are: F. R. Kellogg,
president ; C. W. Winter, vice-president ; G. J. Syminton, secretary ; J. R.
Jacobs, treasurer, and Clarence M. Fuller, general manager.
Mr. Fuller is a native of Lawrence, Kansas, son of Edgar R. and
Julia (Buckingham) Fuller. His father was a Congregational clergy-
man and the family lived in several different localities during the boy-
hood of Clarence M. He attended public schools and in 1898 came with
the family to Bakersfield, California, where he graduated from the high
school in 1903. For another year he attended Pomona College at Pomona,
California, and also spent two years in Hiram College and the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music at Oberlin, Ohio.
On returning to Cahfornia Mr. Fuller went to work at Bakersfield
with the firm of Barlow & Hill, oil producers. He did their general
office work until 1909, when he formed a partnership with Herbert
Taylor under the name Taylor & Fuller, oil producers. They dissolved
partnership two years later, and Mr. Fuller then came to Los Angeles
and became salesman for the National Petroleum Company. He was
later promoted to manager of the Road Oil and Asphalt Department, sub-
sequently became assistant general manager and then assistant to the
president, and from that work entered upon his present duties in 1915.
Mr. Fuller is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Qub, is a
republican and a member of the Congregational Church. June 17, 1907.
at Bakersfield, he married Miss Hazel Graney, daughter of W. S.
Graney, division superintendent of the Santa Fe Railroad. They have
one child, Winston, who was bom in 1911 and is now a student in the
public schools.
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Louis W. Myers, judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles
county, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Chicago twenty-
five years ago and has enjoyed an enviable station and rank in the law
in Los Angeles for over twenty years. He has also enjoyed a number
of honors outside his immediate profession.
Judge Myers was born at Lake Mills, Wisconsin, September 6, 1872,
son of Jesse Hall and Elizabeth (Wsecott) Myers. His father, who
was born in eastern Ohio in 1822, was a millwright by trade. On going
to Wisconsin he first settled in Washington County and in 1870 moved
to Lake Mills, where he had a farm and was also interested in milling in
Wisconsin and Iowa. He died in 1889. He married Elizabeth West-
cott in Washington County, Wisconsin, in 1861, and they had three chil-
dren : Myron Erskine, who died in 1887 ; Addie L., wife of Dr. Frank
Gordon, of Los Angeles, and Louis W.
Louis W. Myers graduated from high school in 1889, entered the
University of Wisconsin and took the literary course graduating B.L.
in 1893, and in 1895 received from the Law School of the University
of Wisconsin his degree LL. B. He at once went to Chicago and prac-
ticed law in that city with Jesse A. and Henry R. Baldwin, distinguished
Chicago lawyers. In 1897 he came to Los Angeles and was busied with
a large and important private practice vintil 1913. In* that year, when
the membership of the Superior Court was enlarged, he was appointed
an additional judge by the Governor of California, and in 1914 was
regularly elected to that office for the term of six years. He is re-
garded as one of the qualified judges in the local courts of Los An-
geles County.
Judge Myers is president of the University of Wisconsin Alumni
Association for Southern California ; is counsellor for Southern Cali-
fornia Alumni Association of the Phi Beta Kappa ; was president of the
University Club 1917-18, and president of the City Club 1916-17. He
is a member and until 1913 was a director and vice president of the
Municipal League of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Los Angeles
Bar Association and in politics a republican.
November 27, 1901, at Los Angeles, Judge Myers married Blanche
Brown, formerly of Saginaw, Michigan. They have two children, Alice
Elizabeth, a student in the Hollywood High School ; and John Wes-
cot, attending the Santa Monica Boulevard public school.
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John A. H. Kerr, a prominent member of the banking circle of Los
Angeles, has had a stimulating career, one in which he has projected
himself to success and responsibilities by an unbelievable amount of hard
work, constant alertness for opportunity, and a service that has been
altogether satisfactory.
Mr. Kerr, who is vice president and cashier of the Security Na-
tional Bank of Los Angeles, was born at Lucknow, Canada, July 17,
1877, son of John and Jane (Hossack) Kerr. His ancestors all came
originally from Scotland. His father, now deceased, was a merchant,
and the mother is still living. When Mr. Kerr was seven years old his
parents established a home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and there he
had the advantages of the grammar and high schools. By training and
early experience he is a lawyer, being a graduate with the degree LL. B.
from Lake Forest University Law School at Chicago. He entered upon
practice in that city, but after one year he gave up all that he had won
in Chicago and came to California to accompany a sister, whose health
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had failed. He located at Redlands, becoming connected with the Red-
lands Daily Facts. Three years later he entered banking as a bookkeeper
of the First National Bank of Redlands. He was promoted to assistant
cashier and left that position to become a national bank examiner. Dur-
ing the ten years he was official representative for the Federal Govern-
ment, Mr. Kerr acquired a large acquaintance with banks and bankers
of the Pacific Coast. He resigned from the service of the Government
upon his election to the office of cashier of the Security National Bank,
which irfetitution was subsequently merged with the Security Trust &
Savings Bank.
Mr. Kerr married Miss Frances Cope, daughter of George M. Cope,
a prominent banker of Helena, Montana. They have one daughter,
Katherine Berrilla. Mr. Kerr is a member of the Los Angeles Country
Club, California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Cham-
ber of Commerce, Masonic bodies of Los Angeles, including the thirty-
second degree of the Scottish Rite, National Foreign Trade Council, and
the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a republican.
Fred W. Howard. That the rose has reached its highest perfection
in form and beauty in Southern California is an obvious truth known
all over the world. But while nature has been so abundant in its gifts,
its work has also been supplemented by the skill and experience of men.
As a rose culturist and breeder, and creator of new and remarkable
types, the name of Fred W. Howard has a special distinction in Southern
California, and among floriculturists has an international reputation.
In 1918, when the ships of the ocean were busy carrying such hosts
of determined men and such cargoes of destructive material to the shores
of France, there was also sent from Los Angeles some roses from the
Howard gardens. The following is from a Paris newspaper of recent
date : "To the California rose has been awarded the gold medal, the
Grand Prix of the French Rose world. The annual rose competition
took place Sunday as usual in the city of Paris rose gardens at Baga-
telle, a chateau in the Bois de Bologne which formerly belonged to Sir
Richard Wallace, by whom it was bequeathed to the city he loved so
well. The Bagatelle Rose Competition is open to all growers of the
allied countries and the medals awarded for the best new rose of the
year. Sunday's winner, which is produced near Los Angeles, was de-
veloped from the Lion rose and one bearing the name of a well-known
actress of the Comedie Francaise, J\Ime. Segoud Weber."
Fred W. Howard was born in Los Angeles, September 1, 1873.
His father. Dr. Fred P. Howard, a native of Devonshire, England, was
educated in England and practiced medicine there before coming to
America. He was also in the British army service. He finally settled
at Los Angeles, and practiced in that city for a number of years. Dr.
Howard married Caroline Huber of Louisville, Kentucky.
The great business in seeds, plant and flower culture of Howard
Brothers has been in existence for twenty-five years. It is an incor-
porated company, the principals being three brothers, O. W., A. P. and
Fred W. Howard. Fred W. is president of the company. This is the
largest house of its kind in Los Angeles. They specialize in choice
flower seeds, and have a plant covering ninety-five acres at Montebello
and San Fernando Valley and at Rivera. Mr. Howard has produced
many striking varieties of plants and roses, and at many other times be-
sides the one just noted his plant breeding eft'orts have won international
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recognition. He has also produced a new vellow rose, a golden yellow,
called the Mrs. F. K. Rindge.
Mr. Howard married, in 1908, Miss Minnie P. Jones of Ventura.
He is a republican voter and a member of the Sierra Madre Club.
Fk.\nk Simpson. The early experiences of Frank Simpson, now a
retired Los Angeles business man, had an important bearing upon the
early history of the fruit industry of California, particularly as related
to the introduction of California oranges to the larger markets of the
world. Mr. Simpson for many years was a large exporter of California
products to Eastern and European markets, and importer from Mexico,
Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. He also has an interesting record
of public service in various positions requiring counsel and effort to pro-
mote the welfare of broad public undertakings.
Mr. Simpson was born at Yonkers, New York, August 9, 1855, son
of Joseph and Rosetta (Ferris) Simpson. He graduated from high
school at the age of seventeen, and acquired his early business traming
in New York City, 1873-77, as cashier and bookkeeper in the wholesale
import and export dry goods business. He has been a resident of Cali-
fornia over forty years. Coming here in 1878, he was cashier and man-
ager at San Francisco for L. G. Sresovich & Company, exporters and im-
porters of California and tropical fruits, and who also were the first and
largest orange shippers of California. While so connected Mr. Simpson
gained his first experience in sending this typical California product to
the world markets. His connection with that branch of the business
made it necessary for him to spend a large portion of his time in Los
Angeles. In 1880 he established a branch house in Honolulu, and re-
mained there a year. Thereafter he was in San Francisco, with fre-
quent visits to Los Angeles, until 1883. when he moved to Los Angeles
permanently.
About that time he became vice president and manager of the Ger-
main Fruit Company of Los Angeles, and was one of the executive
officials of that well-known organization until 1891, when he withdrew
and started the Simpson-Montgomery Company. Mr. Simpson was
president of the corporation, and in 1894 bought out the other int-erests,
changing the name to the Frank Simpson Fruit Company. He continued
this business until 1911, when he sold out, and has since been practically
retired. During this time, in 1907-8 he also formed the Los Angeles
Market Company and erected the Ninth Street Public Market.
For many years Mr. Simjjson was president of the Los Angeles
Market Company and president of the Los Angeles Wholesalers' Board
of Trade, was president of the Los Angeles Credit Men's Association,
and president of the Municipal League. He is also a former director of
the Chamber of Commerce and director of the Jobbers' Association and
of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association. He was one of the
committee of fifteen forming the Consolidation Commission of 1909,
under whose guidance Los Angeles, San Pedro and Wilmington became
the Seaport City of Los Angeles, is a director and vice president of the
Sixth District Agricultural Association, appointed in 1918 by Governor
Stephens, is also a director of the Liberty Fair and a Board of Public
Service Commissioner of the city of Los Angeles, appointed by former
Mayor Woodman. He served in Company F, Second Regiment, Na-
tional Guard, State of California, in 1879.
His part during the World war was that of a dollar-a-year man.
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serving under Herbert Hoover in food conservation as a director of the
wheat division of Los Angeles and vicinity. Mr. Simpson is a member
of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Chamber of Com-
merce, Automobile Club of Southern California, Municipal League, and
in politics is a republican. His office is in Room 71L Brockman Building,
and his residence is at 670 Wilshire Place.
In 1882, at Los Angeles, he married Lou Etta James. Their son,
Frank Simpson Jr., thirty-four years of age, received his education at
the Mount Tamalpais Military Academy and the University of California,
and later became treasurer of the Frank Simpson Fruit Company. Since
1915 aviation has absorbed all his time and energies. His early training
was acquired under Glenn Martin, and he became the representative of
the Aero Club of America in Southern California. In 1916 he entered
the United States Naval Air Service and served successively as officer
in charge of advanced flying at Pensacola. officer in charge of the flight
school at San Diego, commanding officer of the naval air station at Key
West, and aviation aide for the Western Division. He retired from
active service in 1920 with the rank of lieutenant commander. Frank
Simpson Jr. is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, the University
Club, San Gabriel Country Club, the Olympic Club and the Family Club
of San Francisco, and the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City.
William Wallace Reid has all his home affections anchored and
centered at Hollywood, and while his name and work as an artist have
gone abroad and for years been a vital feature on the movie screen, he
would be entirely willing to have Southern California copyright him as
one of its most loyal citizens.
He was born April 15, 1891, at St. Louis, Missouri. He is the son
of the popular dramatic writer Hal Reid, who has written some one
hundred twenty-seven popular plays in his time. William Wallace after
a year at the New Jersey Military Academy at Freehold and at the
age of thirteen began and completed a four-year preparatory course at
Perkiomen Seminary at Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. This was followed
by the work of the freshman year at Lafayette College. He had intended
to enter Princeton, but the outcome of an argument between his father
and himself regarding what course he should take ended in his abrupt
departure for Wyoming, where he had his "roughing" experiences, work-
ing on a ranch, as assistant manager of a tourist hotel, and finally with a
surveying party on the Shoshone Dam.
He was back in New York at the age of eighteen, and then fol-
lowed a period of reporting for the Newark Morning Star. About that
time he took charge of a sketch of his father's, which had been boiled
down from one of his plays. The end of the season found Mr. Reid
in Chicago, where he resumed newspaper work.
Largely through his ability as a swimmer at this time he secured a
position with the old Selig Company. Mr. Reid thinks that the domi-
nating motive leading him into the moving picture field was curiosity.
In this his initial work in the picture business he remained through
the balance of the summer and fall of 1911 as character man. While
Mr. Reid is not readily responsive to all the questions an interviewer put
to him, he made the following concession concerning this chapter of his
career: "The leading man always had to have curly hair, so that in
the nine months I worked for them I only played with a straight face
once ; the rest of the time I was adorned with whiskers of many shades."
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In November of that year Mr. Reid returned to New York and
accepted the post of assistant editor of the Motor Magazine, one of the
Hearst publications. His previous plunge into filmdom had been merely
an adventure into "wonderland" for him. While assistant editor he and
his father took a little studio in the old part of New York on Lower
Fifth Avenue, where they collaborated a play called "Tlie Confession."
For his share the son received the motion picture rights and sold them
to the Vitagraph for a lump sum, including himself in the bargain at
"twenty dollars per," admitted Mr. Reid.
That was his real start in a picture career, and from the view-
point of the present he regards his environment as "a sort of cradle of
stars." "Norma Talmadge, Edith Storey, Carlyle Blackwell, Mabel Nor-
mand, Lillian Walker all started there, while Constance Talmadge, in
pigtails and short skirts, used to come visit sister Norma. Anita Stewart
was one of our children in the cradle. We all started together."
Mr. Reid played his first leads at that time, though his ambition
of course was solely directed to the producing end of the game. With
that in view he went through every branch of the business, including
camera work projection, scenario writing, in fact everything but develop-
ing and printing.
From the Vitagraph he went with the Reliance and finally came to
California with the Universal, a firm he left after ten weeks to obtain
his first position directing at the American Film Company at Santa
Barbara. Six months later he returned to the Universal, directing a
company there for over a year. By that time he was being asked to
impart his own individuality to the screen, and did so, directing and
playing his own leads.
It was during this year that Mr. Reid married his leading lady,
Miss Dorothy Davenport. After that he had a year's training with Griffith
and five years ago madp his last final move to the Lasky Corporation
Famous Players, playing with Geraldine Farrar in her first six produc-
tions.
Mr. Reid feels that a much better asset than stardom has now come
to him in William Wallace, Jr., three years old June 18, 1920. The
writer of this little sketch was privileged to enter the Reid home, and
regards Mr. Reid's pride in his sturdy little son as most pardonable.
Much might be written of Mrs. Reid's personal charm and accomplish-
ments, though perhaps the biggest and best thing that can be said of
her is that she gave up her career to be just a wife and mother. The
whole atmosphere of the home fairly radiates wholesomeness, rest, con-
tentment.
Mr. Reid's two hobbies are golf and music. Many hours are spent
on the links, and he is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club,
the Brentwood Country Club, the San Gabriel Country Club and Holly-
wood Country Club. He is a member of the Elks Lodge. He was
christened and confirmed in the Episcopal High Church of England.
Music is a common taste and avocation of Mr. and Mrs. Reid. Their
music room is filled with nearly every conceivable instrument, and Mr.
Reid acknowledges a playing acquaintance with all. Furthermore he
was modestly persuaded to admit that he has his own orchestra, "for
our own amusement and to use upon solicitation for various worthy
charities only," of which he is director.
During the war Mr. and Mrs. Reid were much in the service for
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Uncle Sam, giving every spare moment and selling at auction everything
from prize puppies to full grown mules to help the various war charities.
The Reids for a year or so past have been busily planning and super-
vising the erection of a very beautiful home in the Spanish style of
architecture between Sunset Boulevard and De Longpre. They are en-
thusiastic Californians, especially since they have a native son in the
family, and Los Angeles is proud to claim permanently one of the most
popular and, need we say, best loved photo players.
Joseph Mesmer, a resident of Los Angeles for over sixty years,
has many things besides a successful business record to his credit. For
years he has been one of an influential though not numerous group of
citizens who have had a real sense of their responsibilities to the coming
years and the generations who must complete and enlarge upon the work
done by this and preceding generations.
Mr. Mesmer is the active head of the St. Louis Fire Brick and
Clay Company, manufacturers of high-grade fire brick and fire clay
products, now so favorably known through the entire West and the
Orient. Mr. Mesmer was born in Tippecanoe City, Aliami County, Ohio,
November 3, 1855. He was not quite four years of age when his parents,
Louis and Catherine (Forst) Mesmer, came to Los Angeles. By steamer
they made the journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama to San Fran-
cisco, arriving in that city in June, 1859. After a stay of three months,
they embarked on a steamer for Los Angeles. Steamships between Los
Angeles and San Francisco then made bi-monthly trips. It was a three
days' voyage down the coast to San Pedro. The family was transferred
from, steamer to a tugboat and was landed at Wilmington, and a stage
coach carried them to Los Angeles. They arrived here in September,
and put up at the Lafayette Hotel, then conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Everhardt. Mrs. Everhardt after the death of her husband became the
wife of John Lang, who passed away two years ago.
Joseph Mesmer acquired his primary education in the public schools
of Los Angeles, but was sent abroad to complete his training in the
college of Strassbourg, France. On returning home he became a mer-
chant and in 1878 established "The Queen" Shoe Store in Los .Angeles.
He conducted a large and prosperous business in that line for twenty-
eight years, selling out in 1906, and then spent over a year with his
familv traveling abroad. He established the first one-price store west of
the Missouri River.
Soon after his return to Los Angeles Mr. Mesmer joined his per-
sonal resources and talents to the St. Louis Fire Brick and Clay Com-
pany, which today by his business ability has been put in the front rank
of the fire clay manufacturers of the state.
Mr. Mesmer for years has been a foremost advocate of development
work in Southern California, particularly in Los Angeles city and county.
Probably no citizen has been more liberal of his time and study in behalf
of various plans and movements to beautify and improve the cit)-. He
assisted in maintaining the annual feature of the Sixth District Agri-
cultural and Industrial Fair and was one of the thirty annual guarantors
to make up the deficit. For many years he contributed to the enter-
tainment of every committee of the Legislature visiting Southern Cali-
fornia, including those for the selection of the Normal School site, the
Whittier Reform School site, and the Patton Insane Asylum site. His
financial and personal aid has been given to the great work of advertis-
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ing to the world the chmate of Southern CaHiornia, the resourcefuhiess
of its soil, and the opportunities of the homeseeker and industrious
farmer in this region. No one could take greater personal satisfaction
in seeing Los Angeles develop as a home city of high-class citizenship,
beautiful homes and churches and parks, school advantages, superior
transportation facilities both steam and electric, well regulated fire and
police systems. Mr. Mesmer has contributed liberally toward the build-
ing of churches regardless of denominations, and also to the practical
work of charity and charitable institutions. He was on the subscription
committee which raised thirty-two thousand dollars for the purchase of
the lot on which the Chamber of Commerce Building now stands, and
was one of the large individual contributors to that fund. Through his
efiforts also funds were raised by which a block of land was purchased
and then donated outright to the United States government for postoffice
and court house. To Mr. Mesmer has been awarded the warrant and
certificate of acceptance by the United States government of this site,
on which stands the handsome Federal Building, six stories of granite
and stone construction, built at a cost of over a million dollars.
Mr. Mesmer was the leading spirit of the property owners' com-
mittee which secured the block bounded by Main, Temple, Spring and
Market streets known as the Temple Block as a proposed site for the
City Hall. The acceptance by Mayor and Common Council had been
secured upon the condition that property owners contribute a hundred
twenty-five thousand dollars toward the purchase price of five hundred
thousand dollars asked by the owners of the Temple Block site. This
sum has been subscribed and the city is expected to begin the building
of the City Hall at an early date.
Mr. Mesmer served one term as park commissioner, was president
of the North Los Angeles Development Company and other improve-
ment societies for more than twenty-eight years continuously, and was
twice a member of the Freeholders' Charter Commission to frame new
charters for the city. He was largely responsible for giving the city a
central purchasing agency, by which unprecedented economies have been
introduced in the purchasing of supplies, amounting at times to dis-
counts of as high as forty per cent. The index of his entire career in
Los Angeles has been one of public spirit and public service.
Certainly no one has done more to educate and secure public consent
to many plans for the broadening and beautifying of the city's thorough-
fares. Through his efforts Los Angeles street was cut through a hun-
dred feet in width from Arcadia to Alameda. Similarly he tried to secure
the opening and widening of the same street to a hundred feet in width
from First street south to Jefl:erson street, then the southern limits of
the city, but was balked in this by the opposition of two prominent
property owners. Since then the street has been widened to seventy
feet from Third street to Fifth street, and the expense of the proceed-
ings for these two blocks alone cost more than the entire opening and
widening to the hundred-foot width would have cost when Mr. Mesmer
first petitioned for the improvement.
Largely through his efiforts Third street was opened and widened to
eighty feet from Los Angeles to Omar avenue ; Fourth street to eighty
feet from San Pedro to Omar ; Boyd street to sixty feet from San Pedro
to Omar; First street west from Hill street. Hill street from First street
to Second street, San Pedro to eighty feet width from Fifth street north
to Aliso street : Macy opened and widened to eighty feet from Alameda
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east to the Los Angeles River. He was also one of the prime movers
in the opening and widening of Central avenue to one hundred feet in
width from Third street south to the city limits ; the widening of Mission
boulevard from sixty to one hundred feet width from Macy north and
east to the city limits ; the widening of Lincoln Park avenue from sixty
to eighty feet from Downey avenue south to Mission boulevard; the
opening and widening of Thomas street from thirty to sixty feet width
from Barbee south to Mission boulevard. On his initiative petitions
were circulated asking for the proceedings to be commenced and the
work prosecuted for the opening and widening of Sunset boulevard a
hundred feet wide from Marmion Way to the Plasa, now an accomplished
fact.
Some years ago Mr. Mesmer broke the iron clad monopoly hitherto
exercised by the Alcatraz Paving Company on all asphalt street paving,
thus reducing the cost of that improvement nearly one-half. Mr. Mesmer
has always expressed a willingness to give time and money to promote
the "City Beautiful" movement. He believes that no time is so good as
the present, and that any work that now costs hundreds of dollars will
in later years involve similar thousands to properly carry it out. The
ambitious program which he has considered again and again advocated
proposing the widening to a hundred twenty feet of Main, Olive, Grand
avenue, Hoover, Fifth, Ninth, Pico, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, San
Pedro, Central avenue, Soto and Griffin avenue, with incidental improve-
ment of parkways and tree banks. First street should be widened to
one hundred forty feet from the eastern to the western limits of the city
and to have four tracks of car lines for travel, the two inside tracks to
be given over to express service, and the two outside tracks for local
travel. Mr. Mesmer reasons that in case of any great conflagration any
of these wide streets would prove a powerful and probably effective fire
break.
Mr. Mesmer was chairman of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Committee appointed to investigate the possibilities of the Owens River
as a source of pure water supply, this investigation proving the prelim-
inary of the greatest single construction enterprise for Los Angeles.
The crowning feature of his plans for a great and beautiful city
proposes the improvement of the Los Angeles River bed. No other work,
declares Mr. Mesmer, "could be projected that would have such beneficial
results and mean so much to the city. It would transform the most un-
sightly feature of Los Angeles into a beautiful parkway, chain of lakes
and esplanades such as would charm every beholder by the picture of a
park six miles long in the center of the city. It would mean facilities
immediately at hand for outing and recreation, walking over the serpen-
tine paths amid shady trees and flowers, with facilities for boating and
sailing in the six lakes each three thousand feet long, while the rivei bed
and sides would be lined solidly with concrete and the parapet sidewalks
above the surface level would be molded in artistic design, on the to^/ of
which would stand at every thirty feet a beautiful electrically lighted
gondolier." Mr. Mesmer firmly believes that Bunker Hill should be
removed and brought down to grade level, and that in this territory a
very high-class retail and shopping center could be developed through the
widening and opening of such thoroughfares as Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth streets, leading from the high-class home section lying
to the west and Hollywood sections.
Mr. Mesmer also advocates the acquisition of several acres of land
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lying- near and adjoining west of New High street from Republic street
north to the proposed opening and continuation of Sunset boulevard.
That land, together with the site of the high school and city cemetery,
could be converted into an ideal park, to be known by the historical
name of Fort Moore, the high school building, cemetery grounds and
miniature fort forming attractive settings to the landscape. Fort Moore
Hill is sometimes called Buena Vista Hill, and would lend itself to
beautiful decorative floral terraces.
Mr. Mesmer is a member of the Los Angeles County Pioneer So-
ciety, the California Club, a life member of St. Vincent de Paul Society
and is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of Columbus and the Catholic
Knights of America. April 22, 1879, he married Miss Rose Elizabeth
Bushard of Los Angeles. Six children were born to their union : Louis
Francis, Marie Josephine Perier, Clarence Woodman, Junietta Lucille,
Beatrice Evalynne and Aloysius Joseph Mesmer. His son Louis was
commissioned captain in the Engineer Corps, and his son Aloysius was
ensign, doing duty in the late great war.
Miss Edna Purviance. A casual social introduction to Charles
Chaplin is also the introduction of Miss Edna Purviance to the history
of the movie stage. The happy accident occurred in 1915. The famous
comedian asked her "if she would like to try." Though diffident and
rather distrustful of her own ability, she was more than delighted to
make the effort.
The trial proved one of those instantaneous successes. Ever since
her fame has been growing, and her most fortunate part and the one she
enjoys most is playing the opposite to Charles Chaplin. Her first picture
was "His Night Out." She has played in many more, the most popular
perhaps being "The Adventurer," "Shoulder Arms," "Easy Street," "A
Dog's Life" and "Sunnyside."
Miss Purviance says she loves the work, particularly her part with
Mr. Chaplin, since he directs his own pictures and thus eliminates the
presence of a director in front. Miss Purviance testifies that Chaplin
is constantly improvising little tricks so popular with the public as he
goes along.
Miss Purviance was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada. She grew
up among the lovely hills of that state, always had a horse and dogs,
and was extremely fond of them as a child, preferring them to dolls, with
which she never cared to play. Her life developed as she rode all day
among the hills on her horse, enjoying the bigness of outdoors and the
poetry of a magnificent environment. Then, too, she was always getting
hurt, but never sufficient to discourage her from riding and adventuring
in the open.
John Llewellyn. A notable figure was removed from Los An-
geles industrial circles by the death of John Llewellyn in April, 1919.
Mr. Llewellyn was a member of a family of prominent ironmasters, the
industrv having been an intimate part of the family history for several
generations in Wales. John Llewellyn was associated with his brothers,
Reece, William and David, in the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles,
and was vice president of that corporation at the time of his death.
He was born in Wales, May 27, 1873, son of David and Hannah
(Janes) Llewellyn. His father was an expert iron worker and when
John was eleven years of age brought his family to America and estab-
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lished his home in San Francisco, where he had an iron foundry. In
1888 the mother brought her children to Los Angeles, where John
Llewell.vn finished his education under private tutors. He became asso-
ciated with his brothers in founding the iron works, and in 1892 gradu-
ated from the Los Angeles Business College. For over a quarter of a
century he was active in the Llewellyn Iron Works, serving in various
capacities, and a few years ago was promoted from assistant secretary
to vice president. While experienced in all branches of the business,
he was especially regarded as an expert in elevator construction and
installation, an important feature of the business. After the fire and
earthciuake in San Francisco he installed the first elevator constructed
in a building subsequent to that disaster. He supervised the installation
of elevators in most of the large buildings at Los Angeles, including the
Alexandria Hotel and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. During the great
war he spent all his energies toward getting government contracts han-
dled by his company completed in record time, and had gone East in the
best of health in connection with some business of the company in con-
nection with the Shipping Board, and while in New York his death
occurred after a minor operation.
A master of the technique of the iron industry, John Llewellyn also
excelled in the ability to work with and lead men, and time and again
succeeded in carrying out important contracts because he was able to
adjust labor difficulties. This feature of his character was testified to
by the employes of the Llewellyn Iron Works after his death, who in a
formal tribute said: "In life and through every trial and in the years of
our association he has been to us a man and a companion, one of us
and part of us, and in his death we feel the loss of a true friend; and his
passing is to each of us a personal loss which can not be compensated
and will not be forgotten."
"Mr. Llewellyn was unmarried and lived with his mother at 7 Berke-
ley Scjuare, enjoying the home life with his brothers, Reece and William.
He was also survived by a sister, Mrs. John Miiner. John Llewellyn
was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was a member of
the California, Jonathan, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country
Clubs.
Willis Douglas Longvear. A vice-president of the Security Trust
& Savings Bank, and prominent in the civic and business affairs of the
city, as well as in the banking circles of the state, Mr. Longvear ranks
among the bankers of longest experience in Los Angeles. For more than
thirtv years he has been connected with the Security Bank, which when
he first entered its employment occupied a single small room on South
Main Street.
On his father's side Mr. Longyear came of Holland stock, his grand-
parents coming to Michigan from New York, where they had emigrated
from across the Atlantic. His maternal grandfather, Eli Douglas, was
born in Vermont in 1810, coming of Scotch ancestry. He emigrated to
Michigan in the early thirties, when this was the ultimate frontier of
the United States, and developed a home in the wilderness. His daughter,
Maria Douglas, married Moses Longyear, and from this combination of
sturdy, thrifty, courageous, pioneer stocks came the future banker, bom
at Grass Lake, Jackson County, July 2, 1863.
Moses Longyear, his father, prospered as a merchant and later as
a farmer. At the time of his death he was reputed the largest sheep
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owner in southern Michigan. He was a pioneer in efficient, scientific
farming, a promoter of pure bred cattle, county supervisor and super-
intendent of the poor at the time of his death. He died when "W. D."
was nine years old, and the boy soon afterward went to live with his
grandfather, Eli Douglas, at Kalamazoo, where he received his education
in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he became registry clerk
in the Kalamazoo postoffice, but in 1884 took up banking as a clerk in
the Kalamazoo National Bank, where he remained five years, getting a
thorough training in all departments.
In 1889, the year the Security Bank was established, young Long-
year left Kalamazoo for Los Angeles, and the next year found him
behind the one teller's window of the little institution, and, with the
cashier, was practically the entire clerical force. But the bank grew
and Longyear grew with it, continuing to have in charge the practical
details of the internal management. In 1893 he was assistant cashier,
in 1895 he became cashier and secretary and in 1917 was elected a vice-
president of the bank, which had by that time grown to be the largest
financial institution in the Southwest.
Identified with the California Bankers Association for several years,
Mr. Longyear became president in the summer of 1918, and had the
distinguished honor of being its war president, guiding its work during
most of the liberty loans and other activities to which all the energies
and resources of the California banks were summoned. In 1919 he
was chosen to- represent the California Bankers upon the Executive
Council of the American Bankers Association for term of three years.
Besides banking, Mr. Longyear has been steadily identified with the
growth and development of Los Angeles and Southern California. Al-
ways interested in agriculture, he was prominent in the development
of the San Fernando Valley. With his son Douglas he has developed
and stocked with a fine herd of pure blood Hereford cattle one of the
largest ranches in the Owens River Valley : is a stockholder and director
in successful manufacturing and real estate holding companies.
February 8, 1893, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Ida Agatha
Mackay, whose father. Captain A. F. Mackay, a building contractor,
erected some of the most substantial buildings in the early development
of Los Angeles. The Longy^ear home was one of the first built upon
Wilshire Boulevard west of Vermont Avenue, when that beautiful
thoroughfare was first laid out. Mr. and Mrs. Longyear have two chil-
dren, Douglas M. and Gwendolyn C.
Mr. Longyear is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Al Malakaih
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of the California Club,
the Crags Country Club and the Los Angeles Country Club.
Berth,\ Lovejov Cable. Perhaps no woman in public life in Cali-
fornia is more sincerely admired or more thoroughly trusted than Mrs.
Bertha Lovejoy Cable, who is president of the California Federation of
Women's Clubs. She fills this, as she has other high offices, with in-
telligence, poise and good judgment, while her particularly engaging per-
sonality but adds to her general efficiency. Destiny has placed her hap-
pily. Coming of noted ancestry, with early intellectual environment and
social advantages, ere she reached maturity she developed a questioning
interest in progress and reforms that only mildly disturbed many of her
friends and associates. She read intelligently, studied conscientiously,
traveled, investigated and exchanged views with other earnest women.
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Thus prepared, she has fulfilled the duties of high position well. She
is not only an honored and influential club woman, but is also a happy
wife and mother and a charming hostess.
Bertha Lovejoy was born in Iowa. Her parents were John EUing-
wood and Joanna (McBeath) Lovejoy, her father being of English
extraction and a native of Maine, and her mother of Canadian birth
and Scotch ancestry. The name Lovejoy belongs to the nation's history.
The father of Mrs. Cable was a journalist and a diplomat, and during
the administration of President Lincoln he served as United States consul
to Peru. It was his uncle, Elijah P. Lovejoy, who was killed by a mob
at Alton, Illinois, in 1837, because he persisted in declaring his anti-
slavery sentiments in his newspaper. Owen Lovejoy, United States
senator during President Lincoln's administration, was also a man of
courage and conviction, and the page of his life reflects distinction on his
time and country.
Miss Lovejoy became the wife of Herbert A. Cable, deputy state
labor commissioner of California. They have two sons, Arthur Lovejoy
and John R., aged respectively twenty and thirteen years. The elder son
entered the National Army as a volunteer in September, 1917, accom-
■ panied the American Expeditionary Forces to Europe and was in
France, a sergeant at General Headquarters. The beautiful family home
is at 1906 West Forty-second Place, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Cable was president of the Averill Study Club for two years,
1912-1914; president of the Los Angeles District Federa.tion of Women's
Clubs fci- two years, 1914-1916; president of the Women's Legislative
Council of California, 1916-1917 ; president of the California Federa-
tion of Women's Clubs, 1917-1919; appointed a member of the State
Council of Defense by Governor Stephens, one of three women members,
in May, 1917, and in the same month vra.s elected chairman of the
Women's Committee of Councils of National and State Defense.
Mrs. M. Hennion Robinson (Blanche Williams). Probably
no artist meets more of the difficult tests of true musicianship than the
accompanist. Of musicians there is a legion and host, but real accom-
panists are comparatively rare. It is in this difficult field of music that
Mrs. M. Hennion Robinson of Los Angeles has achieved her greatest
reputation, though in recent years her work as a composer has attracted
notice and encouragement from those competent to judge, and during
1920 she abandoned some of her professional engagements in order to be
in New York to look after her compositions.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Williams and was born
in Emporia, Kansas, attended public school in that city and also the
Kansas State Normal. Her grandfather was a singing master, and all
her family were musical. Older members of the family say that when
she was a child of three years she would pick out airs on the piano. At
the age of five she started regular work on the piano at the Chase Con-
servatory at Emporia.
At the age of nine her family moved to Chicago, where she was
fortunate in having eight years of scholarship with W. C. E. Seeboeck,
a pupil of Rubenstein. Soon after she began accepting engagements in
concert work, and under the management of Mr. Pardee and Miss Weber
toured the Middle West in recital as concert pianist. In 1901 her
father's business called him to California, and the family moved to Los
Angeles.
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For nearly three years after coming to Los Angeles Mrs. Robinson
did concert work and was soloist on many notable programs. Since then
she has specialized exclusively in accompaniment. She has played for
such well-known artists as George Hamlin, Jeannie Jornelli, Marcella
Craft, Maggie Teyte and Pavlowa, Franz Wilcez and Hugo Herrman,
besides many local singers. For nine years she was the accompanist
for the Woman's Lyric Club, and for five years of the Ellis Club, and
during the past two years has found time to do much composition.
Mrs. Robinson is a pupil in composition of Frederick Stephenson.
Her "The Woman at Home," a chorus for women's voices, has been
sung with much success by the Lyric Club. Among her better known
compositions are "Songs of You," "The Mystic Hour," "Youth," "Fair-
ies," "Butterflies," "The Dawn of Dawns," and a chorus for men's voices,
"A Song for Heroes." She is kept busy under the management of Mr.
Behymer in concert work, and also finds time to play for the Ebell Club,
the Friday Morning Club, the Gamut Club, and for many of the leading
artists who come to Los Angeles.
In 1904 she was married, and has a daughter, Dorothy, now thir-
teen years of age, who has shown considerable talent both at the piano
and in interpretive dancing. Mrs. Robinson's season is from October to
June, and her program is always full. She is a member of the Dominant
Club and one of its charter members.
Robert Marsh. Among Los Angeles business men Robert Marsh
has been distinguished by his ability to plan and carry out exceptionally
large undertakings, many of them along new and untried lines and in
new fields. In the upbuilding and extension of modern Los Angeles
within the last twenty years he shares high and conspicuous credit.
Mr. Marsh has been a resident of Southern California since child-
hood, but was born at Charleston, Illinois, January 20, 1874, son of
Joseph E. and Martha J. (Atwood) Marsh. His parents came to Los
Angeles a few years later, living at San Diego from 1888 to 1891, and
then re-establishing their home in Los Angeles. Robert Marsh acquired
his first schooling at Little Rock, Arkansas, and afterwards attended
school in Los Angeles and San Diego. He was impatient to get into a
business career, and in 1892 left high school before graduating. The
following seven or eight years were largely a matter of apprenticeship,
waiting, discipline and development. For four years he was employed
in a local book store, and for about two years by a men's furnishing
house. In 1898 Mr. Marsh went to New Orleans and was identified
with the wholesale and retail coal business nearly two years. He re-
turned to Los Angeles late in 1899, and early in the following year went
into the real estate business. At the very outset he considered big plans
and big undertakings, and the scale of his operations is well known to all
real estate men in Southern California. His chief interest probably has
been in developing suburban properties, constituting part of the greater
Los Angeles. Several magnificent resident districts in and around Los
Angeles owe their primary development to Mr. Marsh. Among these
may be mentioned Country Club Park, Western Heights, Westchester
Place, Country Club Terrace, Arlington Heights Terrace and Mt. Wash-
ington.
Mr. Marsh is in business under the name of Robert Marsh & Com-
pany. His well-known energy and judgment have again and again been
called into service for the larger interest of the city. In 1908 he became
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a member of the Chamber of Commerce committee to solve the difficult
problem of securing a Union Depot. He was one of the leaders in the
campaign for the annexation of San Pedro, giving Los Angeles its harbor
frontage and connection with the ocean. Mr. Marsh has served as vice
president of the Los Angeles Realty Board, and is also a member of the
Jonathan Club, California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles
Countr}- Club. Crags Country Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club,
Bolsa Chico Gun Club, is a Knight .Templar Mason and Shriner and a
member of the Elks.
April 12, 1898, at Alhambra, California, Mr. Marsh married Miss
Cecile Lothrop. They have two children, Florence L. and Martha J.
Francis M. Pottenger. IMedical men everywhere recognize Dr.
Pottenger as a physician of real eminence. His great work has been
as a student and investigator of diseases of the chest, and he is one
of the most skillful physicians in the country in combating tuberculosis.
Dr. Pottenger's special interest in the subject of tuberculosis is
more than professional. It was for the purpose of improving the con-
dition of his tuberculous wife that he came to California twenty-five years
ago, and from the time of her death a few years later he has regarded
the world-wide fight against tuberculosis as peculiarly his own life work.
Dr. Pottenger was born at Sater, Ohio, September 27, 1869, son
of Thomas and Hannah Ellen ( Sater) Pottenger. He spent his early
life on a farm, attended local schools and acquired his collegiate educa-
tion ac Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. He was graduated with
the degree Ph. B. in 1892, and that institution has since taken note of his
career and honored him with the degree A. M. in 1907 and LL. D. in
1909. In 1892-3 he was a student in the Medical College of Ohio and
in 1894 graduated with the highest honors from the Cincinnati College
of Medicine and Surgery. Two days after his graduation he married
and he and his bride went to Europe, where he did post-graduate work
in the leading hospitals, especially at Vienna. He has since been abroad
three times, and also did post-graduate study in New York in 1900. For
a time he practiced at Norwood, Ohio, and was assistant to Dr. Charles
A. L. Reed, a noted physician and surgeon, and was also assistant to
the Chair of Surger}' in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Pottenger gave up these bright prospects in the east to bring
his wife to California in 1895, and located at jNIonrovia. Later he took
Mrs. Pottenger back to her home near Dayton, where in spite of all
care she died in 1898. Dr. Pottenger as a result of his first associations
with the medical profession had decided to specialize- in diseases of
children and obstetrics.
After the death of his wife he returned to Monrovia, California, and
since 1901 has also had offices in Los Angeles. He was the first ethical
physician on the Pacific Coast to specialize in tuberculosis. In 1903 he
established the famous Pottenger Sanatorium for diseases of the lungs
and throat, of which he is president and medical director. Because
of the distinguished abilities of its head this is probably the foremost
institution of its kind in California. By successive additions and growth
it now has accommodations for one hundred and twenty-five patients.
Dr. Pottenger is not a faddist, but aims to treat tuberculosis by all means
that will aid in cure.
Outside of his private practice and his sanatorium Dr. Pottenger
has neglected no avenue through which his influence might be used for'
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the good of his profession and humanity. From 1905 to 1909 he was
professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Southern California,
and from 1914 was professor of Diseases of the Chest at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of the same institution. He is the founder
and for three years was president of the Southern California Anti-
Tuberculosis League. In 1906-08 he was chief of helping station of
Southern California Tuberculosis League. He is a member and served
as president in 1906-07 of the Los Angeles County Medical Association,
was president in 1912-13 of the Southern California Medical Society,
is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy
of Medicine, is a member and was president in 1914-15 of the American
Therapeutic Society, is a member of the American Climatological and
Clinical Association, and in 1917-19 was president of the Mississippi Val-
ley Medical Association. He is now secretary of the Association for the
Study of Internal Secretions, and also belongs to the American Associa-
tion of Immunologists and the American Public Health Association, and
the various local, national and international associations for the study
and prevention of tuberculosis. He is a member of the American Sana-
torium Association. During the war he was on the Medical Advisory
Board of the Selective Draft.
Dr. Pottenger's published works and contributions to medical knowl-
edge are chiefly the following: Pulmonary Tuberculosis, published in
1908 ; Muscle Spasm and Degeneration in Intrathoracic Inflammation and
Light Touch Palpitation, pubhshed in 1912 : Tuberculin in Diagnosis and
Treatment, 1913 ; Clinical Tuberculosis, two volumes, published in 1917,
and Symptoms of Visceral Diseases, published in 1919. He has con-
tributed more than one hundred papers to medical journals. Dr. Potten-
ger has given addresses before many medical societies, both in this
country and abroad.
Dr. Pottenger is a member of the California, University and Gamut
clubs at Los Angeles. His first wife was Carrie Burtner. On August
29, 1900, he married Adalaide Gertrude Babbitt, of South Pasadena, and
on September 15, 1917, he married Caroline M. Lacy of Philadelphia.
Dr. Pottenger by his second marriage has three children : Francis
Marion, Jr., Robert Thomas and Adalaide Marie.
Elizabeth Jgrd.an Eichelberger. A concert pianist whose work
has been commended by audiences of most exacting standards and tastes
both in this country and abroad, Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger is a per-
manent resident of the Los Angeles musical colony and is one of the few
foremost artists in this city who received their early education here.
As Elizabeth Jordan she was born at Fairfield, Iowa, and attended
public school there to the age of eleven. She then came to California
with her parents and grandparents, who located at Pasadena. The
family came West for the benefit of her grandmother's health. In Pasa-
dena she attended the Marlborough School for Girls. A year and a half
later her parents moved to Los Angeles, and at the same time Mrs. Cas-
well moved her school to that city, so that her literary education was
practically completed in the Marlborough School.
Mrs. Eichelberger can not remember when she did not play. Her
serious study of the piano began at the age of seven. Her first teacher
was Mr. Piutti, who was a pupil of Liszt. Later she worked with Mr.
A. J. Stamm until the latter went to Europe to study, and under his able
irtstruction laid the foundation of a knowledge of playing accompanists
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to other instruments which later proved of great value to her in her
career as a concert pianist. She studied with Mrs. Marygold, and her
last instructor in this country was Thilo Becker, with whom she remained
a pupil four years.
Mrs. Eichelberger went to Europe in 1900, and for four years was
a pupil under Moritz Moszkowski. During the summer months she made
trips into Germany and Austria. One summer she went as accompanist
for Madam Regina de Sales, who was coach for operatic pupils and took
her class to Germany. Among noted singers for whom she played while
on this tour were Francis de Zara, Robert Blass, Lillian Nordica, and
others whose names are famous in Europe. While in Germany, Austria
and Paris she played both in concert and in the salons before many
well-known artists and critics and received very flattering European press
notices.
Since returning to America in 1905 Mrs. Eichelberger has played in
many Eastern cities with ijreat success, and after a series of triumphs
returned to Los Angeles. Here almost immedately she was engaged
as soloist with the Symphony Orchestra and also with the Woman's
Orchestra. Under the management of Mr. Behymer she played in many
concerts and recitals in Southern California.
In 1908 Miss Jordan became the wife of Harry Eichelberger. Their
two children, Harry and Margaret, are both musically inclined and doing
well in that subject as students of the piano. Harry is playing the
drums in two school orchestras, while Margaret has a voice of good
quality, and Mrs. Eichelberger plans its proper cultivation. She has also
developed considerable talent as ai' aesthetic dancer.
Mrs. Eichelberger combines a great technical ability with high artis-
tic culture and her powers are now estimated at their very prime. Since
her marriage she has given many recitals in company with Mrs. Mary-
gold for two pianos, and also appeared in ensemble concerts. She is a
charter member of the Dominant Club and the Los Angeles Music
Teachers' Association. She stands for what is loftiest and best in music
and hopes that Los Angeles will achieve its proper destiny as the great
artistic center of the world. Some of her pupils reflect the careful
guidance of her instruction. One is Kathleen Lockhart Manning, a
pianist and composer who has written several French songs considered
the best written by any American composer, and is now at work on
comic opera. Another is Mildred Dunham, a very talented pianist, and
Alpha Allen should also be named among her pupils.
I
Martin Henry Mosier grew up in western Pennsylvania, was a
small boy when the first crude petroleum was discovered in the Drake
well, and in 1876 he began operating as an oil producer. Since that
time both in oil and natural gas he has been one of the prominent
figures not only in Pennsylvania, but in the mid-continent fields, and now
in the Pacific Coast district. Mr. Mosier still has extensive interests
in oil scattered from Ohio to the Pacific Coast, but for the last ten years
he has made his home in Los Angeles.
He was bom near Pittsburgh, June 21, 1856, a son of Daniel and
Ann E. (Stewart) Mosier. His parents were life-long residents of
Pennsylvania. His grandfather spelled his name Moser and came from
the border of Alsace-Lorraine to America. The Mosiers originated in
Alsace-Lorraine, and of those that came to America some came through
Germany and others through England. Originally the name "Mosier"
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meant "The Lord of the Moss," in keeping with the custom of the
times. This branch of the family in America were the original owners
of the large tracts of land in the anthracite coal district of Pennsylvania,
before the value of anthracite was known. The Reading Coal and Iron
Company own it now.
Mr. Mosier's father was a farmer and he died about twenty-five
years ago on the farm secured from the Holland Land Company by Henry
Mosier, the grandfather, in 1832. Martin Henry was only two years of
age when his mother died. He was her only child. By his father's
second marriage he has three brothers and a sister.
Mr. Mosier was educated in the Glade Run Academy near Pitts-
burgh, and began teaching school when sixteen years old. During the
four succeeding winters he taught school and returned to the farm for
the summer. In 1876 he went into the oil country, and has been an
oil producer since that time. In 1880 he did some of the first work
in bringing into use the then wasting natural gas of Pennsylvania,
and in the East he became known as an expert in natural gas production,
transportation, distribution and the necessary appliances.
In 1881, as superintendent of the Bradford Gas, Light and Heating
Company, he built the first natural gas pumping station in the world
near Bradford, Pennsylvania. That was before Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
utilized natural gas, and the success of this enterprise made it possible
for all of the large cities surrounding the oil fields to secure natural gas
for fuel and lighting purposes in winter as well as summer. Later he
assisted in developing the use of natural gas in Indianapolis, Indiana,
Chicago, Illinois, and for the Carnegie Natural Gas Company in Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, who furnished the Carnegie Steel Company with
their natural gas requirements.
On August 8, 1883, Mr. Mosier married Miss Maud Isabel Adams,
of Franklin, Pennsylvania, where she was born and educated. Her
father was the late William Adams, and his only son, William B. Adams,
still owns the old farm where Mrs. Mosier was born, and this farm since
1860 has been a scene of active oil operations. Mrs. Mosier traces
her family free back to John Quincy and John and Samuel Adams of
Revolutionary times and farther back to William Adams of England,
prominent there in his time.
Mr. Mosier was one of the pioneer operators of the great Mid-
Continent oil field. He went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1905, when the
little box car at the railway station served about all there was to eat.
At that time all the banks of Tulsa did not have two hundred thousand
dollars in deposits whereas now the resources of the banks in that pro-
gressive city aggregate more than sixty million. In the early days he
was a prominent factor in every enterprise of Tulsa as a city and indus-
trial center. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of
Tulsa in 1909, and in 1910 an honorary position of Grand Chairmanship
of the Chairman of the Twenty-one Public Improvement Committees
was voted him by the directors and members of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
Mr. Mosier first visited California in 1909, and in finding Cali-
fornia climate and business opportunities to his liking, he made appro-
priate arrangements for the conduct of his business in the East and located
here permanently in July, 1910. Since then he has organized three close
corporations and has served as director and president of all of them
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since their incorporation. He is president of the Petroleum Company,
a California corporation, with a paid up capital of two hundred fifty
thousand dollars, whose home is in the Consolidated Realty Building of
Los Angeles, California. He is also president of the Carpathia Petroleum
Company of Oklahoma, whose home is in Tulsa, Clklahoma. Perhaps his
chief interest now is in the Sunshine Company, a big Los Angeles enter-
. prise with a capital stock of one million two hundred fifty thousand
dollars, engaged not only in the production of citrus fruits and general
fanning but also is interested in petroleum. This company owns the
celebrated Sunshine Ranch of forty-two hundred acres, located at the
foothills on the north side of the San Fernando Valley. In the citrus
groves, in the fields of grain and alfalfa, with the cattle, dairy, hogs and
poultry on this ranch Mr. Mosier spends much of his time, finding the
business both a recreation as well as a source of profit. Individually he
still conducts oil operations in Ohio and Oklahoma.
His family home is at 55 Fremont Place, between the Los Angeles
High School and Wilshire Boulevard, and is considered one of the beau-
tiful residences in the fashionable Wilshire district.
Mr. Mosier is a member of the Mid-Continental Oil & Gas Asso-
ciation, a member of the American Petroleum Institute, a member of
the Automobile Club of Southern California, a life member of the Press
Club of Los Angeles, a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, a
member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and is a director
and president of the newly organized Los Angeles High School Com-
munity Center, which organization has on its membership list nearly all
of the people residing in the west end of the city, who individually and
collectively have pledged themselves to make of that part of the city
the best location for homes for good American citizens whether they
are old or young.
Mrs. Mosier is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
is frequently on committees whose business it is to take care of the
deserving poor. Mr. and ^Irs. Mosier did their first house-keeping at
Gaston, Pennsylvania, the first natural gas town in the world. Their
first child was born there and they named him Earl Gaston ^Mosier.
They have two sons living. Earl Gaston and Harold Adams, and one
daughter, Laura Ethel, married to Edward L. Moorehead of Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead have a daughter, five years
old, that they call Maud Isabel, for her grandmother.
Another son, Martin Henry, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, in 1900, graduated as president of his class of the Los Angeles
High School in 1919 and entered Cornell University, without examina-
tion, for the 1919-20 term. He was injured on November 21, 1919, and
died Good-Friday morning. April 2, 1920, at the family home, Los
Angeles, California.
Theodore Summerl.\nd. A resident of Los Angeles forty years,
the son of a California forty-niner, the late Theodore Summerland was
the type of citizen who deserves a long memory, not only for his use-
fulness in business, but for the friendships he enjoyed and the generosity
that characterized every motive and action of his career.
He was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of sixty-
six on November 8, 1919. He was only nine years of age when he
came to California. His father as a forty-niner had crossed the plains
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with team and wagon and lived for a time in Maryville. Theodore
Sunimerland was educated in the schools of Santa Clara. His father
was a merchant, and both parents were very devout Presbyterians. His
father died while engaged in his usual occupation of reading the Scrip-
tures.
Theodore Summerland as a young man took up the life insurance
business and followed that for many years. Though he acquired a for-
tune in business, he had dispensed practically all of it before his death.
He was a natural philanthropist. He did not study out big plans for
using his wealth, but gave freely, without special consideration for his
own needs, and his life was one long exemplification of unselfish charity.
Mr. Summerland was also long a noted political leader. He served
as a member of the City Council in 1891-92, and from 1903 until 1906.
The last two years he was president of the Council. He also served one
term as county assessor of Los Angeles County, and for one term was a
member of the old State Railroad Commission, just before that body
was reorganized by Governor Hiram Johnson.
Mr. Summerland married Mrs. Unger in 1907. She survives him.
Theodore Summerland was a prominent member of the Elks Order
and was one of the founders and the first exalted ruler of Los Angeles
Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. E. He took a prominent part in the affairs of
the Elks Club and was one of the leaders in the recent campaign to
raise a large fund for the building of a new Elks Club home. He was
laid to rest with the impressive services of his Elks Lodge.
Louise M.vrie F.azend.v. Unselfishly, and with the wholesome
sweetness of her nature unspoiled by success, Louise Marie Fazenda is
one of Southern California's celebrities who make the world better by
laughter.
Miss Fazenda, who for several years has been one of the leading-
commediennes of the moving picture world, was born at Lafayette,
Indiana, and was six months old when her parents came to Los Angeles.
Her father, Joseph Altamar Fazenda, is a native of Mexico, of French
and Italian ancestry. He is a merchandise broker, and in California
owns an oriental shop, doing a large Mexican and foreign trade. He is
conversant with many languages. Miss Fazenda's mother was Nelda
Schilling, a native of Chicago. Louise was educated in public and pri-
vate schools in Los Angeles, and her ambition for a college education
was denied her for lack of funds. As was true of many American
children of the past generation, the atmosphere in which she was reared
was that of restraint rather than encouragement to expression. She
recalls Sunday as one day in the week when the family had roast meat.
She was dressed in calico and frequently attended missionary meetings.
As a small girl her ideal was Bernhardt. In not realizing the lofty
heights represented by that figure of the tragic stage, her individual at-
tainments have been greater than her modesty will lead her to confess.
Her rather lonely girlhood made her the more determined to have the
things her family thought should be denied. One day a friend asked her
if siie would like to make some money for Christmas. A picture com-
pany had use for a number of extras, and that would be an opportunity
for Louise. A family discussion followed, and not so much to encourage
the aspiring artist as to get her away from the house with her dramatics,
she was allowed to accept the humble role offered. She immediately
found favor and was soon doing everything from blackface to ingenue
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with curls. While at work on the field one day she attracted the atten-
tion of Mack Sennett, and has been with his company of celebrated mo-
tion players ever since. Miss Fazenda is one of the few women able to
do Sis Hopkins' tricks. It goes without saying that her salary and posi-
tion have steadily improved, and she is today the star commedienne of the
Sennett Studios.
Miss Fazenda has had another ambition, and much of her early
work for an education was performed largely out of a desire to do some-
thing in journalism and literature. She spent a great deal of money
studying the newspaper art. Several of her stories were accepted by
magazines, and the pleasure of seeing [ler work in print was probably
greater than that derived from her appearance on the movie screen. She
now contributes regularly to several motion picture magazines. Her
favorite poetry is that of Byron, and a copy of Byron is always on her
table. Miss Fazenda is also very fond of out-of-door sports, her favorites
being hiking and swimming. She is a liberal contributor to the King's
Daughters, also to the County Hospital for Old Ladies, and during the
war gave much of her time to auxiliary movements, being captain of the
Red Cross work at the Sennett Studios.
Miss Winifred Kingston. Since her entrance into the world of
moving pictures, some six years ago. Miss Winifred Kingston has made
rapid advancement in her art and now has a large and loyal following
all over the country. Combined with much natural talent is a nature
in attuiie with her surroundings, the two serving to give to her acting
a freshness and vividness that goes at once to the hearts of those who
witness the productions in which she appears.
Miss Kingston has been the architect of her own success and for-
tune, for she was still a child when her father, a brilliant man and
great lover of all English sports, died, leaving his family little save
the legacy of an honorable name. She was born in England, went to
Scotland as a child, and at the age of fourteen years settled in Belgium,
where she entered Paliceul Convent in the Ardemus. When her father
died it was found necessary that she become self supporting, and; having
a natural talent for dramatics, chose that field as the one in which to
make her way. In 1910 Miss Kingston came to the United States,
where she first taught French — then the stage, then pictures in 1914
under the direction of Augustus Thomas. Her first picture of importance
was "Soldiers of Fortune," with Richard Harding Davis as a director,
and Dustin Farnum in the lead, in the making of which the company
went to Santiago, Cuba, and in which Miss Kingston played the part of
the Spaniard. She next had important roles, always with Dustin Far-
num, in "The Squaw Man," which was a Lasky production as were
"Brewster's Millions," "The Virginians," "The Call of the North,"
"Where the Trail Divides," "Cameo Kirby," with Dustin Farnum and
Robert Edeson, and "The Love Root," with Famous Players starring.
She then became a member of Lasky's Famous Players Company, playing
in "The Gentleman from Indiana," "The Call of the Cumberlands,"
'David Garrick," "Ben Blair," "David Crockett" and "A Son of Erin."
Changing to Fox, she played in "The Spy," "The Scarlet Pimpernel,"
"Durand of the Bad Lands" and "North of 53." Her latest picture,
"The Light of Western Stars," was made with United Picture Theaters.
Miss Kingston is a typical English girl, delightfully appreciative
of all that is beautiful in nature, and says she has learned to love the
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beautiful California hills quite the same as those of her own country. She
truly loves America and has her mother living with her at Los Angeles,
and more recently has brought her sister, Gertrude, to make her home
here. Gertrude Kingston is a very talented girl with a remarkable voice,
who has appeared in a number of semi-professional productions and who
plans to follow a professional career on the stage. She has received the
highest praise from Sir Arthur MacKenzie as to the quality of her voice.
During the period of the war she was forced to remain in England, de-
spite the superhuman efiforts of her mother and sister to secure her release
from that countrv to come to America, where she arrived in the spring
of 1919.
While waiting she busied herself in war work, in which she wit-
nessed many dreadful tragiedies which greatly unnerved her, but is now
engrossing her mind with study, in which she hopes to obliterate the
horrors of war. Recently she appeared as a "French Baby" in a demon-
stration of the Young Women's Christian Association pupils at the gym-
nasium of that organization at Los Angeles.
The intense affection existing between the mother and sisters brought
about many anxious moments for all during the war, when they were
separated, and eventually they requested in a letter that Gertrude go to a
phonographic record house and have a record of her voice made for
them. Miss Winifred, in turn, induced her mother to be incorporated in
some of the scenes of a moving picture. Thus, while the one daughter
was in London, the mother and her sister could sit by their fireside and
with the aid of the record on the phonograph hear her sing; while the
daughter abroad could see her mother and sister on the film.
Arlyn T. Vance, Doctor of Osteopathy, who has enjoyed great
success in his work at Los Angeles during the past four years, is a young
man of versatile gifts and accomplishments and experience.
He was born at New Douglas, Illinois, October 5, 1882, son of
Thomas and Melvina (Elam) Vance. His father spent his active life
as a minister of the Christian Church. The son undoubtedly inherited
some of his father's martial spirit. His father entered the Union army
at the time of the Civil war when only fifteen years of age. For a
laimber of years the Vance family lived at Indianapolis, where the father
was engaged in his pastoral duties. Arlyn T. Vance attended grammar
and high school in that city. He was not yet sixteen years of age when
the Spanish-American war broke out. Running away from high school
he joined the 161st Indiana Volunteers, and was fortunate in being sent
to Cuba. He was in the service nearly a year and then resumed his
high school studies. About that time he heard of the transport Sunnier,
said to be the finest troop ship afloat. The proposed trip of this trans-
port was through the Suez Canal around the world to the Philipijines
and return by way of Japan and San Francisco. Dr. X'ance could not
resist 'the temptation to ride as an enlisted soldier on this wonderful boat.
He again ran away from school and the Sumner carried him over the
seas to the Philippines. For two years he was fighting the Filipino rebels
under Aguinaldo, and was in a number of skirmishes. At that time he
had two great desires, one to be a soldier, which he had already realized,
and the other a musician. When he sailed on the Sumner he was made
trumpeter. In two weeks after arriving in the Philippines he responded
to the request of the chief musician of the regiment that anyone wanting
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to study music should report to him. After four months of diligent
study and training, young Vance was made a member of the regimental
band. He kept up the study all the three years he was in the army and
acquired an exceptional degree of proficiency. He came back from the
Philippines by way of San Francisco, and his first impressions of Cali-
fornia led him eventually to making the state his permanent home. For
a time he was a musician on the vaudeville stage and with several min-
strel companies. One of these companies ended the season in Havana,
Cuba, at which place Mr. Vance lived for a number of months, em-
ployed as manager of an American Hotel. In order to have a more
settled vocation he went to Kirksville, Missouri, and entered the parent
school of osteopathy, and completed the course. While in college he
paid his expenses by teaching music and directing the Kirksville band.
Dr. Vance in fact has been self supporting since he was fourteen years
of age.
After his graduation he came west to California and practiced at
Orange, and in 1916 removed to Los Angeles, where his services as an
osteopath have been retained by many prominent people.
Dr. Vance married Miss Adna Winifred \\'idney, a very accom-
plished musician, composer and singer. She is a daughter of Samuel A.
and Anna E. Widney, one of the pioneer families of Los Angeles.
Dr. Vance is a member of the Gamut Club of Los Angeles and is
independent in politics. Besides his distinctions as a soldier, musician
and physician, he might justly claim to be known as an inventor. He has
already been granted patents on a hot water bottle, and also an automatic
stabilizer for aeroplanes. Aside from this he is actively interested in
aeronautics, being a member of the Board of Directors of a Los Angeles
aeroplane corporation.
H. J. Whitley, \\hile there is a generous and widespread appre-
ciation of the magnificent results achieved in developing many of the
beautiful districts around Los Angeles, it is not generally understood
how much of the credit is due the guiding genius and inspiration of a
few far-sighted and public spirited individuals. Some of the best
examples of this development, notably at Hollywood, have not proceeded
from the haphazard and undirected enterprise of a community and its
inhabitants, but from a powerful concentration of effort originating
largely in a single man or organization.
Those intimately informed as to the history of progress and develop-
ment in the wonderful section of Los Angeles north of the city proper,
including Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, are aware that the
results achieved are due largely to the silent workings, plans and energies
of H. J. Whitley. Mr. \\'hitley exemplifies in an eminent degree that
broadly constructive spirit and genius for development which makes
communities and cities. Mr. Whitley's forte has not only consisted in
town development, the usual scope of his enterprise having extended over
a much greater area than that prescribed in any single town site.
Mr. Whitley was born at Toronto, Canada, October 7, 1859. He
is a descendant on his paternal side of a prominent English family and
on his maternal side from a well known Scotch family. Most of his
early boyhood was spent at Flint, Michigan, where he received his early
education, and he attended the Toronto Commercial College.
Long before he came to Los Angeles his development work had
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expanded to a large scale in the middle west, northwest and southwest.
For a number of years his headquarters were in Kansas City and Minne-
apolis, where he became interested in banking and large land develop-
ments. While the Northern Pacific Railway was building through to
the coast he became associated with some of its leading officials, managing
and developing large acreage of lands and towns along the line and was
also an officer and organizer of a chain of banks on the route of the
Northern Pacific. During that period of his career he organized and
managed the H. J. Whitley Land Mortgage Company, which is still his
principal business and which for many years has performed a large
and extensive service in the middle states.
Mr. Whitley was one of the first capitalists and men of enterprise
on the ground at the opening of the original Oklahoma Territory. He
was in Guthrie the day of the opening, and soon afterward built and
owned the first brick block in the territory, housing the Guthrie National
Bank. He built numerous brick and stone business blocks in that city,
also in Oklahoma City, El Reno, Chickasha, Enid, Medford and in numer-
ous other towns on the Rock Island railroad.
He organized and was leading officer in a number of banks and was
appointed trustee and treasurer of various Indian allotments in Oklahoma,
and managed these lands both for the Indians and the Rock Island
Railroad Company. He had a large interest in and entire charge of
the development work along the Rock Island road from Kansas to Fort
Worth, Texas. Mr. Whitley in that capacity platted a number of
towns, including the now important cities of Chickasha, Medford, Enid,
El Reno and about twenty others. Before the organization of the
territory of Oklahoma he was sent as a non-official representative by both
republicans and democrats to assist at Washington in the framing of the
first laws of the territory. It was due entirely to his influence and efiforts
that the first territorial capital was located at Guthrie. His first large
school development work was in Oklahoma and included the building
of the State Normal School and the chairmanship of the Board of
Trustees.
His heavy responsibilities and the continuous strain of business
effort brought about a breakdown in health, and on the advice of his
physicians Mr. Whitley came to California in 1893. He was soon after-
ward employing his talents and means in local constructive enterprises,
although his interests elsewhere have always continued large. His
greatest task and the scene of his best work has been in the district
of Hollywood and the contiguous territory of the San Fernando Valley.
From an open country he developed the modern Hollywood, having as
his associates some of the most prominent business men of Los Angeles.
Individually, however, he owned the principal interests and had the chief
burdens of management. He was the first to conceive the idea of making
Hollywood a suburb of Los Angeles. Largely through his efiforts water
was distributed throughout the Hollywood hills. He donated five tracts
of lands, two reservoir sites and other grounds which today are valued
by the water company at nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
He also gave nearly the entire site for the Hollywood Hotel and the
First National Bank property and organized the bank. He was a large
stockholder in these and other institutions which developed Hollywood.
He put in the first electric light and telephone systems. It was his
influence that attracted the assistance of E. P. Clark and Gen. M. H.
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Sherman in their building the electric line through Hollywood. The
splendid boulevards, Sunset and Hollywood, were conceived in his
original plan for the development of Hollywood. Up to that time
suburban development around Los Angeles had encountered baffling
obstacles, and it was the sheer will, force and able management of Mr.
Whitley that brought about the first real suburban success.
With present results and the possibilities of the future in mind,
doubtless the greatest achievement of Mr. \\hitley in Southern Cali-
fornia has been the transformation of the San Fernando Valley from
an immense grain field to a high class suburban property. It was about
1900 that he conceived the idea of developing the valley empire and
adding it to the growing suburbs of Los Angeles. Finally, in September,
1909, he and his four associates completed the negotiation for the pur-
chase of forty-seven thousand acres for the sum of two million five
hundred thousand dollars and spending about three millions for develop-
ment work. The men actively associated with Mr. Whitley were General
H. G. Otis, O. F. Brant and General I\I. H. Sherman and Harry Chandler,
each having a filth interest. All were attracted to the project as much
by the benefits it would bring to the city as by prospective profits. Later
they divided their interests with their associates, employes and others
whom they wished to benefit. In all the Whitley enterprises there has
been no promoter's stock or secret profits or commissions to him. Mr.
\\'hitley accepted the management of the project and planned, executed
and managed the entire business from both a financial and development
standpoint, having at all times the able and hearty co-operation of his
fellow members on the board. He planned and caused to be built a
double asphalt boulevard sixteen miles long, lined with roses and rare
shrubbery, which was named "Sherman Way" in honor of his friend
General M. H. Sherman. He also established towns and caused the
erection of school buildings and churches, in line with his previous enter-
prise at Hollywood, where he had been instrumental in erecting three
fine school buildings, adding five more in San Fernando Valley. Perhaps
even more important, from the standpoint of affording a livelihood to
the inhabitants of the valley, was the introduction of orchards, bean and
sugar beet raising, banks, poultry industry, alfalfa ranches, stock, vege-
tables and several manufacturing institutions. Mr. Whitley and his
associates recognized and acted upon the fundamental principle in the
handling of such projects, that a vast amount of capital must be expended
upon improvement and development and that the benefits must in a
large degree be shared with the individual purchasers and the realiza-
tion of profits be deferred through a long period of years even through
the most stringent financial times. Actual settlers have never been
pressed for payments. The outstanding fact is that today approximately
a hundred twenty thousand acres in the San Fernando Valley have been
annexed to Los Angeles and are an enormous asset in wealth and power
to the larger city. ]\Ir. Whitley regards his work in the San Fernando
Valley as the culmination of a lifetime replete with success. The keynote
of his operations has always been development — the building of fine
boulevards, schools, churches, railways and houses, and the establishment
of banks and industries to give a livelihood to settlers.
Another earlier enterprise was the purchase with associates of nearly
forty thousand acres in Kings and Tulare counties and the establishment
of the town of Corcoran, the financing of which enterprise fell largely
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on Mr. Whitley personally and largely through him the district has
developed into one of the finest and largest dairy sections in California.
It is appropriate to speak of Mr. Whitley as the father of Holly-
wood and many other places which exemplify his modem methods and
capable management and are among the best town and suburban com-
munities in the United States.
It should also be noted that a few years ago, in order to close up
affairs, Mr. Whitley took over the balance of unsold lands and assets of
the Suburban Homes Company, taking over a large amount of land and
other assets, supplying the capital and making it possible to wind up
the affairs of the company. This was another of his generous acts, in
line with his desire to insure that his policy of giving the land buyer
who improves his holding proper accommodation and support should
be continued.
In 1887 Mr. Whitley married Miss Margaret Virginia Ross, daughter
of W^illiam M. Ross. Mrs. Whitley is a member of one of the oldest
and best known families of Philadelphia. She has greatly aided her
husband in the upbuilding of churches, schools and worthy social develop-
ment work.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitley have two children, a son and a daughter.
The daughter, Grace Virginia, was married in 1915 and has two beautiful
children. The son, Ross Emmett Whitley, is well known in Los Angeles
business and banking circles, and his training and character well fit
him to carry on the extensive enterprises of his father.
Bessie Barriscale. To the growing fame of Hollywood as an
artist colony probably not one has contributed more of real achievement
and greater dignity than Miss Bessie Barriscale. While her name has
been well known to lovers of the legitimate and the movie stage for
a number of years, it is appropriate to tell in brief the story of her life
for this publication.
She was born in New York City, her father being an English actor
and her mother an Irish girl. Her parents were married in London
and came to America with the original English company which produced
"Lights o' London" in New York and made a tour of the country.
Bessie's introduction to the stage was with James A. Hearne in
"Shore Acres" when she was five years old. She was with Mr. Hearne
for several years in child parts and has played all the famous child char-
acters from Little Eva to Little Lord Fauntleroy. She was associated
with Russ Whytal and played a number of parts with him, but the en-
gagement which Miss Barriscale says made her an actress was with
Louis James, who was fond of her and who saw that she was trained
to be an artist. With James she played some good parts and under-
studied Katherin Kidder in several leading Shakespearean roles.
Miss Barriscale has been associated with the best stock companies
in the country and has played with many highly esteemed artists. She
played Lovey Mary in New York for a season, and went with the
company to London, playing ten months there.
At San Francisco and Los Angeles she became associated with two
parts which she says have been her favorites : Juanita in "The Rose of
the Rancho" and Luana in "The Bird of Paradise," the play which
Richard Walton Tully wrote for her.
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Her last big stage success was "We Are Seven," by Eleanor Gates,
in which she played in New York. After a summer season in San Fran-
cisco, she joined the Lasky Company to play the lead in "The Rose of
the Rancho."
Jesse L. Lasky is responsible for her first appearance in the pictures,
and she made a successful screen debut in "The Rose of the Rancho."
The good judge of stars, Thomas H. Ince, then offered her an engage-
ment, and after joining the New York Motion Picture forces she was
starred in many fine pictures.
In the fall of 1918 Miss Barriscale organized her own company, which
is known in the motion picture industry as B. B. Features, her husband,
Howard Hickman, being president : J. L. Frothingham, general manager.
At the organization of her company Miss Barriscale was awarded the
largest contract for single features ever made by any star. This con-
tract was with Robertson-Cole of New York, who engaged Miss Barri-
scale to make sixteen feature pictures before Januan,' 1. 1921.
Up to the time of this writing Miss Barriscale has produced for B. B.
Features, "All of the Sudden Norma," "Tangled Threads," "Hearts
Asleep," "A Trick of Fate," "Josselyn's Wife," "The Woman Alichael
Married," "Her Purchase Price" and "Kitty Kelley, M. D."
All of these features are being produced at Brunton Studios, which
will be the professional home of Miss Barriscale until her contract is
completed.
In private life Miss Barriscale is Mrs. Howard Hickman. Mr.
Hickman has demonstrated that he is not only a good director but a good
husband. All of Miss Barriscale's pictures, save "The Woman Michael
Married" have been directed by Mr. Hickman. Miss Barriscale and her
husband were in vaudeville together for several years before going into
pictures, Mr. Hickman himself being an unusually fine actor.
The Hickman home in Hollywood is an extraordinarily attractive
place, made more so by the liberal hospitality dispensed by its charming
mistress. Miss Barriscale is an honorably member of several clubs, but
she has so little time apart from her professional work that she has no
opportunity to actively engage in club work.
So far as known she is the only motion picture star ever mentioned
for gubernatorial honors. Some time ago ^liss Barriscale raised her
voice against the growing tendency of landlords to bar children from
hotels and apartment houses and bungalow courts, and her defense of
the children so interested a San Francisco club woman she suggested
Miss Barriscale as desirable timber for Governor of the Commonwealth.
Miss Barriscale is also one of the little mothers of the screen. She has
a little son, and those familiar with the home life of the Hickmans say
that there is no better little mother in the world.
She entered with whole-souled enthusiasm and with ardent pa-
triotism into every feature of war work. She was a participant in the
various Liberty Loan and other drives, and not only appeared in person
but took the megaphone and actually sold bonds, and was one of the
popular entertainers at the soldiers' and sailors' camps.
Miss Barriscale is a patron of literature, art and music, being es-
pecially interested in music and an accomplished musician herself, but
her heart and soul are in dramatic work and before she was sixteen
years old she had earned an enviable place on the American stage. Miss
Barriscale holds a unique place in motion pictures, and her name has
come to be a guarantee of dramatic excellence.
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Sarah Rebecca Slauson, who died at her home in Los Angeles
February 20, 1920, was distinguished not only by long residence in the
city but by rare personal charms and accomplishments. She was an ex-
ceptional linguist, a fine musician, and even in old age retained much of
the distinguished beauty of her youth.
She was born in New York City December 11, 1836, daughter of
Abram and Catharine (De Cantillon) Blum. Her mother lived at the
Old Chelsea landmark on Twenty-ninth street between Ninth and Tenth
avenues in New York City. Under the name of "London Terrace"
this landmark has stood for three-cjuarters of a century. Mrs. Slauson's
mother was of the Irish family of De Cantillon of Ballyheigue, Traler,
County Kerry. The family seat was Ballyheigue Castle, and it is a
matter of history that one of the De Cantillons espoused the fortunes of
James II and after the flight of the king to France followed him thither.
One was distinguished in battles in France and raised to the title of
Baron de Ballyheigue. One of the daughters of the De Cantillon family
married a French captain, and one of her descendants was "Chef de
Battilon de Cantillon."
Sarah Rebecca Slauson graduated from Rutgers Female Institute
of New York in 1852 and on July 22, 1858, became the wife of Jonathan
Sayre Slauson. They lived in New York City for several years, while
Mr. Slauson practiced his profession as a lawyer. Their daughters,
Kate Vosburg and Louise Macneil, were born in New York City, at
London Terrace between Ninth and Tenth avenues.
During the early sixties the Slausons moved out to Nevada, making
their home at White Pine for four years. Mr. Slauson besides practicing
his profession was also engaged in mining operations. Their son James
Slauson was born at Austin, Nevada. From .Nevada they removed to
California about 1872, and lived five or six years in San Francisco before
making their permanent home at Los Angeles. D'liring all her years in
Los Angeles Mrs. Slauson took an active and helpful part in charitable
and social enterprises.
Edward A. Howard, one of the sons of the late Frederick P.
Howard, has achieved special distinction as an authority on tropical
plant life, and is a well known horticultural expert. He was born at
Los Angeles December 25, 1875. His early education was acquired in
the old Eighth Street and Spring Street public schools, and also in St.
Vincent's College. Since early youth he has been employed in horticul-
tural lines. In 1907 he went on an expeditionary trip for E. L. Doheney.
He traveled through Old Mexico, Guatemala and Cuba, making eighteen
different trips and side trips into the wildest parts of the jungle, by
foot, accompanied by native guides and porters. The purpose of all
this extensive tropical journeying was to make a collection of palms, and
a close study and investigation of the environment and methods of propa-
gating and cultivating them. Mr. Howard as a result of his work
shipped fifty-three carloads of palms into Los Angeles for Mr. Doheney.
The Doheney collection, as is well known, is considered the finest in the
world under glass. Mr. Howard returned to Los Angeles in 1915, and
since then has been manager of the nursery of his brother Paul J. at
Los Nietos. This nursery, which covers twenty acres of ground, has
furnished many commercial as well as rare specimens for the gardens
of Southern California.
Mr. Howard is a republican in politics. He married at San Ber-
nardino, October 16, 1916, Caroline Tommeraas of Norway.
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Dr. Frank Slater Daggett was a successful business man with a
dominating passion for natural history. The work which will cause
Los Angeles County to appreciate and esteem his memory m all the years
to come was the enthusiastic, disinterested and inspired service he rendered
for a number of years as director of the Museum of History, Science and
Art at Exposition Park.
The late Dr. Daggett was born at Norwalk, Ohio, January 30, 1855.
He had a public school education, and as a school boy manifested that
singular interest and powers of close observation in his natural environ-
ment which, with continued training, eventually opened him many of the
most remote secrets of nature. At the age of fifteen it is said he started
collecting butterflies. At the time of his death he had the second largest
collection of birds in California. This collection contained over eight
thousand bird skins, and he also had a collection of over two thousand
species of beetles. While he never had the advantage of university
training and the open fields were his laboratory, his name was spoken
with esteem by many of the great naturalists and scientists of the world,
and many of them were his personal friends. His work was very
thorough and finished, and it is characteristic of his quiet and unassuming
nature that he often did all the foundation work for which others took
credit, and more than one experience of this kind did not in the least
embitter him, since he appeared to be perfectly satisfied to satisfy his
ambition as a seeker for knowledge and let the credit go where it
would.
Dr. Daggett lived for several years in Milwaukee and in Duluth,
Minnesota, as a grain man, and at one time served as president of the
Grain Board of that city. His wonderful business ability enabled him
to achieve a distinctive success, and he could at will concentrate his
energies almost upon any undertaking. While in Duluth he was chosen
a member of the School Board, though he had been a resident of the city
only two years. He served as chairman of the finance committee when
the Duluth High School was built, at that time ranking as the second
finest building of the kind in the L^nited States. He was deeply interested
in education, particularly scientific training, and on his pleasure trips
to Florida and elsewhere he would always bring back collections of
specimens to be used for study in the schools.
Dr. Daggett made several trips to California and finally came here
to live in 1895. He was one of the older members' of the Cooper
Ornithological Society, and was frequently a leader among Los Angeles
boys in e.xpeditions to study nature. The greatest delight he could ex-
perience was a tramp in the woods and under the open skies. All his
evenings were spent in reading and studying, and the companionship
of his home circle.
Dr. Daggett took charge of the Museum of History, Science and
Art at Exposition Park when it was first built nine years ago. He had
charge of the design and arrangement of the interior of the Museum,
which was built by the county at a cost of two hundred fifty thousand
dollars. This Museum contains many archsological treasures as well
as a department of Fine and Applied Arts. It was through Dr. Daggett
that the peculiarly rich geological and archreological field of the Rancho
la Brea was investigated and made to give up its treasures, including
fossils of the mastadon and other specimens of gigantic prehistoric ani-
mals, many of which have a permanent home in the Museum. Dr.
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Daggett was untiring in his care that the material should be available
for those who were studying it, and it was for the scientific manner of
his handling the collection that he received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Science.
On this topic it is appropriate to quote a portion of a letter from
Dr. Chester Stock, of the University of California, who says: "The
research on the Rancho la Brea Pleistocene fauna, conducted by scientists
from the University of California and from elsewhere, has in very
large measure received stimulus through the hearty co-operation of Dr.
Daggett. I have realized this particularly in the monographic study of
the ground sloth group, for the investigation would necessarily have tieen
incomplete were it based only on materials collected by the University
of California at Rancho la Brea. Dr. Daggett wanted us to incorporate
the studies of the Museum collections with those based on materials
in the Department of Paleontology, and with this in view he strongly
advocated keeping the Museum materials intact until such studies had
been completed. The wisdom of this view has been fully shown."
Though accounted an authority, Dr. Daggett wrote little of a techni-
cal nature. Some of his short articles, in the nature of suggestions and
criticism, betraying his accurate and comprehensive knowledge and
largely on subjects of Arnithology and Entomology, appeared in the
Condor Ornithological Magazine and the Entomological News.
It was largely through the personal influence of Dr. Daggett that
the late General Otis was induced to give the present "Otis Art Institute"
to the county as an auxiliary establishment of the Museum of History,
.Science and Art. That, too, came under Dr. Daggett's direction, who
secured C. P. Townsley as managing director. Both of these institutions
in the higher life of Los Angeles are practical monuments to the
thoroughness and work of Dr. Daggett. Besides the institution at Los
Angeles destined to carry on his life studies, students of natural history
everywhere have become familiar with his name, which is part of the
terminology used in describing several species of birds and animals.
Among the noted scientists who gave his work personal tribute of praise
was Dr. Osborn.
His youthful enthusiasm never deserted him, and for that reason
his death at the age of sixty-five seemed the greater loss to his friends
and the community. He died Easter Monday, 1920, after having at-
tended Sunrise Service at Mount Roubidoux and having taken a trip
to Smiley Heights with his wife and wife's mother. Dr. Daggett
married Miss Lela Axtell, at Augusta, Wisconsin, in 1884. Two children
were born to their marriage : Ethel, Mrs. Paul Stewart Rattle, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Axtell Daggett, who died at Pasadena
at the age of nine.
Douglas Fairbanks. While English-speaking people everywhere
might stoutly assert their claim to the art and smile of Douglas Fairbanks
as one of their inalienable rights, the fact remains that for several years
his home, his workshop and playground have been at Hollywood. No
apology is required, therefore, for including a sketch of his life among
other famous people of Southern California represented in this pub-
lication.
Douglas Fairbanks was born in Denver, Colorado, thirty-six years
ago. His father was a New York lawyer who went west to look after
.some mining interests and remained there to live. The elder Fairbanks
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was a profound Shakespearean scholar, and the study of the poet's
dramas was included in Douglas' earliest curriculum. He began learn-
ing the famous speeches of Hamlet and Othello at seven, and by the
time he was ten years old he knew by heart all of the familiar passages.
The interest of the elder Fairbanks in Shakespeare had gained him
a wide acquaintance among the exponents of the playwright's works, and
when these players visited Denver they were invariably entertained in
the Fairbanks home. So it came about that at the age of ten the future
king of the movies was spouting "To be or not to be" to the best actors
of the time in a Denver drawing room. "Of course, I didn't know what
the words meant," says Mr. Fairbanks, "but I could recite them all."
■When Douglas was seventeen the family moved to New York, and
with his Shakespearean background it was but natural he should decide
tipon a stage career, and also that his first chance should come in the
company of one of his father's friends, Frederick Warde. At first the
young man had only bits to do, but when the troupe played at Duluth,
something happened to one of the principals and he was promoted to the
Toles of Cassio and Laertes. Thereafter, according to Mr. Fairbanks,
the newspapers of the towns in which the company appeared, invari-
ably contained some such notice as this : "Frederick Warde appeared at
the opera house last night in 'Hamlet.' His supporting company was
bad, but the worst was Douglas Fairbanks as Laertes."
The young actor's body had not then acquired the symmetry that
was to make it famous in later years, and he admits now that the
-scrawny legs, round face, and long feet of youth, coupled with his sing-
song declamation, a heritage of his boyhood, were not calculated to give
the provincial critics pause. The more he pondered their harsh ob-
servations, the more certain he became that what he needed before he
became the Shakespearan actor his father wished him to be was a liberal
education.
So after this season with Mr. Warde he went to Harvard. He
found the credits he had brought from the Denver city schools and the
'Colorado School of Mines were not sufficient to allow him to enroll as a
freshman, and he became a special student with courses in elementary
T^atin, French and English literature. That sounded cultural enough,
:and what with liberal courses in freshman caps, bull dog pipes and
Blumenthal posters, young Fairbanks was kept interested for five months.
Then he grew restless and decided he didn't have time to become lib-
erally educated.
He returned to the stage, this time in the support of Effie Shannon
and Herbert Kelcey in "Her Lord and Master." When that engagement
was over, the wanderlust, always a throbbing reality in his life, sent
him to Europe on a cattle boat. He and two pals started on their trip
with fifty dollars apiece and worked their way safely home at the end
of three months.
Wall street saw him next. It was quite the thing to become identi-
fied with the street even in those days, when leaks were unknown, and
he went in because most of the young men he knew were becoming
brokers, rather than for any aptness for figures or finance. Nevertheless,
before six months had passed he had become the head of the order depart-
ment of the brokerage house of DeCoppett and Doremus, a considerable
position for a youngster. He might have continued as a broker had not
the fear that his employers would learn his real ignorance of stocks and
bonds caused him to resign.
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Next he thought he would like to become a captain of industry,
and in the approved manner of books he put on overalls and learned
all about the manufacture of bolts, nuts and hinges in a downtown hard-
ware manufactory. When he had mastered the secrets of all the floors of
the factory he began investigating the other departments. One of the
first things he discovered was that the head of the concern was drawing
a salary of ten thousand a year and that this reward had come at the
end of many years of hard work. Shortly after that the embryonic
captain of industry folded up his overalls and returned to the stage.
He played a year in Alice Fisher's support in "Mrs. Jack," follow-
ing Edward Abies in the role he created. His engagement ended pre-
maturely after a duel of words with the company manager, a gentleman
who subsequently became a producer in his own right. It was only nat-
ural that youth and vitality such as Mr. Fairbanks possessed should not be
confined to the limits of one role, and on many occasions it overflowed
in the form of interpolated lines and business. After an unusually ex-
uberant performance, the manager "called" him before some of the
other members of the company. The result of the riot that followed was
the resignation of Fairbanks and its immediate acceptance.
Tlie episode so discouraged him that he decided to become a lawyer,
and for all of three months he read law in the office of E. M. Hollander
& Son. Mr. Fairbanks might be influencing juries with his irresistible
smile had not a wave of Japanese operetta submerged the local stage
just when he began to toy with Blackstone. At that period no musical
comedy was complete without its geisha girls fanning 'neath the shade
of cerise-blossomed cherry trees. To the impressionable young counselor
at law far off Japan seemed one huge tea party of geisha girls, and he
was consumed with a desire to taste of its exotic delights. The time
fuse of his wanderlust had about burned out anyway, and when the
spark reached its desire Mr. Fairbanks was hurled across the Atlantic
enroute to the Orient with an idea of disposing of the rights to an elec-
tric switch for enough to enable him to spend the rest of his life riding
in a rickashaw with room for two. But in London he stumbled upon a
New York friend and forgot all about the geishas.
When he returned home he went under the management of William
Brady, an association that lasted on and ofif for seven years. He ap-
peared under Mr. Brady's direction a season in New York in "The
Pit," and the end of the engagement following a disagreement about a
reduction of salary he was again at large.
In London again (whenever in doubt he invariably went there, he
says) he met Lee Schubert, who engaged him for a part in "Fantana,"
his first role in a musical play, and while he was still appearing in it
Mr. Brady wired and asked him if he would consider a five years' con-
tract. Mr. Fairbanks was so surprised, recalling their parting, that he
telegraphed the manager to see if the message had really come from him.
A short time afterward he was a star in "Frenzied Finance." There
followed in the five successive years during which he-was starred by Mr.
Brady roles in "The Man of the Hour," "All for a Girl," "The Gentle-
man from Mississippi," "The Cub," and "A Gentleman of Leisure."
These plavs had runs that varied from three weeks to a year and a half.
It was during the shortest run, that of "All for a Girl," that the
Fairbanks smile first suggested its possibilities. Most of the critics were
fascinated by it and mentioned it in their reviews. The play opened
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Monday night and Wednesday morning's papers contained a large ad-
vertisement exhorting people to come to the matinee and bask in the
radiance of the Fairbanks smile. That afternoon there was thirty dol-
lars in the house.
"A Gentleman of Leisure" was not the success the notices indicates
it would be, and one night after the performance, in a moment of depres-
sion, Mr. Brady summoned Mr. Fairbanks to his office and asked him
if he would be willing to cancel his contract, which still had some time
to run. The suddenness of it appealed to the star, and it was immediately
arranged with great good feeling.
The bond was signed at 2 a. m. and at ten o'clock the same morning
Mr. Fairbanks had been engaged by Cohan & Harris to be starred by
them for the next five years. "This is immense, Doug," said George M.
Cohan in high glee, through the southeast corner of his mouth and the
left nostril. Mr. Cohan reserves the northwest corner and right nostril
for ordinary conversation. "Immense, Doug, I've always wanted to
write a play for you. You're the typical young American and I want to
put you in a play. We'll open Thanksgiving night." It was then late
October. Thanksgiving came without the play, and to kill time the
typical young American went to Cuba and walked across the island with
a comrade, then took a ship for Yucatan and walked from Progreso to
Merida. When he came back the play was still unfinished. "I've got
the young man into the drawing room and can't get him out," .said
George M. While he was still trying to rescue the hero his star put on
a vaudeville sketch called "A Regular Business Man," and after that he
was sent to play the leading role in "Officer 666" in Chicago. It was
while he was in the western city that the late Lewis Waller told him
of a play he once did in London that he thought would be suitable for
Fairbanks. When the play reached the local stage it was called "Haw-
thorne U. S. A." Mr. Cohan eventually succeeded in extricating Broad-
way Jones from the drawing room, for the hero was none other than the
young chewing-gum manufacturer, and, because his new star was occu-
pied, he broke his own vow and returned to the stage. Between "Haw-
thorne U. S. A." and the movies, Mr. Fairbanks appeared in "He Comes
Up Smiling," "The New Henrietta," and the "Show Shop."
Mr. Fairbanks' athletic prowess is the result of years of participa-
tion in every sort of sport. The acquisition of it antedates even that of
his declamatory skill. When he was two years old he escaped from his
nurse, climbed the side of a mountain far enough to get on the roof of
a shed built against the slope and then walked o& the edge of the roof.
When he struck the ground below a great gash was cut in his forehead
and the scar is still plainly visible. It stretches almost across the left
side and is no doubt visible in a close up.
The athletic actor holds an interesting theory about his capacity
to perform physical prowess feats. He believes that the possession of a
certain nervous force that acts at the psychological moment in conjunc-
tion with the muscular force is as much a part of this ability as the mus-
cular force itself. When he is about to undertake a stunt that requires
unusual strength, this nervous force manifests itself in a vocal outburst,
as if he were under the influence of some violent emotion. While he
does not underrate his physical strength, he believes he possesses this
nervous force in such a degree that he can perform feats in excess of
his physical capacity. It is a sort of an athletic version of the Kantian
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philosophy of the will to do. As for climbing over buildings and doing
stunts at high altitude that is possible through absence of fear born of
elevation above the ground.
A few years ago when Mr. Fairbanks was earning eight hundred
dollars a week, he used to think that if he could ever save a hundred
thousand dollars he would retire and never again speak of work. With
the prospect of making many times that amount he knows that he would
Houdini out of the strongest chains that might seek to hold him
from work.
This, then, is the life of Douglas Fairbanks, and through it all his
smile has grown wider until now he possesses the sunniest, most in-
fectious, most celebrated American smile.
Lewis W. Andrews has had all the better successes and distinc-
tions of the able lawyer. He is a member of the law firm of Andrews,
Toland & Andrews, and has been a resident of Los Angeles upwards of
twenty years.
He was born at Mount Vernon, Missouri, April 22, 1869, son of
Lindley M. and Elizabeth W. (Gorton) Andrews, the father a native of
Ohio and the mother of New York. They were married in Shelby
County, Kentucky, June 4, 1860. At the time of the Civil War Lindley
M. Andrews became captain of a volunteer company in the Union Army
and saw most of his army service on the western frontier, especially
around Fort Dodge, Kansas. He was an able lawyer, who in his latei*
years became a minister of the Universalist Church and was well known
as a forceful and eloquent speaker. After filling the pulpit in several
eastern churches in 1888 he came to California and established the Uni-
versalist Church at Santa Paula in Ventura County. He built a fane
church edifice there and was engaged in the congenial duties of the pas-
torate for many years, until his death in 1902. His widow survived him
until May, 1916, just prior to her eightieth birthday. She was a woman
of brilliant mind, an early graduate of Alfred College in New York.
She was prominent in many social ways, was a member of the Daughters
of the American Revolution ; and active in religious, literary, club and
welfare work, and was an artist of more than ordinary ability.
Lewis W. Andrews spent his early years in the several localities
where his parents resided, and received most of his early education in the
public schools of Ohio and Illinois. He graduated B. S. from the sci-
entific department of Northern Illinois Normal School at Dixon, Illinois,
in 1887. His first employment was in the office of Newton Wagon
Works, Batavia, Illinois, and subsequently he spent a year in the audi-
tor's office of the Santa Fe Railway at Topeka, Kansas. He came to
California in 1889, studied law in the office of Hon. B. T. Williams, judge
of the Superior Court of Ventura County, California, and later in the
office of his brothers, prominent lawyers in Ohio, and was admitted to
the California bar October 9, 1894. He was subsequently admitted to
practice in the Federal District and Circuit Courts, and to the Supreme
Court of the United States in February, 1911. From 1895 to 1900 he was
associated in practice with Hon. Thomas O. Toland in Ventura, Cali-
fornia. In 1900 he moved to Los Angeles, where he engaged in practice
for a number of years, being subsequently joined by Judge Toland and
later by his brother, Mr. A. V. Andrews, who for a number of years
have been engaged in practice under the firm name of Andrews, Toland
& Andrews.
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During 1901-02 Mr. Andrews was business manager of the "Los
Angeles Herald." He was the first secretary of the Throop Polytechnic
Institute at Pasadena, and for a time was instructor of history there.
Mr. Andrews has been actively interested in many enterprises contribut-
ing to the development of Los Angeles and Southern California, and has
been identified as officer, director or counsel with a number of the
larger oil and industrial corporations of this section of the state. He is
a member of Bar Associations, the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic
Club, Sierra Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, and Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Universalist
Church, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. For years he
has been prominent in the repubhcan party, being active both in Ventura
and Los Angeles. He worked in many campaigns over Southern Cali-
fornia, and was speaker in the McKinley campaign.
January 21, 1892, Mr. Andrews was married to Miss Abbie Crane
of Ventura County, California. She was born in Ohio, and with her
parents moved to Ventura County in 1883. She attended school there
and also at Oberlin College, Ohio. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the
Friday Morning Club and Ebell Club of Los Angeles. They reside at
274 Andrews Boulevard, in a district with the development of which
Mr. Andrews took a very active part. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have
four children, Ellen L., Horace C, Violet and Lewis W. Jr., the last
two natives of Los Angeles, while the oldest was born at Pasadena and
the son Horace at Ventura. Miss Ellen Andrews, after two years at
Wellesley College, was transferred to and later graduated A. B. from
Leland-Stanford University, and subsequently received the degree Master
of Arts from the University of Southern California. Horace Andrews,
after completing his second year in the Throop College oi Technology
of Pasadena, enlisted in the 472d Engineers and only recently has re-
turned to complete his college course in engineering. Miss Violet An-
drews is a student at Stanford University.
George G. Cr.vne was one of the most interesting pioneers in the
development of the great fruit industry of Southern California. He had
many characteristics of that lovable group of men who devote their
lives to the production of nature's fruits, including the kindly face, the
patient benignant manner and in later years the snow white hair and
beard that seem to belong to the patriarch of the fields and orchards.
Mr. Crane, who died at the venerable age of eighty-four at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis W. Andrews, in Los Angeles on April 10,
1919, was born in Sharon, Medina County, Ohio, July 7 1835 of old
American ancestry. His mother, Louisa (Briggs) Crane, was a sister of
California's pioneer fruit man, George G. Briggs, who came west in
1849 and was first the "melon king" of California and later achieved
historic fame as "father" of the raisin industry in this state.
George G. Crane came to California in 1855 to assist his uncle in
putting out a two hundred acre orchard, and worked in some of the
pioneer orchards of this state for several years. He then went back to
Ohio and in 1859 married Adeline Huntley. She was also a native of
Medina County. They had two children. Amy, widow of E. E. Huntley
of Ventura County, California, and Abbie, wife of Lewis W. Andrews.
Mr. Crane lived for ten years on a farm in Ohio after his marriage,
was also a Missouri farmer, and later engaged in the wholesale fruit
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business with Denver as his headquarters. He also had extensive ex-
perience in the mining region of the Black Hills in Dakota. He returned
to California permanently in 1883, buying a tract of land in Ventura
County, and soon becoming interested in the possibilities offered by the
then infant industry of growing soft-shelled walnuts.
After having made a thorough investigation from all sources then
available Mr. Crane planted upwards of a hundred acres to the best
varieties of walnuts that had been developed. The wisdom of his judg-
ment has been demonstrated by a magnificent grove near Saticoy. Mr.
Crane was a prominent figure in the life and growth of Southern Cali-
fornia for upwards of thirty-five years. He was an early proponent
of the association plan of handling and marketing of fruits and nuts, and
assisted in organizing the Walnut Growers' Association.
He was also interested in various other business enterprises, and al-
together his life was one of substantial service and advantage to South-
ern California.
Fred R. Kellogg has been closely associated with some of the large
and important oil developments in Southern California during the past
eighteen years. A lawyer by training, he has used his knowledge only as
a supplement to his very practical business career.
Mr. Kellogg is a native of Iowa, a son of H. C. and Elizabeth
Kellogg. His father was one of the most prominent and successful
attorneys in Iowa. Fred R. Kellogg was educated in common and high
schools in that state, and for two years read law at Sioux City. Aban-
doning his intention of practicing law, he took up farming in his native
state, and was one of the progressive agriculturists of that great com-
monwealth until he came to Los Angeles in 1902.
Since coming to this state his activities have been largely in the
oil and refining business. In 1906 he incorporated the Kellogg Oil Com-
pany, with himself as president and G. J. Syminton as secretary and
treasurer. This company marketed both crude and distilled oils. Its
facilities were greatly enlarged when they took over the Topping Oil
Plant of the Santa Fe Railroad at Taft, California. In 1911 they con-
solidated with the Los Angeles Oil and Refining Company, thus acquir-
ing a complete refinery at Los Angeles. The new name of the corpora-
tion at this time became the Richfield Oil Company, of which company
Mr. Kellogg is now the president.
In 1915 this company bought the Phoenix Refining Company at
Bakersfiekl, California. At the present time a further extension to their
facilities of a gasoline refining plant at Bakersfiekl has been finished and
is in operation. The company employs altogether about one hundred
and twentv-five people. Mr. Kellogg was one of the founders of the
California Independent Oil Association and was active in the various
war departments, he is the vice-president of the El Segunda Bank of El
Segunda, California, a president of the Buttonlath Manufacturing Com-
pany and a director in several large business enterprises in Los Angeles.
He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and a member of the California Club of Los Angeles. He
is a republican and in rehgion a Congregationalist.
Mr. Kellogg was married at Cherokee, Iowa, in 1895, to Miss Leota
Smith, daughter of Major Robert M. Smith, of the 78th Pennsylvania
Infantry during the Civil war, and a member of the Loyal Legion. Four
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, of whom three are
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living: Margaret, who was active in Red Cross canteen work, is a
graduate of the Marlborough School; H. Chandler, a student at Cor-
vallis, Oregon, and Marion, attending school at Marlborough.
James Oakley, who died at his home at 1247 East Thirty-eighth
Street in Los Angeles in April, 1919, was a pioneer character, not only
of Southern California, where he lived many years and did a great and
important work as a real estate developer and home builder, but also
in the middle west.
He was born in New York City in 1827, of old colonial stock. Most
of his boyhood was spent at Peekskill, New York, where he acquired
his early education. As a 3'oung man he worked with his brother-in-law
in the storage business in New York. Failing health caused him to leave
the East and at the age of twenty-seven he went to Iowa, then a new
state, and acquired government land. He did the heavy work of pioneer-
ing and saw his efforts unite with those of other fellow pioneers in the
rearing of an imposing community in Iowa. A man of good education
and of fine character, he was elected and served twelve years as county
supervisor of Howard County, Iowa, and made his office a means of
constructive and permanent good to the institutions he served.
Mr. Oakley was a resident of Iowa thirty years. Owing to the
severity of the winters he had looked forward and planned a residence
under California skies, and on coming to the state he and his family
lived for a year and a half at Whittier and after that moved to Los
Angeles. At Los Angeles Mr. Oakley acquired some land holdings which
he developed as home sites. He first bought a tract at Twenty-second
and Central and East Adam streets, which he laid out and improved as
the Oakley Home tract and the Oakley Central Avenue tract. Mr.
Oakley built more than two hundred houses in the City of Los Angeles
and properly regarded that business not only as a source of personal
profit but as a real constructive service in the development of the com-
munity. While his interests were extensive, he never had an office
and did his business from his home. He was very deeply interested in
the welfare and improvement of schools, even before he had children
of his own. Mr. Oakley is remembered as a man of sterling character,
and lived a very long and virile life. His memory' was remarkable and
at the time of his death, though ninety-two years of age, he discoursed
easily upon scenes and incidents in politics and affairs which happened
during his boyhood.
At the age of fifty-nine Mr. Oakley married Franc Robinson. Her
parents were among the pioneers of Iowa. Mrs. Oakley and two daugh-
ters survive, Susie and Clemmence. Susie has shown much talent in
painting and was educated at St. Mary's School for Girls at Los Anoeles.
Clemmence is a graduate of the law department of the University of
Southern California and was admitted to the bar the day before she
graduated. On November 21, 1918, she became the wife of Alfred Bettys
of San Bonito.
The Zoellner Quartet, consisting of Antoinette, Amandus, Joseph
Sr. and Joseph Jr., whose musical performances have delighted the in-
tellects and tastes of two continents, are birthright Americans. As mu-
sicians they are of the world, carrying their art wherever chamber music
is loved and appreciated. But about two years ago they realized a long
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growing desire to establish the environment of their private Hves in a
home in Southern CaHfornia, and Los Angeles takes the greatest pride
in claiming The Zoellners in a peculiar sense as its own.
Joseph Zoellner Sr. was born at Brooklyn, New York, February 2,
1862, a son of Johann and Kathrina Zoellner. During his early resi-
dence at Aschaffenburg, Germany, he began to study piano forte and
violin at the Musikschule under Ostermeyer and in 1872 under Hegner.
He also studied violin under Lorenzen and Theodore Jacoby at New
York, and also with Henri Petri at Dresden. From 1882 to 1903 he
directed his own music school in Brooklyn, interrupted by a few Euro-
pean visits, and in 1884 was musical director of the famous Niblo's Gar-
den at New York. From 1907 to 1912 he lived abroad, touring in
Russia in 1908-09, and was head of the violin department of the Ecole
Communale at Etterbek, Brussels, Belgium, from 1909 to 1910. From
1910 to 1912 with his two sons he was a member of the Durant Sym-
phony Orchestra, Brussels.
It was in 1904 that he founded the Zoellner String Quartet, con-
sisting of himself, his daughter and his two sons. Their first public per-
formance was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1904, since which time they
have made close to a thousand appearances here and abroad. More than
any other organization in America they have brought chamber music
close to the people by their well chosen programs and their willingness to
go anywhere and everywhere. Chamber music makes the most difficult
and exacting requirements of any musical composition upon the perform-
ers. It requires four artists with a technique and a feeling for ensemble
which should give the effect of four minds playing as one thought. The
Zoellners as a family has had the unique advantage of living on intimate
terms, playing together daily and thinking and feeling in harmony for
years, so that their artistic expression satisfies the highest critical
standards. That the Zoellners are recognized as artists of great dis-
tinction was only possible through Mr. Zoellner and his three children
being gifted with extraordinary talent, the daughter and two sons being
true musical geniuses.
In 1884 Mr. Joseph Zoellner Sr. married Helena Schneider of Brook-
lyn. Antoinette showed a decided talent for the violin, and from her
fourth year was taught daily by her father. Joseph Jr. began the study
of the piano at six, while Amandus, the other brother, took up the violin
at the age of four and a half. Joseph Jr. later studied the cello, and
when Amandus was seven and a half years old the quartet was founded.
From the beginning the idea of serious work was impressed upon the
children. Perhaps no family has moved its domicile as often as did this
artistic group. From Brooklyn, where Mr. Zoellner hjfs a well-estab-
lished music school, they went abroad. It was Mr. Zoellner's intention
to take charge of a school in Forst near Leipzig. His plans did not ma-
terialize, and the family remained in Dresden for some time, where they
took advantage of the presence of many brilliant artists, whose perform-
ances were in themselves an education to the Zoellner children. A physi-
cian ordered a climatic change for Mr. Zoellner and one of his children,
so back they came to America and to California in 1904, where they
stayed a short time. Mr. Zoellner was not content with anything less
than the highest standard of excellence for his quartette, and another
sacrifice had to be made. Then it was that he took his family to Belgium
in 1907, where advanced studies were begun at the Royal Conservatory,
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Antoinette and Amandus under Henry Van Hecke and Cesar Thomson
in violin, and Joseph Jr. with Gerardy and Gaillard, cello, and piano
with Arthur de Greef and Joseph Wieniawaski. In 1910 Joseph Jr.
graduated with highest honors from the Royal Conservatory as pianist.
Here the Zoellners met all the great artists, also played before critical
audiences, and were recognized as an ensemble of formidable attainments.
Both Van Hecke and Thomson gave them continuous encouragement,
Thomson introducing them to the Brussels public at soirees at his own
home, while Van Hecke, a man of high ideals, was ready with encourage-
ment in times of depression. They remained in Brussels from 1907 to
1912, giving many concerts during that time in that city. They appeared
in Berlin with great success, also in France, and made several concert
tours of Belgium. January 13, 1912, by royal command, they appeared
before the Countess of Flanders, mother of the present King of Belgium,
by whom they were decorated, thus gaining the unique distinction of
being the only Americans ever decorated by the Countess. They played
before the King and Queen of Belgium, Princess Aristarchi, Duchess of
Vendome and many others.
Returning to America, in the fall of 1912, they have since that time
been filling with unqualified success engagements in all the principal
cities of the country. They moved to Los Angeles in April, 1918. In
that month the Zoellners gave three chamber music concerts, and their
reception was so enthusiastic that arrangements were made for a series
of ten concerts in as many weeks. The guarantors who encouraged this
series of concerts are seeking to establish these chamber music evenings
of the Zoellners on a permanent basis for Los Angeles, thereby consider-
ably increasing the standing of Los Angeles as a recognized musical
center.
Clar.\ Kimball Young. No one did more to vitalize the concerted
effort on the part of Californians interested in the preservation and
restoration of the famous old Missions than an adopted daughter of the
state, Clara Kimball Young, famous throughout the world as one of the
greatest stars of the screen. Having for several years made an inti-
mate study of the history of the state, and particularly the California
Missions, she was one of the first prominent personages to respond to
the plan for their restoration, and made her individual role indispensable
through her production of a picture version of the wonderful story of
early California life "For the Soul of Rafael."
The time, energy and intelligence used in this production aroused
an interest that nothing else could — an interest that resulted in the con-
crete effort for the restoration of the Missions. Moreover the story is a
living document of tremendous historical value to California, since it
portrays in the most infinite detail the life, costumes, customs and ac-
tivities of the people contemporaneous with the Missions in an historical-
ly perfect surrounding and atmosphere.
Clara Kimball Young might be said to have been born to the
stage. Her mother, Pauline Maddern Garrett, whose recent death was
mourned by thousands of friends and admirers, was a descendant of the
de Picards, prominent figures of the Court of Napoleon. Her family
had lived in America since the downfall of the great emperor. Mrs.
Kimball spent most of her career on the stage.
Miss Young's father, Edward Marshall Kimball, is a direct de-
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scendant of the greatest actors of history, Sarah Siddons and John
Kemble, both of whom are buried in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Kimball
also has been a favorite actor of the American stage practically all his
life and in recent years has gained fame as a screen artist.
Miss Young is also of a fighting ancestry. In every national war
members of her family have been on the fighting line in support of the
flag. During the World War Clara Kimball Young was one of the first
to respond, closing her studios, leaving her work and joining the colors,
serving as a recruiting sergeant for U. S. Marines until the end of the
war. She is a Comrade of San Francisco Post No. 1 of the American
Legion.
Miss Young was born in Chicago, where she was educated, receiving
her finishing work in St. Xavier's Convent in that city. Her first appear-
ance on the stage was at the age of six weeks, when she was carried
in the arms of her mother in one of the popular plays of the time. In a
few years she was doing child parts with unusual success, and appeared
in her first speaking part at the age of two and a half years. One of the
traditions of theatrical circles is how this tiny bit of humanity memorized
twelve sides of manuscript at the time of her first speaking part. Up
to the age of nine she appeared in many of the famous characterizations
of the day, accumulating a considerable amount of fame and popularity
as well as experience which laid the foundation of her mature career.
Thereafter until about nine years ago Miss Young was one of the best
known young actresses of the American stage, but about 1912, when the
motion picture was beginning to make itself felt as a real vehicle of
modern art, it claimed the attention of Miss Young as it did that of many
other artists. She accepted an offer with the Vitagraph Company, where
her success was immediate and startling in its proportions, and has con-
tinued until today she occupies the very pinnacle of screen fame.
As a star with the Vitagraph Company she made a tour of the
world taking pictures in practically every great country on the globe.
Shortly after leaving this company she became a producer on her own
account. Her natural histrionic ability is combined with a keen business
insight and a knowledge of the intricate details of picture production,
thus readily accounting for her success as a producer. For years a
foremost artist, during the period of the World War she was first a
patriot and then an artist. So distinguished were her services for the
United States and the Allied countries that upon the occasion of the
visit of King Albert of Belgium and Queen Elizabetli to Los Angeles in
1919, she was granted a special audience with these royal personages on
the personal request of King Albert, who thanked her for the aid she
had given the Belgian cause during the war. This presentation was made
by Meredith P. Snyder, mayor of Los Angeles, and was one of the most
interesting events of the visit of King Albert to the city.
Following the war Miss Young engaged in her most recent and by
far her most successful business enterprise in the production of her
special features for the Garson Studios in Los Angeles. In keeping
with her keen interest and appreciation for all things Californian, the
studios at which she now appears are built after the fashion of the old
Missions of California, the main gateway being an exact replica of the
belfry of the San Gabriel Mission, while Miss Young's bungalow dress-
ing room is surrounded by gardens copied from the enclosures of the
famous old California churches.
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Barney Oldfield. Despite the weird limitations of fame, so that
no single celebrity in history is known to all the people all the time, it
is safe to say that the name Barney Oldfield is and has been for years
inevitably linked with the word automobile, constituting a degree of
fame upon which even the vaulting amibition of a Caesar could hardly
aspire.
As a driver and pilot in speed racing Barney Oldfield has been
before the public for over twenty years. His life covers something
more than forty years, and it is appropriate to note some of the early
milestones in his career.
He was born on a farm three miles from Wauseon, Ohio, January
29, 1878, and just eleven years later the family moved to Toledo,
where during 1890-91 he sold newspapers on the streets. During 1892
he worked as waterboy with a railroad section gang, and from his
savings of sixty-five dollars bought his first "Advance" bicycle. During
the next year he was employed as bell boy in the Boody House, and
was diligently practicing on his "whele" and on Decoration Day of 1894
won second place in an eighteen mile road race. During 1895 he was
appearing in a number of events as a bicycle racer, otherwise doing duty
as an elevator boy. In that year he won two medals and a gold watch
in Ohio state championships at Canton, and soon afterward began selling
bicycles. By 1896 he was recognized as the bicycle race champion of
Ohio, and then turned professional, and covered Ohio and Michigan as
traveling sales representative of bicycle manufacturers. The two years
following he campaigned as a racing man in seasons, and during the
winter was employed as salesman and factory worker.
It was in 1899 that Barney Oldfield had his first experience with
a machine driven by motor power. This was a gasoline motorcycle,
and as a pilot he was soon ranked as an expert. During 1900, 1901 and
1902 he was a participant in nearly all the national events as a rider
of bicycles and motorcycles.
Probably tlie most significant event in his entire career came in
1902, when he became associated with Tom Cooper, a former national
bicycle champion, with Henry Ford, an obscure engineer, Oldfield being
the mechanic and later driver of two racing automobiles built from Ford's
designs and financed by Cooper's money. Oldfield was a driver in a
historic race, over a five mile course, with the Ford "999." The place
and date was September 21, 1902, on the Grosse Pointe track at Detroit,
and the time 5:20 set a world record. The next year, 1903, Barney Old-
field drove the "999" at Indianapolis in 0:59 3-5, the first time the minute
mark was ever broken on a one mile circular course.
Since then on virtually every race course in the country Barney
Oldfield has broken records and thrilled throngs, and with seventeen years
of race driving to his credit he well deserves the title of "master driver,"
being the dean of all racers. As one critic has written : "He has seen
three generations of drivers come out, race and either retire or come
to grief by the accident of the terribly dangerous sport. Barney Oldfield
was more than a daredevil. He was a thinker — a student."
He has cut record after record, including the world's non-stop race
record of three hundred one miles at Corono, California, with an aver-
age of 86 1-2 miles an hour. In 1917 he set a record, still unbroken, on
a mile track at St. Louis, and with a series of distances ranging from
one to fifty miles.
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Barney Oldfield recently retired from racing. He has always been
a successful business man and was financially independent long before
he retired from racing. In 1919 he became president of the Oldfield
Tire Company at Cleveland. The history of automobile racing proves
that the great majority of accidents have been due not to faulty mech-
anism, but to tire troubles, and for years Barney Oldfield has been a
student of the tire problem and in order to get his exacting specifica-
tions and experience translated into concrete results, he is now head of a
tire company making a tire according to his personal standards, under
his personal supervision and bearing his name as a personal guarantee.
The unusual progress of The Oldfield Tire Company has been one
of the miracles of the tire industry. The company has been in actual
operation a little more than a year, and in this short time has passed
more than eighty-five per cent of its competitors in volume of business.
To cap the climax, on May 31, 1920, Oldfield Tires equipped the cars
finishing 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 in the Indianapolis SOO-miles speedway race.
The winner of the race finished without a single tire change — the first
time in history that any tire has been able to accomplish this wonderful
feat. Mr. Oldfield considers this victory of his tire as even more signifi-
cant than any of the record-breaking performances in which he par-
ticipated as a driver.
While he spends a great deal of time in Cleveland, he has made
his residence in Los Angeles for ten years. He is a member of the Elks,
and politically a republican. He married in Chicago, Illinois, in Novem-
ber, 1904, Bessy Gooby, a native of Alameda, California. They have
no children.
Edwin H.\rvey Flagg. Los Angeles being the world's chief center
in motion picture production, it is appropriate that it should also be the
home of the largest scenic studio and equipment establishment. That
business or industry is known as the Edward H. Flagg Scenic Company.
Mr. Flagg, its founder, probably knows more of the history of the
technical machinery and processes involved in motion picture than any
living man. A quarter of a century ago he operated one of the old
cinematagraphs, and he has been more or less closely connected with the
development and improvement of the motion picture and more particu-
larly with the theatrical settings for the pictures ever since.
Not long ago Mr. Flagg contributed to The Architect and Engineer
an article on the "Evolution of Architectural and Other Features of
Moving Picture Theaters," an article that was copied in six of New
York's leading magazines. It is both a historical and technical study
of rare interest and value, coming from a foremost authority. He refers
to the first commercial use of motion pictures in 1894, when they were
merely a novelty like "liquid air demonstrations." Their novelty soon
failed to attract, and they practically disappeared from vaudeville and
other shows for a time. Their educational and incomparable entertaining
possibilities had not been dreamed of. He follows their history through
the various stages of development to the modern era marked by great
auditoriums "with large, commodious stages and every conceivable ac-
commodation for comfort, and witnessing in addition to the best moving
pictures either the highest type of dramatic and operatic tabloid produc-
tions or spectacular scenic exhibitions not surpassed by the regular
production theaters."
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Edwin Harvey Flagg was bom at Point Edward, Ontario, Canada,
June 30, 1879, son of John Graham and Anne Belle Flagg. His father
was born on a farm near Morrisburg, Ontario, and was descended from
the prominent Flagg family of Albany, New York. The mother was
born at Northfield, Minnesota.
Edwin Harvey Flagg spent some years of his youth in Chicago,
where he finished his literary education in the Cook County Normal
School. From boyhood he has been in the theatrical business, and at
some time or other has held nearly every position except that of leading
lady. He played small parts in stock companies in Denver, was advance
agent for various companies out of San Francisco, and for a time was"
engaged as assistant scenic artist of the Alcazar Theater of San Francisco.
Leaving there in 1896, at the age of seventeen, he returned to Denver
and took up the then novelty of the moving picture, operating a picture
machine for several months and selling advertising slides. It was many
years after this that moving pictures were taken seriously, and while
he did not long remain in the commercial end of it, he never lost his
interest and as a scenic artist and in other ways has done some of the
real pioneer work of establishing tlie motion picture in its modern popu-
larity. From Denver after his moving picture experience he returned
to Chicago, where he opened a scenic studio in the Marlow Theater in
1898. For several years he was engaged in planning and equipping the-
aters. In 1903 Mr. Flagg took over several theaters in Louisiana, with
headquarters at Alexandria, and operated them in connection with Klaw
& Erlanger for four years.
In order to avail himself of every possible opportunity to study
theatrical architecture and arrangement he went abroad in 1907 and
made detailed studies of the planning and operation of theaters, visiting
every city of importance from Hamburg to Naples. He then crossed
the Mediterranean to Algiers, toured northern Africa, and in May, 1908,
sailed from Gibraltar coming direct to Los Angeles and thus beginning
a connection with this city that has continued for twelve years. Here
he incorporated one of the first scenic studios of the city, and that has
been steadily developed until it is now the largest theater and school stage
equipment establishment in the world, employing more artists and ar-
tisans than are employed in all other scenic studios west of the Missouri
River combined.
More recently Mr. Flagg has been able to give most of his time to
the subject in which he has been most keenly interested, the planning of
theaters, and some of the noted theaters of the country exemplify his
work, prsenting a combination of utility, harmony of desire and color,
comfort and economy with special thought to safeguarding of life in
emergencies. To this work and profession he is earnestly devoted,
and has achieved a recognition that must be highly gratifying.
Thomas J. Fleming, general manager of the California Portland
Cement Company and former county treasurer of Los Angeles County,
has been a resident of Southern California over thirty years. His busi-
ness activities have been of a constructive character, and the success
he has achieved in business has enabled him to follow out constructive
ideas in developing a wonderful country place in the San Jacinto moun-
tains.
Mr. Fleming was bom December 18, 1860, at Ithaca, New York,
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in the same house in which his father was born. His family is of old
and honored American stock, and through his ancestors Mr. Fleming
holds membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. His great-
great-grandfather came to the United States from England in 1700 and
spent the rest of his life as a farmer and planter in Virginia. His great-
grandfather, William, left Virginia early in life, settling near Auburn,
New York, where he developed a place now known as Fleming Hill
and there engaged in farming. The grandfather, Thomas Fleming, a
native of Virginia, spent his mature years as a farmer at Ithaca, New
York
Thomas J. Fleming is a son of James and Jane (Nelson) Fleming.
His father was born at Ithaca in July, 1827, and up to the age of twenty-
one his environment was that of a farm. At that time his father gave
him some money and he crossed the plains to California, taking the south
trail. While en route he was attacked by a grizzly bear, and the injuries
were such as to keep him from active mining, the purpose for which
he had come to California. He contrived another business, conducting a
supply station for teamsters who hauled supplies to the mines. This
business was located near Indian Gulch, in what was then a part of
Fresno, now Merced county, and the original building is still standing
there on the bank of Bear Creek. James Fleming went back to New
York by way of the Panama Canal in 1856, and in 1857 was married at
Ithaca. The rest of his life was spent quietly in farming at Ithaca.
Thomas J. Fleming spent his early life in New York State, atten-
ing grammar and high schools to the age of eighteen. The next three
years he was clerk with the George Small Lumber Company. He resigned
on account of ill health and later came to San Francisco and soon after-
ward to Los Angeles. His first business connection in Los Angeles was
as secretary for the Exchange Block Company. This company built the
first three story brick office buildings in Pasadena. He was with that
concern three years, and then became chief deputy county treasurer under
Colonel Jabez Banbury, and continued under J. DeBarth Shorb, successor
of Colonel Banbury. Mr. Fleming was deputy until appointed county
treasurer to fill an unexpired term, and at the next regular election was
chosen county treasurer, an office he capably filled four years.
On leaving office Mr. Fleming engaged in the building material
business, organizing the Oto Grande Lime and Cement Company, of
which he is still president. Subsequently he took over the management
of the California Portland Cement Company, and is now one of the
chief stockholders, and besides general manager is also secretary and
treasurer of the company. The plant is located at Colton, California.
Mr. Fleming is also a director of the Western California Land Company
and the Hellman Commercial Trust and Savings Bank. During the
war he served as Director of District No. 14 of the War Service Com-
mittee, War Industries Board.
He is a member of the California Club, Midwick Country Club, Los
Angeles Country Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, an Elk
and a Mason, and in politics a republican. He married at Los Angeles
Ella Thompson. Their two children are Margaret, now Mrs. Asa Call,
and Louise, Mrs. Ernest Duque, both of Los Angeles.
It has been the good fortune of Southern California that many
wealthy men have used their wealth in conjunction with good taste to
give increased beauty to the natural charm of the landscape. The place
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selected by Mr. Fleming for his country home is a nine hundred and fifty
acre ranch in the San Jacinto mountains of Riverside County. Besides
his own land he leases four thousand acres from the United States
Government. Much of it is wild and picturesque, the woods and moun-
tain retreats containing many wild cats, gray fox, raccoon, mountain quail
and large gray tree squirrels, besides deer and mountain lions. Mr.
Fleming is now negotiating with the Government to secure official recog-
nition of this as a game refuge. While Mr. Fleming has made some of
his property productive in a commercial way, he regards the chief assets
of the region the work of nature itself. Mr. Fleming is an ardent out-
door man, and a few days or a few weeks in the mountains completely
recreates his energies for business. In his beautiful mountain retreat
he keeps a cook and several Indians employed all the year around.
Just recently his country home was completed. It is known as
"Tahquitz " His familiarity with old Indian legends supplied him with
the name. The story ^oes that an old Indian chieftain of ancient times
became an outlaw, and secluding himself in this valley of the San Jacinto
mountains made periodic raids upon women and children. Finally he
was subdued by the chief of the Saboba Tribe, and his spirit has been
confined by chains in subsequent ages. Whenever he rouses himself
and attempts to break the chains he causes earthquakes. Henceforth
"Tahquitz" is destined to be a name of wide significance applied to one
of the most unique country estates in California.
George Fuller, whose death occurred March 16, 1918, at his beauti-
ful rancho at Buena Vista, gained distinguished position as one of the
representative members of the California bar, served on the bench of the
Superior Court of San Diego County and was retained as counsel for
important corporations. He became widely known as an authority on
corporation and international law, and by his sterling character and high
professional achievement as well as by reason of his exalted patriotism
and civic loyalty he honored the state of his adoption the while he gained
the respect and high regard of the people of California.
Judge Fuller was born in New York City on the 3d of June, 1850.
and was a son of Thomas and Henrietta (Turner) Fuller. He was of
the sixth generation in descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller, who came to
America on the historic ship "Mayflower" and who became one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. Judge Fuller acquired his
early education in the public schools of his native city and in preparation
for his chosen profession he entered the law department of the Uni-
versity of New York, where he applied himself to his studies with char-
acteristic diligence and ambition. In 1871 he went to Madison, capital
of the State of Wisconsin, where he entered the law office of Hon. John
Coit Spooner, who long served as United States Senator from that state.
He continued in the practice of law at Madison until 1878, when he
removed to Providence, Rhode Island, where he became associated with
the well known law firm of Turston & Ripley, and where also he
became a professional associate of Carter Woods and J. Carter Brown.
In 1883 Judge Fuller came to the West and established himself in
practice at Tacoma, Washington, where he built up a representative law
business and where he served as city attorney. In his office in Tacoma
Hon. J. Hamilton Lewis, who later became United States Senator from
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Illinois, initiated his career as a lawyer, and the two continued close
friends until the death of Judge Fuller. In 1887 Judge Fuller came to
California and established his residence at San Diego, where he became
general counsel for the International Company, of Ensenada, Mexico.
Thereafter he continued to serve in this capacity during five administra-
tions of the English syndicate that succeeded the International Company.
He resigned this post in 1905, in which year he came to Los Angeles
and engaged in private practice. He had in the meanwhile passed much
time in Mexico, and incidental to his legal activities in connection with
Mexican corporations he became strongly fortified in the minutiae of
international law. He organized the Mexican Land Colonization Com-
pany and the Lower California Development Company, and served with
characteristic ability as counsel for the important DeBaker estate. In
1899, while a resident of San Diego, Judge Fuller formed a law partner-
ship with Judge Ernest Riall, and this alliance continued five years.
In 1903 he was appointed to the bench of the Superior Court of San
Diego County by Governor Gage to fill out an unexpired term. He
served about eleven months on the bench and was regarded, as vouch-
safed by his former law partner, Judge Riall, one of the best judges
who ever sat on the local bench. He did not appear as a candidate for
the ofiice at the expiration of the term for which he had been appointed.
Judge Fuller retired from the active work of his profession in 1917
and in the meanwhile he had passed much of his time on his fine ranch.
He was a man of fine presence, genial, urbane and kindly, was possessed
of marked literary ability, as shown in both his prose and verse produc-
tions, and in all of the relations of life he so bore himself as to retain
the confidence, respect and good will of his fellow men. His political
allegiance was given to the republican party and he was an effective advo-
cate of its principles. He was long and prominently affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, held membership in the American Bar Association,
the California Bar Association and the Los .A.ngeles County and San
Diego County Bar Associations. For years he was one of the leading
and most popular members of the Cuyamaca Club of San Diego.
At Los Angeles on the 12th of January, 1905. was solemnized the
marriage of Judge Fuller to Mrs. Ysidora F. (Couts) Gray, and she
still maintains her home in this city. By her former marriage to William
D. Gray, a native of Virginia, Mrs. Fuller has one son Chalmers Gray who
was educated at Santa Clara College and who thereafter assumed charge
of his mother's fine ranch property in San Diego County. He entered
the United States Navy when the nation became involved in the World
war, and since the close of the war he has established himself in the
automobile business in Los Angeles. Mrs. Fuller's attractive home is
at 358 Van Ness avenue, and as its popular chatelaine she has made it
the center of distinctly representative social activity in Los Angeles.
Mrs. N.xncy Tuttle Cr.mg. While Los Angeles has a number of
women of exceptional talents and business arts and the professional
fields, Mrs. Craig has the unique distinction of being the only wholesale
grocer, and is the only woman member of the National Wholesale Gro-
cers' Association.
In 1888 the Howell & Craig Company entered the wholesale grocery
field at Los Angeles. Later this was the Craig, Stewart & Company, but
for over nineteen years it has been R. L. Craig & Company. Soon after
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its organization under the present title R. L. Craig died suddenly in 1901,
and the momentum and progress of the firm without its leader would
soon have been lost had not Mrs. Craig, though altogether without ex-
perience, stepped in to take her husband's place. She at once manifested
the ability and wisdom of her business judgment, and for over seventeen
years has directed the aiTairs of the R. L. Craig & Company until it is
now one of the larger concerns of the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Craig is of the fifth generation of her English and Scotch an-
cestors in America and is a typical western woman. She was born in
Iowa, daughter of Owen and Mary (Burns) Tuttle. Her father moved
to Iowa from Ohio, and was a California gold seeker of the days of '49.
Later he returned east, and finally brought his family out to California,
where his widow is still living. Mrs. Craig's mother was one of the early
active advocates of woman suffrage in California, and enjoyed the friend-
ship of two of the nationally known leaders in that cause, Susan B.
Anthony and Julia Ward Howe.
Mrs. Craig accompanied her parents from \'an Buren County, Iowa,
to Santa Cruz County, California, in 1873. She received her early edu-
cation in the public schools of Watsonville, and in 1885 graduated from
the State Normal at San Jose. She became a teacher, and had a great
love for the work, and was peculiarly successful. When she married she
gave up teaching, but her interest in education continued. Notwithstand-
ing the hard work and constant care required in the development of the
R. L. Craig & Company, she consented to run as a candidate for a mem-
ber of the Board of Education of Los Angeles and was elected in 1911
and re-elected, each time by a good majority. Her great interest in
child welfare and her other qualifications made her a most valuable
member of the Board, and she served on numerous committees.
Mrs. Craig is also a member of the Friday Morning Club. In the
management of the wholesale grocery business she has a valuable asset
in her younger brother, Victor H. Tuttle, and also in her son, Robert H.
Craig, who during the war was a member of the Naval Reserves.
C.XROLVNE Wood came to Los Angeles about fifteen years ago on a
vi.sit, and became a permanent resident, widely known for her work in
various artistic fields and as an educator. She recently established the
Westlake Art Studio School, which now represents a complete and
splendid organization of diversified talents under the direction of Mrs.
Wood, for instruction and training in music, drama, languages, dancing
and the best of the fine arts.
Mrs. Wood was born at Gloversville, New York. Her grandfather,
Isaac G. Fox, established the glove industry at Gloversville when the
town was called Stump City. He sent men peddling gloves in covered
wagons over the country before the New York Central Railroad was built.
Mrs. Wood's mother was the oldest of thirteen children, and Mrs. Wood
was one of seven children and the only one now living. iMrs. Wood has
a daughter, Dorothy, who is on the stage. She was trained personally
by Mrs. Wood until she was sixteen, at which time she entered the
Belasco School in New York and later the American Academy of Dra-
matic Art. She has played in many of the largest companies in all the
leading cities of the United States.
When Mrs. Wood was a very young girl she was a member of a
strict Presbyterian family. Her longing for the stage was suppressed
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by her parents, who considered the calling of the stage a blot on the
family. Her father was Thomas McLeish, who was born at Wilmington
of Scotch descent. Mrs. Wood having felt that her own youthful talents
were perverted and suppressed, was determined that her own daughter
should have full horizon of opportunity and choice. At the age of-
three her daughter took part in a little opera and since that time was
trained by her mother for the stage.
Mrs. Wood was educated in a seminary at Gloversville, and has
taught painting, modeling, dramatics, and in founding the Westlake Art
Studios School she has aimed to express the ideals of a lifetime in
artistic instruction and service.
Mrs. Wood nearly lost her life in a fire at the old Van Nuys Hotel,
being trapped in the hotel an hour and a half after other guests had
escaped. Eight years ago she bought a home on Carondelet Street, which
she still owns. The locality of the Westlake is a splendid one, being
opposite the beautiful Westlake Park. She has already acquired a
splendid personnel of talent to preside over the different departments of
her school. The Spanish language teacher, Madam Concha de Rod-
requez, wife of a former consul from Gautemala, is an exile. Hague
Kiusil, the piano teacher, has international fame, is the winner of many
prizes, holding the gold Clemson medal of the American Guild of Or-
ganists for composition : the prize awarded by the Baton Club of Chicago
for the best church anthem ; and the Matinee Musical Club of Los An-
geles prize for the best instrumental solo. He teaches pipe organ and
piano. The vocal teacher is Fred G. Ellis, a prominent baritone, and the
teacher of French is Madam Corte, wife of a consul to Italy.
A. V. Andrews was born in Richland Center, Richland County, Wis-
consin, on October 16, 1861. He is the second son of Lindley M. An-
drews and Elizabeth W. Andrews. He is of Yankee and Quaker stock.
He was educated at the high school at Decatur, Illinois, from which he
graduated in 1881, and at the University of Cincinnati, from the Law
School of which he graduated in 1883. Mr. Andrews also taught school
four terms, and values the training thus gained as of the highest im-
portance. Between terms of teaching he worked on a farm, and ac-
quired that intimate touch with common things and that deep respect
for hard labor so necessary to success.
At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Andrews was admitted to the bar
of Ohio, and immediately began practice at Norwalk, Ohio, in partner-
ship with his older brother, Horace, under the firm name of Andrews
Brothers. For eighteen years this partnership continued and a large
practice was built up. In 1902 Horace Andrews removed to Cleve-
land, where he entered the firm of Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan and
Andrews, and has ever since been in that organization and one of the
leading lawyers of Ohio. A. V. Andrews continued in the practice
of his profession at Norwalk until February, 1914, having associated
with him W. R. Pruner, making the firm name of Andrews and Pruner.
A large and desirable business, both in the trial of cases and in the busi-
ness side of the law was the result of Mr. Andrews' career at the bar
in Ohio. He was also a valued and respected factor as a citizen. He •
became identified with several banks as a director and attorney and
many other successful business enterprises employed him as counsel
and elected him to their directorates. In February, 1914, Mr. Andrews
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was offered a larger field of labor and usefulness in Los Angeles, and
after twenty-nine years of successful practice in one city and one office,
he decided to cast his lot with the West and removed to Los Angeles,
leaving a host of warm friends in northern Ohio. With his brother,
Lewis W. Andrews, and Thomas O. Toland, he formed the law firm of
Andrews, Toland and Andrews, which by the admission in 1920 of Mr.
Paul M. Gregg has become Andrews, Toland, Gregg and Andrews.
Mr. Andrews has devoted much of his time and abilities durins; the
past six years to the litigations and legal affairs of several large and
growing corporations. He is a member of the State Bar Association of
California and of the Los Angeles Bar Association. He has for many
years belonged to the Masonic bodies, including the Blue Lodge, the
Knights Templar and the Scottish Rite degrees. He is a member of the
Los Angeles Athletic Club. In religion he is a Unitarian and a trustee
of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. In politics he is a life-
long republican, but in 1912 followed Roosevelt.
In 1888 Mr. Andrews married Edna G. Hayden, daughter of Hon.
George Hayden, of Medina, (^hio. Of this marriage there have been
born six children, Gertrude H., Marion L., Ruth S., George L., Lewis
M. and A. V., Jr. Since July, 1914, the family home has been at 238
South Andrews Boulevard, Los Angeles.
P.XTRiCK C. MuLQUEENEY has been one of the popular citizens of
Los Angeles for nearly twenty years, has rendered valuable service for
the greater part of that time as deputy tax collector, and is also past
department commander for the State of California of the Spanish War
Veterans.
He was born in County Clare, Ireland, March 11, 1875, son of John
and Mary (Kenney) Mulqueeney, farmers of Ireland and both now
deceased. He was the youngest in the family of eight children, five sons
and three daughters. As a boy he attended the Irish National schools,
and he also had some further education in the public schools of New-
port, Rhode Island, after coming .to this country. For several years
he followed various lines of employment in Newport until at the out-
break of the Spanish-American war in 1898 he volunteered in Company F
of the First Rhode Island Infantry. He was with that command eleven
months, and upon being discharged he took service with the 26th Regular
Infantry, and was with that regiment in the Philippines. He received
his honorable discharge in San Francisco. The Philippine service had
been a severe tax upon his health and strength, and for several months
he recuperated in New Mexico. In 1900 he located in Los Angeles,
and for the past thirteen years has attended to his duties as deputy tax
collector for the county.
Mr. Mulqueeney married Miss Ida T. Pearce, oi Pennsylvania. In
politics he is a republican, is a Fourth Pegree Knight of Columbus, a
member of the Fraternal Brotherhood, and while active in various
fraternities, his special interest has been in the Spanish War Veterans.
General Harrison Gray Otis. The conventional statistics of
biography have little significance when applied to such a man as the late
General Harrison Gray Otis. While he was a fighting figure in some
of the most dramatic events of the nation's life for half a century, those
who knew him best realize that action and achievement were inadequate
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alone to express the strength and quality of his character, and it was
his character that molded the men and events around him and is deserv-
ing of longest memory.
These words of apology are necessary at the outset in attempting to
review briefly a career which deserves a volume and which might well
serve to interpret several of the greatest epochs in our national life.
Harrison Gray Otis was born near Marietta, Ohio, February 10,
1837. and died at Los Angeles July 30, 1917, in his eighty-first year.
His paternal grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. His parents were
Stephen Otis and Sarah Dyar Otis, and he was the youngest of the
sixteen children of his father's two families. The Otis family has been
prominent in New England from colonial times. Prominent members
of the family were James Otis, famous as a Revolutionary patriot and
orator, and the first Harrison Gray Otis was once a United States
senator from Massachusetts.
The father of General Otis migrated from East Poultney, Vermont,
in 1800, at the age of sixteen, and located in the Ohio Company's Pur-
chase at Marietta. Settlement in that locality had begun only about a
dozen years before. The mother of General Otis was a native of Nova
Scotia, and her family were likewise early settlers in southern Ohio.
For several months every winter General Otis attended the common
schools of his native state. At the age of fourteen he left home to learn
the printing trade. During 1856-57 he was a student in Weatherby's
Academy at Lowell, Ohio, and later graduated from Granger's Commer-
cial College at Columbus.
June 25, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 12th Ohio Volunteers.
His army record in brief is as follows : Promoted to first sergeant
March 1, 1862: second lieutenant November 12, 1862; first lieutenant
May 30, 1863; captain July 1, 1864, on which date he was transferred
to the consolidation of the two regiments to the 23rd Ohio Veteran \''olun-
teers and was promoted to captain July 15, 1864; March 13, 1865, he
was brevetted major and lieutenant colonel of volunteers "for gallant
and meritorious services during the war." He was twice wounded and
was honorably mustered out July 26, 1865. Of the 23rd Ohio Veteran
Volunteers Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel and William McKinley
captain. General Harrison Otis was seven times promoted during the
war. He first saw service in the West Virginia campaign in the summer
of 1861, and during his forty-nine months in the army, in the field and
camp, participated in fifteen engagements, including South Mountain,
.\ntietam and many other less well known battles during the terrific
fighting on the soil of old Virginia and in that theatre of the war.
When the war was over General Otis returned to Marietta, Ohio,
and became owner of a small newspaper and printing plant. During
1869-70 he was foreman of the Government printing office at Washing-
ton, and from 1871 to 1876 was chief of a division in the United States
Patent office .
More than forty years before his death he came to Southern Cali-
fornia and from 1876 to 1880 was editor and publisher of the Santa
Barbara Press. In 1879-81 he was principal LTnited States Treasury
agent in charge of the Seal Island of Alaska. In 1882 he was appointed
by the State Department consul for the Samoan Islands, but declined,
:is he did a similar appointment two years later.
August 1, 1882, General Otis became a fourth owner in the Los
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Angeles Times. In October, 1884, he joined in the organization of the
Times-Mirror Company, and was president and general manager from
1886 until his death. He was also a director of the Times-Mirror Printing
and Binding House, president of the Board of Control of the Los Angeles
Suburban Homes Company, a director in the California-Mexico Land
and Cattle Company, president of the Colorado River Land Company
of Mexico, and had many other business interests.
General Otis served in two wars, and for all the ripeness and
maturity of his experience and achievement it must always remain a
source of keen regret to his friends and associates that he could not
live to the end of the present great struggle, in which he was deeply
interested. About his last work aside from the routine duties of his
newspaper was in outlining and developing the details of his "world
embracing plan to end wars,'' a synopsis of which had been published
in the Times a few days before his death.
In 1898 General Otis served in the Spanish-American war and in
1899 in the war to suppress the Filipino insurrection. He was Brigadier
General of Volunteers, having been appointed by President McKinley
in ^lay, 1898, assigned first to the Independent Division of the Expedi-
tonary Forces for the Philippines, and later commanded the First Brigade,
Second Division, Army Corps in the Philippines. He was in command
of this brigade at the Filipino outbreak on February 4, 1899, and was
consequently on the advance line in all the subsequent actions up to and
including the capture of Malolos March 31, 1899. His brigade con-
stituted the principal force in the assault upon and the capture of Caloo-
can on February 10, 1899. March 25, 1899, he was ordered with his
brigade to "pierce the enemy's center" in the first advance from La Loma
Church northwest to Malolos, the temporary Filipino capital. This order
he successfully executed. April 2, 1899. he was relieved of his command
at his own request and returned to the United States, where he wa*
honorably discharged from military service July 2. 1899. He was subse-
quently brevetted Mayor General "for meritorious conduct in action at
Caloocan March 25, 1899."
His military associations were an important source of his keenest
pleasures. He was elected a companion of the ^lilitary Order of the
Loyal Legion in the United States by the Commandery of California
in 1890, and became a member of the Southern California Association
in 1891. He was elected president of the Southern California Associa-
tion November 21, 1903, and in May, 1904,, was elected junior vice
commander of the Commandery of California and became a member of
the Commandery in Chief of the order. In March, 1917, he was again
elected president of the Southern California Association, the office
he held at the time of his death. He was also a charter member of
Stanton Post No. 55, G. A. R., of Roosevelt Camp No. 9, United Spanish
War Veterans, and of Corregidor Post No. 8. Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He was a member of the American Academy of Science, Associated
Press and American Newspaper Publishers Association, Order of Sons
of the American Revolution and many clubs and societies. In September,
1910, he was appointed by the president a commissioner to attend the
Centennial of Mexican Independence.
In politics he was always an old-line, stalwart republican. He
served as official reporter of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1866-67
and was a delegate from Kentucky to the National Republican Conven-
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tion at Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincohi in 1860. He was
also a delegate from the District of Columbia to the Soldiers and Sailors
National Convention at Chicago in 1868, which first nominated General
Grant for the presidency.
At Lowell, Ohio, September 11, 1859, General Otis married Miss
Eliza A. Wetherby, who died November 12, 1904. She was actively
associated with her husband in journalism for more than a quarter of
a century. She was author of a volume of poetry and prose entitled
"California, Where Sets the Sun," published in 1905. General and Mrs.
Otis had a son, Harrison Gray, born in 1861 and died in infancy ; and
also four daughters : Lillian, born September 22, 1864, died in March,
1905; Marian, wife of Harry Chandler; Mabel wife of Franklin Booth;
and Esther, who died in infancy.
It is possible here to note only a few of the tributes paid to General
Otis, who, as the Mayor of Los Angeles said "was an international
figure, one known and respected by many people." Mr. John S.
McGroarty, formerly one of the regular staff writers on the Times, called
him "the master of his craft, the genius of a great establishment, the
foremost newspaper man of his time, and more than even all that, a true
friend whose heart was warm and tender at the core."
Mr. McGroarty also said of him : "He was keen on all fine things
in life. He was passionately fond of poetry. He had an unerring judg-
ment of the real in literature. Indeed, he was himself a stylist in writing,
with a perfect sense of the meaning and delicate phrasings of the English
tongue. His admiration of these same qualities in others was genuine
and generous. He loved pictures and nature. The fields, the hills, the
sea, the flowers and the flocks of the fold were always a deep source
of delight to him.
"But after all I am sure that the two great passions of his life
was the flag of his country and Los Angeles, the city of his adoption.
These two he loved as a strong man loves anything, with a constancy
and fervor beyond all words to tell. When now they shall wrap the
flag around his lifeless clay its stars and bars will never have enfolded
a truer lover. He shed his -blood for it in very gladness and he would
have died for it as gladly."
As the chief medium of his influence and the institution that will
long survive him, it is especially appropriate to note the tribute paid him
by his associate editors of the Times.
"The Times has lost its leader — the indomitable spirit that was equal
to every emergency and never bowed to a passing breeze ; the brave
heart that inspired bravery in the hearts that gladly sought his counsel
followed his direction; the manly man who instinctively knew what was
the right thing to do and did it without fear and without pause.
"In an intercourse of years the Times writers on all subjects became
so saturated with the Otis spirit and the Otis opinions that they seldom
misinterpreted him in dealing with the issues of the day and the actions
of men. And when there was doubt as to the accuracy or propriety of
treatment the article was submitted to 'the General', who instead of
impatientlv throwing the defective screed into the waste basket altered
it a little with a few graphic and apt sentences, struck out a few words,
added a few words and sent it to the composing room and the next
morning tens of thousands of Times readers perused with delight and
unstinted commendation editorials which otherwise might have created
criticism or been passed by as not up to the Times standard.
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"Those who knew best loved him most — loved hiin for what he
was even more than for what he did. His dominant characteristics was
faithfulness — loyalty to principles, loyalty to country, loyalty to friends,
loyalty to all obligations, great or small. In all his splendid career no
man or woman ever charged him with a broken promise, a dishonored
obligation or an unpaid demand.
"His broad and abounding humanity was expressed in hundreds of
kindly and generous deeds. He did not like 'slackers' in business or
politics or in any relation of life. He hated traitors and meanness and
cowardice and did not spare criticism of those who were guilty of it.
For forty-five years he was the husband of a gifted woman, from whom
death separated him for thirteen years, but whom he has now rejoined
in the Great Beyond."
Harry Ch.\ndler, who succeeded the late General Harrison Gray
Otis as president and general manager of the Los Angeles Times, first
entered the service of that great journal about thirty years ago as clerk,
at wages of twelve dollars a week.
Mr. Chandler was born at Elizabeth, New Hampshire, May 17, 1864,
a son of Moses K. and Emma J. Chandler. He came of a substantial
New England family in which it was traditional that the sons should
attend college as a preparation for life. .After graduating from high
school at the ■ age of eighteen he entered Dartmouth College,* but had
been there only two months when ill health forced him to give up his
studies. Then it was that he visited Los .\ngeles for the first time,
and for about a year worked on a neighboring ranch. With his health
apparently restored he reentered Dartmouth College, but in a few months
had to definitely abandon his college career for the health giving climate
of Los Angeles.
It was on his return to the city that he went to work in the offices
of the Los Angeles Times as clerk at twelve dollars a week. Four
months later he was given charge of the collections and was then made
manager'of the mail order department. These promotions all came within
a year. His next responsibility was in charge of the circulation depart-
ment, and in that connection he bought the city routes oi the Herald.
Evening Express and the San Diego Union.
Mr. Chandler became a stockholder in the Los Angeles Tiuws in
1898, and giving it more and more of his abilities he gradually disposed
of the agencies of outside papers, and in 1898 was made assistant general
manager and vice-president of the Times. That was his position until
August 1, 1917, when, following the death of his father-in-law. General
Otis, he became president and general manager. He recently went to
New York to attend the annual meetings of the Associated Press and
American Newspaper Publishers' Association. He is a director of the
last named organization, which is grappling with the paper shortage
problem.
Mr. Chandler married Miss Marion Otis at Los Angeles June 5,
1894. They are the parents of eight children.
Mr. Chandler's extensive business interests are revealed in the list
of organizations in which he is an executive officer. He is president of
the California and Mexico Land and Cattle Company, the Imperial Farm
Land Company, is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tajon
Ranch Syndicate, is president of the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding
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Company, a director of the Suburban Homes Company, president of the
Interurban Water Company, director of the Ramona Ranch Company and
a director of the Carmel Cattle Company. He is a Scottish Rite Mason
and Shriner, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Jonathan
Club and in politics^ is a republican.
B. F. Green is chiefly known to the citizens of Los .\ngeles and
many of the city's annual visitors as active manager and one of the
proprietors of the Auditorium Hotel at Fifth and Olive streets. He is
a very practical hotel man, having been in the business most of his life.
Mr. Green as his chosen friends know is a nephew of the famous
Sells Brothers, who shared. and contributed to the glory of "the days
of real sport" along with P. T. Barnum, Adam Forepaugh and Ringling
Brothers. Mr. Green was born at Columbus, Ohio, where the Sells
family lived for many years, on June 11, 1876, being the only son and
child of B. F. and Alary (Sells) Green. B. F. Green, Sr., who was
born at Hartford, Connecticut, was a mechanic by trade and during
the Civil war was employed in the Colt Rifle Shops in the east. For
twenty years he was agent at Columbus for the Singer Sewing Machine
Company, and prior to his death was in the real estate business. He
died when about sixty-five years of age. He was a member of the Lodge
and Encampment of the IndeiJendent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1875
he married at Columbus Mary Sells, who was a native of Cleveland.
Ohio. Her brothers, the famous circus men, Ephraim, x\llen, Lewis and
Peter Sells, are all now deceased. There was also a fifth brother, Heman
Sells, whom the jiublic never heard of. since he died as a prisoner of
war at Andersonville during the Civil war. Mrs. M. Sells Green, who
is joint proprietor with her son of the Auditorium Hotel, is one of four
living sisters who today represent that generation of the Sells family.
Her father Peter Sells and her mother were very strict church people
and strong prohibitionists and would not permit their boys even to attend
a circus or play cards. As is often the case such repression breeds an
uncontrollable desire for the very thing prohibited, and the Sells boj's
found their ruling passion and work as circus men, and in that capacity
aflforded pleasure to a whole generation of other boys, not to speak of
grown men and women. Peter Sells the elder was a fruit grower, and
raised and shipped berries on a large scale. He lived both at Columbus
and Cleveland. Part of the City of Cohimlius is now located on the
grounds where he once grew berries, .\fter selling; that land he moved
to Cleveland and spent his last days in Columbus. Mrs. M. S. Green is
next to the youngest of her father's children. Her living sisters are :
Mrs. Rachel Colby, of Columbus ; Mrs. Almenia Holt, of Cleveland, and
Mrs. Rebecca F. Barrett, of Los Angeles. Her youngest sister, Mrs.
Edward West, died at Hollywood, California, in 1918, and another sister,
Mrs. William Cobb, died in Cleveland in 1904.
Her brothers for many years conducted an independent organization
known as Sells Brothers, and later became allied with the Forepaugh
interests. Her brothers Lewis and Peter were the active show men.
Mr. B. F. Green, who has never married, was educated in the
]}ublic schools of Columbus, graduating from the high school with the
class of 1892. He also attended the Ohio State University, and had his
early business experience as an employe of Green, Joyce & Co'mpany,
wholesale dry goods merchants. During 1895-96-97 and 1898 he was
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associated with his parents in operating the Normandie Hotel at Colum-
bus. During 1900-02 he was steward and purchasing ageni for the
Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus, and thus had some experience in the
circus business himself. Later he became a copartner of the Lenox Hotel
at Columbus, and in 1910 he and his mother came to Los Angeles and
took a lease on the Auditorium Hotel. This handsome structure had
just been completed and Mrs. Green and her son opened its service to
the public in May, 1911. The Auditorium Hotel is a high class and
modern hotel and has adapted its service as especially desirable for ladies
traveling alone.
Mr. Green is a member of the Masonic bodies of Columbus, is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and Knight Templar Mason and a
member of Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles.
He is a member of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association of the
United States and Canada, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce and Automobile Club of Southern California.
Robert C. Gillis is a Canadian by birth, and came to California and
established his home at Santa Monica in 1887. Since then a long list of
achievements has been linked with his name. For many years he has
been an intimate business associate of General ^1. H. Sherman and E. P.
Clark in the great railway and electric development of Southern Cali-
fornia. Development work in the best sense of the phrase might be
regarded as the one dominating aim and purpose in the life of Mr.
Gillis. Waste land, unproductive water power and other unutilized
resources have always presented themselves to him as a problem to be
solved in the interest of civilization, and so far as the great southwest
is concerned probably no man has done more to create a favorable solution
of such problems than Mr. Gillis.
He was born at Moncton, New Brunswick, July 11, 1863, son of
Robert and Jean (Morrison) Gillis. Much of his early life was spent
in Nova Scotia, acquiring his education in the cities of Halifax and
Picton. He also gained his first business experience in Canada.
Wlien he removed to California and located af Santa Monica in
1887 Mr. Gillis found his opportunities in developing and promoting the
growth of Santa Monica, and deserves an important share of credit for
the^present condition of that beautiful suburb.
In 1902 he took an active part in the affairs of the Los Angeles
.Pacific Railway Company, owners and operators of local and interurban
electric lines. He negotiated the sale of the system to the Southern Pacific
interests in 1905. When the Pacific Electric Railway Company was
absorbed by the Pacific Electric Company, the Harriman corporation, Mr.
Gillis was made a director of the new company and has since been active
in its management. Reference has been made to his active associations
for many years with General Sherman and Mr. Clark, the men generally
accorded the chief responsibility for the development of the great network
of interurban and electric lines in Southern California. Mr. Gillis is also
associated with John D. Spreckels in important railway and transportation
properties at San Diego, and is a member of the executive committee of
the Spreckels Securities Companies.
The greater part of 1909, 1910 and 1911 Mr. Gillis spent in Oregon
in personal charge of the construction and completion of the railroads and
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power plants of the Mount Hood Railway & Power Company and the
Mason Construction Company, which he and E. P. Clark and Arthur
H. Fleming of Pasadena had purchased. He also had some other business
enterprises at Portland.
Mr. Gillis is a large land owner and has wielded a great influence
in several land development projects. Many of his investments are
in the western states of Mexico. He is president of the Santa Monica
Mountain Park Company, owning thousands of acres of land in the
vicinity of Santa Monica, and also the Madera Land Company, now
developing a large area of fertile and in Madera County. Other impor-
tant business enterprises with which Mr. Gillis is ofificially associated are
the Iron Chief Mining Company, the Los Angeles Union Terminal Com-
pany and the Santa Monica Land and Water Company, and is vice-
president of the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company.
Mr. Gillis, whose offices are in the Investment Building, at Eighth
and South Broadway, Los Angeles, is a member of the Los Angeles
Country Club, Brentwood Country Club, California Club, Chamber of
Commerce, the Athletic Club, the Automobile Club of Southern Califor-
nia, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order.
At Santa Monica October 1, 1889, he married Frances L. Lindsay,
daughter of Congressman Stephen D. Lindsay, of Maine. They have
three children, Adelaide S., Dorothy and Lindsay.
H.VRRY R. Cowan, of Los Angeles, has become well known through-
out Southern California for his work in real estate development, the
reclamation and improvement of farm and ranch lands. That has been
his specialty, and it is not too much to say that he and his organization
have made available thousands of acres for permanent home owning
settlers.
Mr. Cowan was born at Rock ford, Illinois, January 26, 1876, son
of William and Mary (Ruford) Cowan. In 1883 his parents removed
to Toronto, Canada, where Mr. Cowan attended public schools to the
age of eighteen. In the meantime he worked on his father's farm and
thus had some knowledge of farming in addition to being a very practical
and widely experienced business man. After leaving home he was em-
ployed a year in a large glove manufacturing concern at Gloversville,
New York. For another five years he was connected with the Malone
Woolen Mills at Malone, New York. He then removed to Chicago and
was engaged in the real estate business there until 1904, when he trans-
ferred his operations to Los Angeles and Southern California.
The first important deal in which he figured was as a partner with
E. L. Crenshaw in putting on the market a subdivision known as the
Benton Terrace, comprising a hundred twenty-five lots. However, for
the greater part he has operated alone and has specialized in farm lands.
He has bought large tracts of unimproved and unproductive lands and
has employed a large amount of capital in getting the land in a productive
condition, improving it with buildings and placing all proper facilities
ready for the buyer and settler. He now owns a number of large ranches
under cultivation and employs a staff of several hundred men at work
all the time on his development projects. Mr. Cowan organized the
Imperial Water Company Number 2 in the Imperial Valley. This com-
pany supplies water for irrigation purposes south of Holtville to the
Mexican iDorder. The tract available for the water is about twelve thou-
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sand acres. Mr. Cowan is president of the water company. He is also
president of the Santa Fe Land Company.
Mr. Cowan is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a republican.
September 2, 1904, at Los Angeles, he married Edna Taylor. They
have two children, Gwendolyn, born in 1908 and now in the public
schools, and Virginia, born in 1914.
Neil Steere McCarthy was born in Phoenix, Arizona, May 6,
1888, a son of James and Mary (Enright) McCarthy. He graduated
from the Phoenix High School in 1907. He studied law in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, graduating LL. B. in 1910. His active professional
work was begun in Los Angeles in the law offices of James & Smith.
Mr. McCarthy is Los Angeles counsel for the Famous Players Laskey
Corporation, the Gaumont Theatres and other theatrical and motion
picture interests, and is attorney for and a director in the Commercial
National Bank of Los Angeles.
He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, is a member of the
Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce, votes inde-
pendently in politics, and is a member of the Catholic Church. At
Binghamton, New ork, Septemljer 23, 1912, he married Miss Mar-
guerite Meade Gilbert. They have four children: Marjorie Ellen, born
in 1914; Rosemary Elizabeth, born in 1915; Neil Dillon, born in 1917,
and Kathleen Cecilia, born in 1919.
G. Carlos Saukui. M. 1). In a little cottage nestled in an orange
grove on East Seventh Street, in the city of Los Angeles, the fifth child
of Francisco and Magdalena \V. de Sabichi came, on a wintry morning
November 4, 1878. Amid these happy surroundings he spent his youth.
He received his early training at the primary schools of Los Angeles,
which was later enriched by two degrees obtained from St. Vincent's
College.
Early in his youth the desire to ])ursue the study of medicine came
to him, and after leaving St. \'incent"s College.he entered the University of
California at Berkeley. \\'hile there he made an enviable collegiate rec-
ord, and also made history as an athlete, being a member of the football
squad which was the first to score against Stanford University, 30-0.
During his college career he became a charter member of the Beta Xi
of Kappa Sigma. With this excellent classical and scientific training
he entered the medical department of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, where the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on him
in June, 1904. His opportunity for experience in the practice of
medicine was enriched by his service at the Los Angeles County Hos-
pital and at the Pacific Branch of the National Soldiers' Home through
an appointment from Brigadier-General La Grange.
During the year 1906, we find the young physician pursuing the
study of clinical medicine and surgery at Columbia University of New
York. Returning from New York he took charge of the medical de-
l^artment of the Yellow Aster Mining Company, where he enjoyed an
enviable record in his chosen profession.
Doctor Sabichi saw great possibilities in the City of Bakersfield,
where he has witnessed the great agricultural development of the San
Joaquin Valley and the rapid progress of the petroleum industry. The
development of these natural resources afforded him unusual opportuni-
ties to become an investor in numerous oil corporations.
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The past eleven years have found the doctor practicing in Bakers-
field, where he has won several distinctive appointments — as president of
the San Joaquin Hospital, consulting surgeon of the Sante Fe Railroad
and during the European War an appointment by Governor Stevens as
examiner on the exemption boards No. 1 and 2.
Aside from his professional career he finds time to devote to club
life and outdoor sports as golfing and hunting.
William Wolfskill. Of that notable group of American pioneers
who arrived in Los Angeles about the year 1830 and afterward became
permanent and influential citizens of this then almost exclusively Spanish
speaking province, one of the most conspicuous was William Wolfskill.
His biography in fact might properly grace the annals of American path-
finders, backwoodsmen and pioneers who opened up and began the de-
velopment of the great west from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
Coast.
William Wolfskill was born in Madison County, Kentucky, March
20, 1798, son of Joseph and Sarah (Reid) Wolfskill. His grandfather,
Joseph Wolfskill, was a native of Germany, and lived in Philadelphia, in
North Carolina, and afterward moved to Kentucky. The maternal
grandfather, John Reid, was a native of Ireland, and was taken a prisoner
by the British at Charleston in the Revolutionary war, and also later
settled in Kentucky. In 1809 the Wolfskill family moved to Missouri
and settled at Boone's Lick in Howard County. They and the other
settlers there were exposed to much danger from hostile Indians during
the' period of the War of 1812. In 1815 William Wolfskill went to
Kentucky to attend school. In 1822, at the age of twenty-four, his
career of adventure began, and less than ten years later he had become
permanently identified with California.
He was one of the early voyagers over the famous Santa Fe trail,
spending the summer of 1822 in that far southwestern community. Then
ensued a period of adventure as a trapper and hunter along the Rio
Grande Valley, containing many memorable incidents, though not re-
lated here, since they were no part of his California experience. For
five or six years William Wolfskill operated as a trapper, hunter and
trader in the Mexican country, then including Texas, and various south-
ern states. In 1828 he finally left his Missouri home, once more bound
for Santa Fe. In the summer of 1830 he became leader of a com-
pany of about twenty-two men, whom he had raised as an expedition to
California to hunt beaver. Mr. Wolfskill arrived with this party at
Los Angeles in February, 1831. He and his associates built a schooner
and made one voyage hunting otter, though with indififerent success.
Mr. Wolfskill then directed his attention to vineyarding and general
horticulture, and his enterprise in this line proved the foundation of his
greatest success and also an inestimable benefit to what is now one of
the greatest sources of wealth in California. In March, 1838, he bought
and moved to his homestead vineyard, afterward known as the Wolf-
skill orchard tract. Subsequently the growth of the city compelled the
dividing of these extensive orchards, and that land is now practically
in the heart of Los Angeles.
In 1841 William Wolfskill planted an orange orchard, the second
in California, the first being planted by the Mission Friars at San Gabriel.
In the same year he and his brother John prospected over northern Cali-
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fornia, and as a result of subsequent negotiations acquired a grant of four
square leagues in what is now Yolo and Solano counties. This land
was developed as a ranch, with John Wolfskill in charge. Altogether
there were five Wolfskill brothers who were California pioneers, and
the last survivor of them was Milton Wolfskill of Los Angeles.
William Wolfskill, who died October 3, 1866, married Magdalena,
daughter of Don Jose Ygnacio Lugo and Dona Rafaela Romero Luga
of Santa Barbara in January, 1841. She died in 1862. They were the
parents of six children, Juana, the oldest daughter, dying in 1863, while
Louis, the youngest son, died in 1884. One son was Joseph W. Wolfskill.
A daughter was Mrs. Francisca W. de Shepherd. The other daughter
was Mrs. Magdalena W. de Sabichi, wife of the late Frank or Francisco
Sabichi, whose life as a pioneer resident of Los Angeles has been else-
where described.
From a biography of William Wolfskill read some years ago before
the Los Angeles Historical Society, the following sentences constituting
a character sketch are appropriately taken :
"William Wolfskill, who was of German-Irish ancestry, had a strong
physical constitution and an immense amount of vital energy. During
his long and useful life he saw a great deal of the world and picked up
not a little of hard, sound sense. He was an extensive reader, and
being possessed of a wonderfully retentive memory he gained a store
of information on most subjects of practical human interest that would
not have shamed those who have had a more liberal education and who
may have passed their lives with books, instead of on the frontier. He
was a man of no mere professions ; what he was, he was, without any
pretense.
"In religion he believed in the teachings of the New Testament,
and at the last he received the consolations of the Roman Catholic Church.
But in all things he loved those prime qualities of human character,
simplicity and sincerity. He was of that large number of whom there
are some in all churches, and more in the great church of outsiders, who
believe that a loyal, honest heart and a. good life are the best prepara-
tion for death. He was disposed to as great an extent as any man
whom I ever knew to always place a charitable construction on the acts
and words and motives of others. He believed (and acted as though
he believed) that there is no room in this world for malice.
"William Wolfskill was one of the very few Americans or foreigners
who came to California in the early times, who never, as I firmly believe,
advised the native Californians to their hurt or took advantage of the
lack of knowledge of the latter of American law or of the English lan-
guage to benefit themselves at the expense of the Californians. As a
consequence, the names of 'Don Guillermo' Wolfskill and a very few
other Americans of the older time, were almost worshipped by the former
generation of "Hijos del pais' who spoke only the Spanish language and
who, therefore, in many, many important matters needed honest and
disinterested advice.
"Mr. Wolfskill was one of the most sociable of men. In his inter-
course with others he was direct, and sometimes blunt and brusque; but
in language of Lamartine, 'bluntness is the etiquette of sincerity.' In
reality he had one of the kindest of hearts. Finally, in honesty, and in
most of the sterling qualities that are accounted the base of true man-
hood, he had few superiors."
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John Reid Wolfskill, who was a younger brother of Wilham
Wolfskin, the pioneer American settler, vineyardist and horticulturist
of Los Angeles, also had a distinction in California annals as perhaps
the hrst American settler in the Sacramento Valley.
He was born near Richmond, Kentucky, September 16, 1804, and
grew up at the family home in Booneville, Howard County, Missouri.
In 1828 he followed his brother William over the trail to Santa Fe, and
as a trader and livestock man he had many varied experiences in the
southwestern country. Finally, in 1836, Indians stole from him a large
drove of mules, and he was left almost naked and practically bankrupt.
On being furnished an outfit by a Santa Fe trader, he started for Cali-
fornia, and arrived in Los Angeles in February, 1838. He was heartily
received when he made himself known as a brother of William Wolf-
skill, who was a man in high favor among Southern Californians. John
Wolfskill in 1840 prospected over the public lands in the North, and
after much opposition and many delays in his negotiations with General
Vallejo, the military commandante, a grant of four leagues, about seven-
teen thousand acres, was finally approved by the Governor to William
and John Wolfskill. This land was located on Puta Creek, in what is
now Yolo and Solano counties. In 1842 John Wolfskill occupied the
new rancho, and began stocking it, and for the first two years lived
without a building of any kind. While William Wolfskill had acquired
citizenship as a Mexican, John Wolfskill was looked upon as a foreigner,
and almost tc the end of the Mexican regime in California had to sufifer
inconveniences and loss through the delays and injustices of the Mexican
system.
In 1851 John Wolfskill began cultivating a few crops on his ranch,
planting an orchard and vineyard. However, the rancho was devoted
to stock raising mainly, and very profitably at that, during the early
mining period until the sixties. After that much of the domain was
fenced and the area was given over to the growing of wheat. About
that time John and William Wolfskill divided their interests, each taking
one-half. In some years the total amount of grain raised on the John
Wolfskill ranch aggregated eighty thousand sacks. Still later fruit cul-
ture became the principal feature of the ranch, and finally a railroad was
built across the land not far from John Wolfskill's old home.
In 1858 John Wolfskill married a daughter of Major Stephen
Cooper. Major Cooper was an historical character in the early annals
of California, and with his daughter had come West with the ill-fated
Donner party, but left it and reached safety. John Wolfskill had one
son, Edward. His three daughters were: Melinda, who married Clay
Goodyear; Jennie, who married Frank Bonney ; and Frances, who mar-
ried Samuel Taylor.
Albert John Pi charts secretary of the Harris & Frank clothing
house for men, is one of the distinctive business men of Los Angeles,
and has been very prominent in organizing and developing an efiicient
credit association for the city and is a real leader among local business
men and citizens generally.
Mr. Pickarts was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 31, 1861,
a son of John and Thekla (Wey) Pickarts. He acquired his grammar
schooling and also attended high school at Leavenworth, finishing his
education with a business college course. At the age of eighteen he
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went to work as a bookkeeper in a hardware house. A year later he
became associated with his father in a local manufacturing business and
subsequently was made junior partner. The business was sold in 1893,
but Albert J. remained with the new firm under contract for three years,
giving the new management tne benefit of his experience and knowledge
of the enterprise.
Leaving Leavenworth in April, 1896, he had some varied exper-
ience in different parts of the west, eventually locating at Deming, New
Mexico, being in the wholesale and retail grocery business until 1902. In
August of the latter year he came to Los Angeles and for several years
was associated with the wholesale grocery firm of Barkley-Stetson-
Preston Company.
Mr. Pickarts became interested in the clothing house of Harris &
Frank in August, 1905, and has given that firm the benefit of his execu-
tive services as secretary. This is one of the city's leading clothing stores
for men. It is one of the oldest business houses of the city, founded in
1856 by Leopold Harris, a pioneer business man. His first store was
at Temple and Spring, and he saw his enterprise grow steadily, seek new
quarters from time to time, gradually moving south until it found its
present location at 437 South Spring. This is a very attractive site, and
the store is handsomely arranged as to lighting and equipment for a
perfectly appointed service to its patrons.
Mr. Pickarts had been with the Harris & Frank firm only a short
time when he realized that the local merchants were doing business
with a handicap imposed by the lack of proper credit accommodations.
His personal interest he succeeded in extending to other business men.
and out of this grew the first real credit association known as the Asso-
ciated Retail Credit Men of Los Angeles. Air. Pickarts served as the
second president of the organization. He was also vice-president of the
Retail Credit Men's National Association. He deserves much credit for
the organization known as the Retail Merchants Credit Association, owned
and operated entirely by Los Angeles merchants, and has served as
secretary of the association three terms, two terms as president, and
is now a director. The R. M. C. A. now employs more than thirty clerks
to look after the constantly increasing business.
Mr. Pickarts is a fine personal type of the able business man, tall,
of splendid address, perfect physique, and his head is crowned with white
hair. He is a member of no clubs but is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons.
Mr. Pickarts has been twice married. His first wife was Minta
Logue, of Leavenworth, who died in May, 1915. August 25, 1917,
Mr. Pickarts married Miss Rosa E. Hopkins. Mrs. Pickarts was very
active in Los Angeles in behalf of the various war auxiliary movements,
particularly the Red Cross. Mr. Pickarts has two sons, Walter A., born
in 1886, and Harold F., born in 1890. Walter is secretary and manager
of a large cigar business at Los Angeles. He married Blanche Mooney
and has two children, Frances, born in 1907, and Albert, born in 1913.
Harold Pickarts, an employe of the Standard Oil Company married Mar-
garet Fowler of Los Angeles and their two children are Jack, born in
1911, and Robert, bom in 1913.
M.\DAM PiCHE WooDE. The early years of her experience as a
worker and instructor in the field of Fine Arts Madam Woode has
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turned to good account in commercial lines at Los Angeles, where she
has two handsome and exclusive shops for French millinery.
She is the daughter of French parents who immigrated to this
country from St. Ranei, and were the only ones of either family to
become Americans. Her father was a man of excellent culture and spent
many years of his life at Stillwater, Minnesota.
The daughter was educated in Minnesota and for six years was a
student of art, taking her training in the School of Fine Arts at St.
Paul, also studying under Professor Alick in Chicago, Professors Lyckof
and Bichoff in Detroit, and for a time was also engaged in study in
New York. She worked entirely from life and nature and did many
landscapes and modeled in clay
After several years of work as a teacher she gave up her art and
entered the business world. Her motto was "success depends upon
integrity, ability and good health," and she was blessed with all three.
She opened a French millinery shop at 1721 West Seventh Street,
and from her success was able to open another shop at the very desirable
location in the heart of the finest shopping district, at 704 West Seventh
Street. Both shops are artistic in their environments as well as their
products, and Mrs. Woode enjoys the patronage of an exclusive clientele.
Gertrude Cohen. Wliile she completed her education abroad and
gained her first triumphs as an artist in Europe, Gertrude Cohen is a
native daughter of Southern California, and the mature achievements
she lias expressed at the piano have largely been in Los Angeles, where
she received her earliest training.
Her father, Isaac Cohen, who came to California in 1868, is one of
the oldest residents of Los Angeles. A native of Germany, he came
to the United States and joined some friends from the Fatherland in
Kentucky. There he made the acquaintance of several young men who
had relatives in San Francisco, and finally a party came out to Cali-
fornia.
In San Francisco on May 2, 1887, he married Miss Emma Stance!,
also a native of Germany. After living at Los Angeles for several years
he was for five years connected with the Internal Revenue Office all
along the coast. Isaac Cohen removed to Redondo, where he servd as
mayor two years, and during a residence at Anaheim was similarly
honored with the office of mayor two years. Since returning to Los
Angeles he has been engaged in the clothing business and is the oldest
clothing merchant today in Los Angeles. Isaac Cohen and wife have
three children, Gertrude, Herbert and George. Herbert after leaving
school went to work for his father in the clothing business, and in 1914
established a stock of furniture. When the war broke out he sold his
business, enlisted in the infantry, but subsequently was transferred to
the spruce department of the aeroplane division, and was on duty at a
camp in Oregon. After the close of the war he returned to Los Angeles
and has resumed business at 137 South Spring Street. He is a native
son and a thirty-second degree Mason. George Cohen was attending
the University of California at Berkeley and was president of the Senior
Class, 1917, when war was declared, enlisted in the infantry, received a
second lieutenant's commission at the Officers Training Camp at The
Presidio, and subsequently was at several different training camps and
in different departments and was frequently promoted. At the end of
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the two years he was a captain in the Quartermaster's Corps at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas, being then only twenty-two years of age. He was
on the water enroute to France when the Armistice was signed. He is at
this writing (1920) a law student at Harvard University and was the
winner of the Camot Medal for debating.
Gertrude Cohen began the study of piano at home at the age of seven
years. One of her early instructors was Mr. Wilhartitz, and subsequently
she was a pupil of Professor W. F. Chase of Los Angeles. Paderewski
on one of his visits to Los Angeles heard her play and has declared
that she was one of the most talented young pianists he ever listened to.
It was at his suggestion that she carried on a professional career and
went abroad to study. At the age of fifteen, with her mother as chaperon,
she went to Berlin and studied with Leschetizky at Vienna for three
years, securing her introduction to that famous master through Pade-
rewski. At Berlin she studied one year under Leopold Godowsky. She
•was also a pupil of Harold Bauer at Paris. Leschetizky said of her:
""Miss Gertrude Cohen has studied With me for several years, and by
her noble ambition and talent has attained a height in the art of piano
playing which entitles her both in concert work as well as teaching to
the greatest success."
Later, at Budapest, Miss Cohen appeared in concert with such
artists as Frida Hempel, Henrich Knote and others of like distinction.
She visited Paderewski at his home on Lake Geneva. After many suc-
cessful concert appearances in Europe she returned to America and
made a successful debut in New York in a recital programme which
displayed to the entire satisfaction of the exacting critics of the metropolis
the exceptional gifts which have been bestowed upon her. It is only
an artist of true distinction who could earn such discriminating and posi-
tive expressions of praise as have been paid Miss Cohen by critics both
at home and abroad.
In this country she accepted concert engagements under the manage-
ment of Wolfsohn Musical Bureau and the L. E. Behymer Agency. She
■also accepted an invitation to Washington to play for a Musical Tea at
the White House for Mrs. Taft. Since her return to Los Angeles Miss
'Cohen has played with orchestra as well as in concert and recital under
the auspices of schools, clubs and at many private musicales. She is a
member of the Monday Musical and the Dominant Club.
Wesley Wilbur Beckett, M. D. While Los Angeles has been his
home and the center of his work for over thirty years, the well deserved
fame of Dr. Beckett as a physician and surgeon has brought him many
state-wide and national distinctions. The profession generally recog-
nizes him as a most scholarly man of medicine, an able and original
worker in surgery, and a leader who has always sought the best interests
of the profession, both as an individual and as a teacher and officer
in medical organizations.
Dr. Beckett has spent most of his life in Southern California, but
was born in Portland, Oregon, May 31, 1857. His parents were Lemuel
D. and Sarah Springer (Chew) Beckett. His father was an Oregon
pioneer and served as the first justice of the peace at Portland.
Dr. Beckett was educated in the public schools of California, and
for over six years was a teacher in San Luis Obispo county. In the
spring of 1888 he received his M. D. degree from the Los Angeles
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Medical Department of the University of Southern California, and for
one year did post-graduate work in the Post Graduate Hospital of New-
York City. He then returned to Los Angeles, and has been busied with
his professional duties here for thirty years. Dr. Beckett is now and
for some years past has been vice-president, a director and medical
director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has held
the chair of Professor of Gynecology and Surgery in the Los Angeles
Medical Department of the University of California and is treasurer and
director of the California Hospital.
Dr. Beckett holds the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Re-
serve Corps of the United States Army, having been appointed to that
position by President Taft in the spring of 1911. Various professional
bodies have honored him with the offices of president, including the
California State Medical Society, the Southern California Medical So-
ciety, Los Angeles County Medical Society and the Los Angeles Clinical
and Pathological Society. He is a member of the American Medical
Association, the Pacific Association of Railway Surgeons and the Asso-
ciation of Life Insurance Medical Directors. He is also a trustee of the
University of Southern California, and in 1901-02 was a member of the
Los Angeles City Board of Health.
While all these connections would seem to indicate an ample fulfill-
ment of any man's ambition for useful work. Dr. Beckett has also been
prominent in business affairs. He has served as director of the Cali-
fornia Delta Farms Company, the Seaside Water Company, the Sinaloa
Land and Water Company, the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, the
Central Business Properties of Los Angeles.
Dr. Beckett is a republican, a Methodist, a Knight Templar Mason
and a member of the California and Athletic Clubs of Los Angeles and
the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. January 1, 1882, he married Miss
Iowa Archer, of San Luis Obispo. They have two sons, Wilbur Archer
and Frauds H. Wilbur Archer Beckett received his M. D. degree in
June, 1919. He then took a post-graduate course in New York City.
He is now located in Los Angeles practising his chosen profession.
Francis H. Beckett resides in Los Angeles and is associated with the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California.
John M. Bowen came to Los Angeles m 1912, while with the
United States Secret Service, but for the past five years has been busily
engaged in private practice as a lawyer, and has formed many influential
connections with the law and civic affairs of this city.
He is a native of Old New England, born at Boston September 10,
1881, and comes of a prominent family there, son of Marcus A and
Josephine H. (Lane) Bowen. Marcus A. Bowen, who died at Boston
in 1916, was a graduate A. B. from Yale University in 1872, began
railroading with the Old Colony Railway, and for over forty years was
connected with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-
pany. He was fourth vice-president of that corporation at the time of
his death. He was seventy-two when he died. His wife also died in
Boston, in 1907, and both were natives of that city. Their family con-
sisted of three sons and three daughters. One brother and two sisters
are still living, all but John M. Bowen residents of the east. Mr.
Bowen's brother was in the ambulance service with a group of men
trained at Harvard University, was later in the Aviation Corps, and for
his work overseas received the French War Cross.
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John M. Bowen was educated at Boston, graduating from the English
High School in 1897. Later he attended the University of Michigan,
graduating with the A. B. degree in 1904. He received his law degree
in 1906 from the Georgetown University Law School at Washington.
He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and from 1908 to 1914 was
in the Government Secret Service, and in connection with that work
was admitted to the bar of practically every state in the Union. His
duties in that service brought him to Los Angeles in 1912, and in 1914
he resigned and began general practice. His offices are in the Van Nuys
Building.
He is a republican in politics. He is a member and president of
the Jonathan Club, is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the
Automobile Club, the Southern California and the Los Angeles County
Bar Association. Mr. Bowen is unmarried.
Thom.iis Hughes. Prominent among the big men of Los Angeles
who have so directed their activities and fashioned their careers that
they have been able to combine great business accomplishment with
marked and constructive civic service is Thomas Hughes, a resident of
the city for thirty-six years, and now president of the Hughes Manu-
facturing Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the West.
His career is intensely typical of the spirit of many transplanted east-
erners who have found their opportunities in the west, and his rise
from obscurity to prominence forms an interesting page in the business
history of his adopted city.
Thomas Hughes was born August 25, 1859, at Rice's Landing,
Greene County, Pennsylvania, a son of James and Fanny (Cline) Hughes.
His education was confined to attendance at the home schools, and his
ambition for success led him, as a youth of nineteen years, to go to
Kansas, where he remained a short time. In 1880 he removed to Albu-
querque, New Mexico, and engaged in the contracting business for three
years, and it was during this time, in June, 1881, that he was united in
marriage with Mrs. Perry Mosher. In 1883 Mr. Hughes recognizing
the opportunities presented by Los Angeles, came to this city, and while
looking for an opening worked for one year in a planing mill. Having
made his decision and choice, he invested his capital of $500 in two
machines and embarked in the sash business on his own account. From
this humble and modest beginning grew the firm of Hughes Brothers,
which in 1902 became the Hughes Manufacturing Company, of which
Mr. Hughes is now president, and the plant of which now represents a
value of nearly $1,000,000, employs 500 men, and is considered the largest
of its kind in the West.
Mr. Hughes has various other interests, being particularly active in
oil production. With Ed Strassburg, he organized the American Oil
Company, one of the first formed in the southwest, which has been a
steady producer and has been one of the most conservative and profitable
of concerns. He has helped organize other companies and is the owner
of considerable real estate at Los Angeles and in the adjacent cities of
Southern California. Mr. Hughes is a purist in business and politics
and has done much to aid the city and to keep its politics clean. In
1917 he was appointed to his only public office, that of harbor commis-
sioner, by Mayor Woodman, and in this position has rendered valuable
and valued service.
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Mr. Hughes is widely and favorably known, not alone in business
circles, but in club and fraternal life, being a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Driving Club, the Los Angeles Country
Club, the San Gabriel Country Club and the Union Club, of which he
was formerly president.
Ernestine de Ponti is one of the recent additions to the imposing
colony of artists who have surrendered themselves to the charms of LoS
Angeles and .Southern California. Mme. de Ponti has for many years
been a recognized star in the grand opera world, and her audiences have
in fact been world wide, since she has appeared in nearly all the great
music centers of Europe as well as America.
She was born at Milan, Italy. Her father. Count Angelo de Ponti,
was a member of a celebrated old family which in recent years has
devoted its fortunes to the cause of Fiume. She is also a niece of Arch-
bishop Alferazzi and of Don Carlo, at one time a canon at Milan Cathe-
dral. Here mother was of French nationality.
Mme. de Ponti has studied music since her earliest years. Some of
her first lessons were given her by her father, who though not a pro-
fessional musician, had a keen musical knowledge and an artistic sense.
When only five years of age she sang "Mira Oh! Norma" from Bellini's
classic opera "Norma," which after nearly thirty-five years of oblivion is
being again revived. When she was twelve years of age she visited an
uncle in Honolulu, then French Consul, who informed the Mendelssohn
Quartet, in which she was the leading vocalist. After a stay of about a
year and a half she went back to Europe to finish her education.
One particularly auspicious event in her earlier career occurred
when at the age of fourteen she sang before Pope Leo XIII at the papal
court. In Milan she studied with the celebrated San Giovanni, and later
in Paris under Mme. Matilde Marchesi, probably the greatest voice
teacher the world has known. Going to London she studied the oratorios
imder Mr. Deacon. At the age of eighteen she bravely met the lion
impresario Lago in his den at Covent Garden and calmly told him she
had come to sing. Her very audacity amused him, and after hearing
her he at once engaged her as one of his leading coloratura sopranos,
and she made her first public appearance at the famous Covent Garden
Opera House, London. In subsequent years she again sang in London
and principal cities of Great Britain under the direction of Sir Augustus
Harris. She was for four years in Germany with Fabrini and has sub-
sequently directed her own opera company.
At the age of twenty she was married to John Cameron of London.
Mr. Cameron at that time was a professor of science and later became
a mining expert, going to all parts of the world to report on mining
properties. It was his report on the Mount Morgan, the largest gold
mine in the world, located in Australia, that sent the stock of that cor-
poration up to a value of eighteen million pounds sterling. Mr. Cameron
was elected a member of parliament.
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron first visited America in 1888, and later
returned every year. Mr. Cameron owned the Canavera mine in Cali-
fornia. He was an ardent admirer and supporter of Gladstone and with
that English statesman endeavored to unite the Anglican Church with
the Church of Rome, a consummation which, in the opinion of Mme. de
Ponti, would have been desirable.
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Mme. de Ponti came to America in 1914, and at Vancouver con-
ducted her own opera company. In this company were three of her
own pupils performing leading parts, and press notices give enthusiastic
endorsement to the individual talents of these pupils and also to the
influence of their instructor. One of them, a tenor, has developed an
extraordinary voice, combining dramatic force with the most delicate,
refined tone in the true Italian method, of which Mme. de Ponti is the
exponent. Among others are a rich baritone, a fine coloratura soprano.
From Vancouver she moved to Seattle, making her home in that
city for a time. In 1918, under her son's management, Mme. de Ponti
went to Australia with excerpts from Grand Opera in costume. This
son is his mother's business manager and is at present preparing grand
opera for production.
While Mme. de Ponti was in Canada the war broke out and her
youngest son, Ian Ernest Cameron, joined the Royal Flying Corps when
only eighteen years of age, his mother giving her consent and signing
all his papers. He soon attained the rank of lieutenant and distinguished
himself in the service. His mother was on a tour in Australia and
returned in time to meet him after the war. This former aviator since
coming to California has been playing a part in "The Hope," and is now
with the Lasky Film Corporation.
When she returned from Australia Mme. de Ponti intended to
spend a week in Los Angeles, but became so chamied with the city that
she opened a studio for teaching and is probably a permanent resident.
Recently she announced an ofifer of four free scholarships to young and
talented members of either sex who would pursue the study of singing
as a career, and had no funds with which to gain the training.
Henry Smith Carhart. The world has for many years appre-
ciated the contributions of the late Henry Smith Carhart to the science
of physics and applied electricity. His residence during his later years
at Pasadena and the encouragement he gave to the California Institute
of Technology make his life and attainments subjects of appropriate in-
terest in this work.
Henry Smith Carhart was born at Coeymans, New York, March
27, 1844, the youngest son of Daniel Sutton and Margaret Martin Car-
hart. He completed his college course at Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut, with highest honors in 1869, and in 1872 received the
Master of Arts degree from the same university. He was a student in
Yale during 1871-72, and in Harvard during the summer of 1876. The
year 1881-82 he devoted to research work in the laboratory of the
renowned Von Helmholtz at the University of Berlin. In 1893 Wesleyan
University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in recognition of
his eminence as a physicist and as a teacher. In 1912 the degree of
LL. D. was also conferred upon him by the University of Michigan, and
that of Sc. D. by Northwestern University.
Two of the great universities of the middle west claimed his services
for nearly thirty-five years. He was professor of physics and chemistry
at Northwestern University from 1872 to 1886, when he was called to
the University of Michigan as professor of physics. He held that chair
until 1909, when he became emeritus professor. In 1910 he was made
research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology.
The position was a purely friendly and honorary relation, involving
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neither professional services nor salary, yet his personal prestige and
his kindly interest proved a quickening power in every department of
the school's technical activities. During his residence in Pasadena he
was also a. member of the Board of Trustees of Occidental College, in
which he was deeply interested. He was promuient in the Presbyterian
Church in Pasadena and in the Twilight Club. On June 8, 1910, he
delivered the dedication address for Pasadena Hall, now known as
Throop Hall, his subject being "The Twentieth Century Engineer."
Dr. Carhart first became known to the scientific world in 1881 for
his experimental work on voltaic cells, a subject on which in later years
he was a world authority. It must have been gratifying to Von Helm-
holtz to have his former pupil chosen as his colleague by the Interna-
tional Electrical Congress in 1893 on a commission of three to formulate
the details of the standard Clark cell. At that time Dr. Carhart was the
recognized authority on the subject on either side of the Atlantic.
While at Northwestern Dr. Carhart supervised tlie construction of
a laboratory for physical science, and his first labor at Ann Arbor was
to build a physical laboratory according to his own detailed plans. It
is significant of the comparative youth of modern applied electricity that
in 1889 the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan authorized
him to introduce a course in electrical engineering, a department which
received its original impetus from Dr. Carhart, and in which have been
educated many of the prominent men in that profession. Dr. Carhart
frequently was employed as an expert in suits involving the validity of
patents on electrical devices.
A summary of his attainments in the scientific world, and a tribute
by a distinguished fellow scientist has been written by Dr. George E.
Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. Dr. Hale said:
"The death of Dr. Carhart, which comes as such a shock to his
friends, will be widely felt throughout the scientific world. He was one
of the pioneers of electro-chemistry in the United States, and his con-
tributions in^this field, especially in the development of Carhart's standard
cell, gave him an international reputation many years ago. The suc-
cess of the researches that culminated in the production of a constant
and reliable source of electric potential was of fundamental importance
to the advancement of physics and electrical engineering, as nearly all
precise electrical measurements depend upon such a source.
"European men of science were quick to recognize his achieve-
ments, and he was frequently called to serve on international committees.
Thus he was a member of the International Jury of Awards at the Paris
Exposition of Electricity in 1881, the president of the board of judges
in the department of electricity at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago
in 1893, a member of the Jury of Awards at the Buffalo Exposition in
1901, and one of the delegates of the United States to the International
Electrical Congress at Chicago in 1893, and at St. Louis in 1904-. He
was also a delegate to the conferences on electrical units and standards
at Berlin in 1905, and London in 1908.
"At the great centennial celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin
in Cambridge, England, in 1909, he represented the University of Mich-
igan, with which he was connected as professor of physics and head of
this department from 1886 to 1909, when he retired as professor emeritus.
Professor Carhart was one of the small group of leading American men
of science who attended the South African meeting of the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science in 1905 as guests of the associa-
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tion. Further evidence of the widespread appreciation of his work is
afforded by his election to membership in the London Institution of
Electrical Engineers and other societies, and by the honorary degrees
conferred upon him by Wesleyan University, the University of Michigan
and Northwestern University, in which he began his scientiiic career as
professor of physics and chemistry in 1872.
"Professor Carhart's influence on the teaching of physics was no
less active and effective, and both his university and elementary text-
books are very extensively used. His clear and attractive method of
treating the subject has done much to arouse and develop the interest
of thousands of students.
"The Mount Wilson Observatory was fortunate enough to enjoy
Professor Carhart's co-operation in certain physical researches, the suc-
cess of which depended upon the use of the standard cell. The members
of its staff who thus learned to know his many attractive qualities have
special reason to mourn his loss."
Dr. Carhart was a pioneer along many lines of the practical applica-
tion of science. Before he had ever seen a telephone he invented one
which worked very successfully; he was the first person in Chicago to
utilize the incandescent lamp. In 1871 Dr. Carhart, in conjunction with
his brother, Dr. J. W. Carhart, designed a steam engine for the first
automobile. This crude machine was built at Racine, Wisconsin, at
the plant of the J. I. Case Thresher Works. The original plan of the
automobile was evolved in the mind of Dr. J. W. Carhart.
It is safe to say that a large majority of American boys and girls
who have gone through high school and college in the past thirty years
immediately recognize the name Carhart in connection with scientific
text books. His principal works are : Primary Batteries, 1891 ; Elements
of Physics, with Horatio N. Chute as collaborator, 1892-97; University
Physics, 1894-96; Electrical Measurements, with George W. Patterson,
1895 ; High School Phvsics, with H. N. Chute, 1901 ; College Physics,
1910; First Principles of Physics, with H. N. Chute, 1912; Physics With
Applications, with H. N. Chute, 1917. His last work went to the press
just before his death; it is a compilation of his original work on cells,
under the title Thermo Electromotive Force in Electric Cells.
When Dr. Carhart was granted a retiring allowance by the Carnegie
Foundation, the president of the fund, Dr. Pritchett, himself a dis-
tinguished American scientist, gave solicitous expression in a letter to
President Angell of the University of Michigan to the high estimate
entertained in scientific circles concerning Dr. Carhart as a teacher and
an investigator.
August 30, 1876, Dr. Carhart married Miss Ellen M. Soule of
Ossining, New York, who was at that time dean of the Woman's College
of Northwestern University. Mrs. Carhart, who survives him, brought
to him the companionship of a woman of fine literary attainments and
social gifts. Dr. Carhart's only son, Emory Richard Carhart, has in-
herited his father's interest in mechanics, which he puts to practical use
as an automobile distributor on a large scale. One daughter, Margaret
Sprague Carhart, carries on her father's interest in education as a
teacher in California. The youngest child, Mrs. Evans Ramsey Cheese-
man, lives in San Francisco.
Viola Dana is one of California's youngest and most beautiful
film stars, and her best work on the screen has been done in this state.
She was born at Brooklyn, New York, June 28, 1898, daughter o»
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Emil and Mary Flugrath. Her early education was under private tutors
in New York.
Destiny brought her talents to notice at the age of five, when she
was on the legitimate stage in New York with Pete Daley in "New-
port Girls." She was also with Thomas Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle,
and at the age of ten appeared with William Favresham in "The Squaw
Man." She also had a part with William and Dustin Farnum in "The
Littlest Rebel." Miss Dana appeared in vaudeville on the Orpheum
circuit, and at the age of fifteen was starring in "The Poor Little Rich
Girl."
At the age of sixteen Miss Dana and John H. Collins were married.
Soon after her marriage she entered the film world with the Edison
Company and at the age of eighteen signed with the Metro Pictures
Corporation, with which she is still starring. Mr. Collins worked with
her at the Metro and directed her. Mr. Collins died in service in a
training camp in Pennsylvania in October, 1918.
Perhaps Miss Dana's best work in pictures is in "Bluejeans," "The
Gates of Eden," "Opportunity," "The Gold Cure," "Satan, Jr." and
"The Willow Tree." Besides an undeniable talent she has the inestimable
charms of youth, beauty and enthusiasm. During the war she helped
with the sale of Liberty Bonds and in Red Cross work. Outside of
her profession her chief hobby is flying.
Ruth St. Denis .\nd Ted Shawn. Los Angeles for all that it
claims so many famous men and women in its citizenship has a special
sense of pride in the fact that Ruth St. Denis, one of the greatest artists
of the generation, has chosen this city as t;he place of her home and the
location of her school "Denishawn," known as the Ruth St. Denis and
Ted Shawn School of Dancing and Its Related Arts.
That considerable part of the world's population that derives enter-
tainment and instruction from the stage needs no introduction to Ruth
St. Denis in her public career, but only a few realize that the wonderful
success of her art has been a matter of development and experience
beginning when a child, and her life is a forceful illustration of that
modern education and training which begin with parentage and the earliest
years of life and in which the formal and conventional schooling enters
as only a minor factor.
Ruth St. Denis was born at Newark, New Jersey, January 20, 1880.
Her father was an inventor. Her mother studied medicine in Phila-
delphia and later received her degree from the University of Michigan.
For five years her mother practiced and engaged in hospital work, until
a breakdown of health caused her to enter the famous sanitarium and
water cure of Dr. Jackson at Dansville, New York. Dr. Jackson has a
very simple regimen, consisting chiefly of pure water, simple living and
no medicines. It was after this experience and as a convert to the ideas
which had wrought such great change in her, that Dr. St. Denis deter-
mined to move from Newark and take her children into the country where
she could teach them to live simply and in obedience to nature's laws.
Ruth was five years old when her parents took her and her brother
into the rural environment. Ruth was dressed as a boy, wore bloomers,
her hair was cut short, and she went barefoot until she was fourteen,
growing up simply and naturally, with few of the conventional habits
and restrictions of city routine.
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Her mother had received some instruction from Madame Pbte, a
famous exponent of Delsarte. In turn she imparted to Ruth these grace-
ful heahhful exercises, and that was Ruth's first training in physical
culture. Thus was planted the foundation for her art which bloomed
forth later. Her mother was a woman of most advanced ideas, and which
to a large degree were accepted by her daughter and have since been
developed to that stage of perfection which Ruth St. Denis exhibits in
her artistic dancing.
A few times every year Ruth was taken to the city to see some of
the best artists of the stage. The most wonderful impression of those
early days was a ballet entitled "Egypt Through Centuries," Irene Kiralfy
with Caralthe and a corps of about five hundred. At the age of sixteen
Ruth St. Denis made her first appearance. She assembled a number of
dances and played at Worth's Museum, 30th and 6th avenues, New York,
a famous old landmark of the Metropolis. She performed six times
daily, and for all the preparation and the taxing effort this required her
salary was fifteen dollars a week. Later she entered vaudeville, and for
five years was with Belasco in "Zaza" and "Du Barry." Ruth St. Denis
was on the stage about nine years before she was attracting general public
attention beyond the limited appreciation of her special friends and ad-
mirers. It was about that time that she received the inspiration for
her "Cycle of I Oriental Dances," which opened to her the real field of
her art and which was entirely original with her. In the spring of 1906
she gave her first performance in Hudson Theatre, under the manage-
ment of Henry B. Harris, who was drowned in the Titanic disaster.
It required two years to produce her first series of Indian dances. Later
she went to Europe, taking her company, and was engaged in making
the rounds of the continental capitals in Germany and Belgium and in
England for two years. In Germany and England during that tour her
success was a veritable triumph. After her return to America she made
at least four complete tours of the United States.
It would be superfluous to attempt to define Ruth St. Denis' public
appreciation. Of her art one of the leading critics has written: "The
modern revival of the love of dancing may be said to have shown its
first tentative blossoming in this country when, to the wonder and de-
light of all lovers of the beautiful, Ruth St. Denis made her first appear-
ance in her Temple Dance Rahda.
"She remains in a class by herself. No other dancer is attempting
to do just the same thing that she does so well. But the sensitive beauty
of her pictorial effects, the exquisite refinements that she thus creates,
the result of minute and sympathetic study have not been rivaled by
any other artist on our stage. The great Russian ballets are the re-
finement of one artist on the work of another, and great masters are
proud to associate in the working out of their elaborate creation. And
back of them all is a tradition to guide not only the performers but also
the audience. But Ruth St. Denis had to create her own traditions, to
find and train all her assistants, to amalgamate the work of her musicians
and scene painters and incorporate their work with hers into a whole."
August 13, 1914, Ruth St. Denis married Mr. Ted Shawn. At the
end of their first tour together they decided to found a school of dancing
at Los Angeles, and out of that determination came "Denishawn," with
its splendid equipment of four buildings and an out-of-door theatre
and with Mrs. Shawn and her husband directing a large faculty of in-
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struction that probably makes it the most complete school of its kind
in America. The school has already produced some finished artists whose
work is recognized and appreciated both on the legitimate and movie
stage. The school has an immense prestige and following, and without
speaking in detail of its equipment and facilities the following paragraph
describes the spirit and principles of its management:
"The system of training at 'Denishawn' is, paradoxically, to have no
system. We believe that to be one's best self is better than to achieve
the cleverest imitation of some one else, and on this simple basis
'Denishawn' rests. The development of the individual is placed first and
foremost. It is no part of our ambition to turn out many pupils, all
of whom are immediately distinguishable as products of the same system.'
We seek by every possible means to discover the nature of the talent of
each individual, the kind of dancing which each one does best, to which
the whole personality of the pupil is best suited. In the faculty at
"Denishawn' all schools of the dance are represented — purely classic ballet
of the Italian, French and Russian schools, national dancing of various
sorts, Greek dancing and the entire gamut of East Indian, Egyptian, Jap-
anese and other oriental dances."
Ted Shawn had been a teacher of dancing in Los Angeles before
his marriage and had a studio and following of his own in that city.
He was born in Kansas City, and finished his education in the University
of Denver, Colorado. He, too, had artistic inheritance. His father was
connected with the Kansas City and Denver papers and wrote for a
number of magazines. His mother was a musical critic. Unfortunately
he was deprived of their companionship and guidance when he was only
seventeen years of age, and ever since he has been self supporting. He
studied for the ministry, but finally decided that he could be of more
value in expressing truth and fidelity through his art of dancing than
as a pulpiteer. Ted Shawn has the distinction of being the first to give
a church service in dance. This notable service was rendered in San
Francisco in September, 1917, at the Interdenominational Church of Ad-
vanced Ideas under Dr. Frank. When he gave the old rituals in move-
ment he received a wonderful appreciation by the press and public, some
of the most adverse critics being won over by his performance, notably
Redford Mason.
Mr. Shawn gave up his art temporarily and his newly established
school to join the colors and serve his country. On February 4, 1918,
he enlisted in the 158th Ambulance Company, 115th Sanitary Train,
and received his commission as lieutenant in the 32d Infantry. Since
his return from the army Mr. Shawn has divided his time between the
school and producing, his most recent success being an Oriental fantasy,
"Julnar of the Sea." Mr. Shawn is at present at work upon his own
personal production and will appear in New York in the early winter.
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn have for the past three summers
given the main performances in the Berkeley Greek Theatre, including
the first pageant. Life and After Life of Egj-pt, Greece and India. Miss
St. Denis created later two dances for the performance of Orpheus,
given by Mr. Steindorf, and last season the Biblical Play "Miriam." This
play, written by Max and Constance Armfield, and directed by Sam
Hume, gave Miss St. Denis her first appearance in the spoken drama,
and was a, remarkable success. Miss St. Denis also created several dances
for this play and combined the dance with voice and music, giving the
synthetic expression in which she has recently been so interested.
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Ted Shawn played the part of Moses, creating and directing all
choreography.
The Shawns upon first coming to California were impressed with
the tremendous artistic future of the state, and have enthusiastically
added their part to what they believe will be America's greatest art
J. A. Daley, who has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1908, is
president of The Federal Grocery Company. The Federal Grocery
Company and its main offices at the Los Angeles Terminal Market are
by no means so widely known and appreciated as are the local units of
its service, widely distributed over Southern California and patronized
by hundreds of thousands of people. These local units are known every-
where as "Rock Bottom Stores."
The Federal Grocery Company, a distinctly Californian institution,
was organized in November, 1917, and started in Los Angeles with only
two Rock Bottom Stores. In less than three years its service has been
extended so that practically every neighborhood district in the city and
county of Los Angeles and Orange County now has a Rock Bottom
Store as one of the most popular features of its grocery service. Com-
prehending and serving all these stores is the wholesale warehouse at
712 Terminal Street, a splendid example of a central institution with
every facility for the economical and swift handling of merchandise. In
conjunction with the warehouse is operated a modem bakery with a
daily capacity of ten thousand loaves of bread, while a coffee roasting
and spice packing plant are soon to be installed. While a single unit
grocery store seldom does business on an impressive scale, the record of
the aggregate business of the Rock Bottom Stores makes interesting
reading. During 1917 a total of eighteen stores sold goods to the value
of four hundred and sixty thousand dollars; the twenty-six stores in-
stalled or in operation during 1918 gave a business total of seven hundred
and nineteen thousand dollars, and sixty-one stores of 1919 sold goods
to the total of one million four hundred and eighty-seven thousand
dollars. The total for the entire year 1919 was a little more than
equalled by the operation of sixty-three stores in the first six months of
1920. By May 1, 1920, this remarkable corporation had in surplus and
undivided profits more than thirty-seven thousand dollars.
The business itself is a remarkable index of the vital business energy
and character of the president, J. A. Daley. Mr. Daley was born at
Dubois, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1880, a son of Lawrence V. and Sarah
Jane (Burgoon) Daley. His great-grandfather, Patrick Daley, was one
of the builders of the Erie Canal, and a pioneer settler of central Penn-
sylvania. The grandfather, also named Patrick Daley, married Ann
Packer, a niece of the old Governor Packer of Pennsylvania and a direct
descendant of William Penn. When they were married they had to
ride sixty miles from their home in central Pennsylvania to secure the
services of the nearest priest. Father Gallitzin, at Bellemont, Pennsyl-
vania.
J. A. Daley has been an intense worker ever since boyhood and
has the faculty of the successful business administrator of making prompt
decisions, and executing them rapidly, even at the expense of an occa-
sional mistake. He acquired his education in the grammar and high
schools of his native town in Pennsylvania and later attended a business
college at Dallas, Texas. At the age of eighteen he owned an interest
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in a bakery, at twenty a half interest in a steam laundry, and at twenty-
one became identified with newspaper work at Wichita, Kansas, and
Kansas City, Missouri. For several years he was editor of sports on
the Kansas City Journal. When twenty-six he was managing a general
merchandise business for L. Dnley & Company at Bums, Kansas, and
Strong City, Kansas.
On coming to Los Angeles in 1908 Mr. Daley resumed newspaper
work for some time and edited a magazine for the Salt Lake Railway
Company. He was assistant industrial agent of that railroad until 1911,
and during a portion of that year was reporter on the Eveniu':;- Express,
and continued newspaper work with the Express until November, 1912.
In the meantime he was diligently studying law and was admitted to the
bar July 22, 1912.
One of his first important cases at law was the means of turning
him aside from his profession into business. In October, 1912, as an
attorney he made an investigation of the Pacific Coast Mail Order House,
with the result that the management was turned over to other parties
and a hundred and twenty thousand shares of stock and property, in
the neighborhood of fourteen thousand dollars, were recovered from
the former ofiicers and directors. Then, in July, 1914, Mr. Daley was
given full and Cv">mplete charge of the corporation both in its legal and
commercial management, and he rescued the enterprise from impending
bankruptcy and placed it upon a sound financial basis.
During the World war he was one of the four-minute speakers in
Los Angeles, his efforts being directed principally to food conservation
in Southern California. He was also a member of the Fair Price Com-
mittee during the Food Administration. He is an old-line republican
in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, Elks Lodge No.
99 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and he and his family
are members of the Cathedral Chapel of the Catholic Church at Los
Angeles.
At Wichita, Kansas, April 4, 1907, he married Miss Clara Bell. '
She was born and educated at Wichita and is a member of the Catholic
Women's Club of Los Angeles. To their marriage were born two
children, Joseph A. Jr., a native of Burns, Kansas, and Lawrence Doug-
las, a native son of Los Angeles.
Samuel M. Constantian. The largest oriental rug business on
the Pacific Coast is conducted by the Constantian Brothers, at 919 South
Broadway, Los Angeles.
Samuel M. Constantian, of this partnership, has had a varied and
interesting career, is a cosmopolitan by experience and residence. He
was born in Constantinople December 15, 1876. His father. Rev. Aredis
Constantian, was a native of Turkey, and for many years was connected
with the British Bible Society at Constantinople and finished his theologi-
cal course in England. He translated the Bible into the Turkish language
and also assisted in revising the Armenian Bible. Samuel M. Constantian
was six years of age when his father took his family to England. After
a residence of three years they returned to Constantinople. Samuel M.
Constantian finished his education in Roberts College, a historic and noted
institution of Constantinople, founded by Americans. At the age of nine-
teen he went to Manchester, England, and took up the study of optics.
He was there three years, part of the time following his business as
an optician. He became a member of the British Optical Association.
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On leaving England Mr. Constantian came to the United States
alone, and while working as an optician two years also engaged in the
oriental rug business at New York. In the meantime a sister had married
in New York and had come to Los Angeles, and he came west to join
her at the age of twenty-four. In 1896 his parents had been driven from
Turkey during the massacre of that year, and all of them came to this
country and sixteen years ago the parents joined Samuel M. Constantian
at Los Angel,es.
In Los Angeles Mr. Constantian was displaying his oriental rugs in
the furniture store of Nills Pease Company. Later he was associated
with his brother and about seven years ago engaged in business for
himself. His brother Augustine spent about four years in China import-
ing Chinese rugs for a very large New York house. At the declaration
of war he returned from China and has since been actively associated
with his brother Samuel.
Samuel M. Constantian married Miss Elizabeth Stone, of Bakers-
field, California. Mrs. Constantian is of Armenian birth. They have
two children: Aredis Constantian, born in 1910, and Marguerite, born
in 1913. Mrs. Constantian is a vocal artist of rare ability. She has
assisted in innumerable benefits, singing some of the numbers on the
program for the Armenian benefit, and was very active in Red Cross
and other war auxiliary movements. She is a member of the Shakes-
peare Club of Pasadena.
Mr. Constantian is a member of the Rotary Club and City Club.
Recently he gave a series of lectures before the Rotary Club describing
the manufacture and bringing out many other interesting pieces of
information concerning oriental rugs. Mr. Constantian's business axiom
is "Integrity is the best business asset." That has helped him build
the success he now enjoys. While in the oriental rug business he believes
in conducting it on the "occidental" plan of business procedure.
Wanda Hawley, one of California's youngest and most popular
screen stars, is to be admired not only for the versatility of her genius
but her courage. When physical impairment of voice balked her am-
bition to become a vocal artist she redirected her patient efforts to a
new field, and for several years has been one of the most prominent of
the Los Angeles colony of artists.
She was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, July 30, 1897, and at the
age of six years her family moved to Seattle, where she acquired her
early education. After graduating from high school she spent two
years in the University of Washington, followed by a two years post
graduate course in Latin and German, during which time she was an
assistant teacher of Latin. However her absorbing passion as a school
girl was music, and from University, where she assisted Moritz Rosen,
teacher of harmony and music at the University of Washington, she
went at the age of eighteen to Brooklyn to study voice at the Master
School of Music. She also perfected her knowledge of modem languages.
For six or eight months prior to going east she had been accompanist for
the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle. Her teachers and friends recog-
nized her as naturally gifted with a very rare and beautiful voice. For
three years she worked to develop it, and was then compelled to give
up on account of severe attacks of larj-ngitis. With a wonderful per-
severance and indomitable spirit which refused discouragement at a point
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when it would have been natural for her to yield to misfortune, she at
once turned to the picture world, toward which she had alreaedy had
special ambitions. Through acquaintance with some of the influential
managers she met Mr. Fox of the Fox Film Corporation who immediately
put her into a leg^d with Stewart Holmes. She was with the Fox
Corporation through four pictures and then went with the Paramount
Artcraft, with which organization she has remained to the present time.
They are now starring her under the Real Art Programme.
Probably her wonderful success in pictures, as in everything else
she undertakes, is due to her untiring earnestness. She believes that
each opportunity grasped is an open door to something higher. Miss
Hawley at one time posed for Harrison Fisher. She was very much
interested in the Red Cross work during the war and also assisted in
the sale of Liberty Bonds.
She was married to A. Burton Hawley three years ago at Brooklyn.
They are now very happily located at Hollywood. Mr. Hawley for
eight months before the signing of the armistice was with the Aeroplane
Spruce Squadron at Vancouver. Mrs. Hawley is possessed of a charm-
ing personality and is devoted to her art, her home, and is a very popular
member of the younger social set.
Victor Lewis Schertzinger, whose genius brought about the
first successful adaptation of the art of music to the movie screen, and
who became a resident of Los Angeles at the age of seventeen, was born
at Philadelphia April 8, 1888. Music was a gift and inheritance to him,
all his people being musical, one sister having achieved recognition as a
harpist. He acquired his early education in private schools in Philadel-
phia. His musical talent was first expressed on the violin. At the age of
twelve years he made his first public appearance with Sousa's Band, and
afterwards played in concert. He finished his education in Brussels,
where for three years he was a student under Caesar Thompson. At
the age of sixteen he played with the great California singer, Ellen Beach
Yaw, and later with Schuman-Heink. On his return from Brussels he
entered the preparatory school of the L^niversity of Pennsylvania, but
did not graduate.
He came to Los Angeles with his parents, who had been attracted to
this western country by the influence of relatives and friends. His father,
for years a jewelry merchant of Los Angeles, would never go back to the
East even on a visit for fear he would die before returning to California.
In Los Angeles, though only seventeen years of age Victor Schertz-
inger conducted the Belasco Orchestra for three years. Later he returned
to New York and did solo work in concert. On March 8, 1914, after his
return to Los Angeles, he married Julia Nicklin.
About that time he had begun to compose music. His first' big score
was in "The Tick Tock Man of Oz" and, as noted above, he was first to
compose an original score to the accompaniment of pictures, setting the
music to the scene. He wrote part of the music for "Pretty Miss Smith"
starred by Kitty Gordon. His greatest work was on the picture, "Civiliza-
tion," writing the score for Peggy. He composed the musical scores for
about thirty-three plays in all, some of them for William Hart, Frank
Keenan, H. B. Warner, Billie Burke, Charles Ray and others. Score
writing for pictures was finally discontinued for commercial reasons. A
large part of the picture houses were unable to contract for reels with
musical settings because they maintained no competent orchestra.
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About that time Mr. Schertzinger began directing and was with
Charles Ray three years, at a time when Ray was doing his best work.
The credit for this was readily conceded to the able director. Later he
was directing Dorothy Dalton. He also was director for Mabel Normand
and directed a picture with Pauline Frederick in the stellar role. His
quick intelligence, his enthusiasm, imparted much of the success to several
of these ventures. While directing he wrote most of his own stories, a
very successful number being "Pinto" for Miss Normand, who has ac-
corded him full credit for her best work and the responsibility for her
"comeback" in the picture world. While directing pictures Mr. Schertz-
inger found some time for musical composition, some of the best known
recent titles being "If I Had You," a ballad, and popular songs "My
Daddy Knows," and "Oriental Magic." Mr. Schertzinger is a member
of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and Brentwood Country Club.
Walter E. Brown is one of the most prominent real estate men
of Los Angeles, has been in that line of business in Southern California
for over thirty years, and at Los Angeles for more than a quarter of a
century. He is active head of Walter E. Brown & Company, in the
Bradbury Building.
His father was the late Luke E. Brown. He was a New Englander
and lived at Winchendon, Massachusetts, for a number of years. In
that old Massachusetts town Walter E. Brown was born April 2, 1867.
His mother was Jennie P. Gage, who died in Massachusetts in 1880.
Luke E. Brown was a contractor and builder. In 1881 he moved to San
Diego, California. He became prominently identified with the develop-
ment of National City, a suburb of San Diego, and was the leading con-
tractor in that locality for a number of years. He constructed more
than three hundred homes at National City. He died there in February,
1893, at the age of fifty-six. His oldest child is Fred W. Brown, now
one of the leading business .men of Tucson, Arizona. He owns a planing
mill, is a merchant and is interested in a number of local enterprises.
The second child was Lula B., who married Nelson Giles and died in
1899 at her home in Topeka, Kansas.
Walter E. Brown, the youngest of the three children, was about
fourteen years old when he came to California, and he completed his
education in the public schools of National City. Soon after leaving
school in 1887 he began handling real estate, both city and country
property at National City. In 1892 he moved to Los Angeles, where his
name is not only associated with those of the oldest and most substantial
real estate operators, but also with much important development in the
city. He has subdivided and put on the market twelve or more high-
class tracts and was especially prominent in developing the Wilshire
section.
Mr. -Brown has always been an outdoor man, fond of wholesome
outdoor sports. He is a republican and is affiliated with all the Masonic
bodies at Los Angeles, including the Knight Templar Commandery and
Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the
National Federation of Realty Dealers, the Los Angeles Realty Board.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Cit}^ Club, Automobile Club of
Southern California, and the First Congregational Church.
November 10, 1892, at National City, he married Miss Ada L. Mc-
Cartney. She was born at Vinton, Iowa, and was educated there and
came with her parents to National City in the fall of 1888. She is a
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daughter of Judge John and Anna B. (Burrell) McCartney. Her mother
lives with Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Her father, who died at National City-
January 26, 1899, was a prominent citizen of National City, a lawyer
by profession and at one time a member of the Iowa Legislature. He
was buried in San Diego. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Ebell Club
of Los Angeles.
They have one son, John McCartney Brown, who was a radio
operator during the war and is now connected with the Phoenix Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles. April 16, 1919, soon after
returning from the service, he married Miss Grace Lane West, of Los
Angeles.
Frank A. Kelly. Los Angeles was honored by a residence of
eighteen years of the late Frank A. Kelly. Judge Kelly came to Los
Angeles in 1901. Owing to uncertain health he took no active part in
public affairs, and gave his time chiefly to oil investments. He died
April 9, 1918.
While he was known and held in the highest esteem among many
friends in Los Angeles, his distinctive services and achievements were
laid in his home State of Ohio. He was born at New Lexington in
that state September 2, 1855, a son of John Henry and Anna (Pound-
stone) Kelly. His grandfather, Henry Kelly, was a pioneer land owner,
a magistrate and a teacher in Muskingum County, Ohio, and in the early
days exercised great influence in the development of that part of Ohio.
John Henry Kelly was a lawyer by profession and was long promi-
nent in the public and religious Hfe of his community. He served through-
out the Civil War in the Union Army and retired with the rank of
colonel. Always a leader in civic affairs, it was the confidence felt in
his judgment and integrity that brought him election to the post of
Probate Judge in 1877, an unusual distinction in the fact that he was
the first republican ever elected to office in Perry County, Ohio.-
The late Frank A. Kelly was liberally educated, graduating in June,
1875, from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar and began practice at New Lexington, Ohio.
He was appointed Probate Judge by the Governor of Ohio to succeed
his father, who died in 1881. At that time he was twenty-six years
old and was the youngest judge in the state. He was elected to that
office for two succeeding terms, and was also a member of the Ohio
Legislature for two terms beginning in 1890.
While a lawyer with a large practice much of his time was given
to industrial and business affairs. He was interested in an iron foundry
at Lexington, also in the Clay Lumber Company at Charleston, West
Virginia, and he developed oil in Perry County. He was an officer and
director in many companies and at one time owned and published the
New Lexington Tribune.
For fifteen years or more he was one of the distinct influences in
political affairs in Ohio. He served for fifteen years as a member of
the State Republican Committee, and was unwavering in his allegiance
to the Grand Old Party. He had as political and personal friends such
distinguished men as William McKinley, Mark Hanna and James A.
Garfield, and did much to carry his state when McKinley was a candidate
for governor and president.
Judge Kelly was a member of the University Club of Los Angeles
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and was affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was especial-
ly well known in Masonic circles in that city, being a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner, and was a charter
member of Westlake Masonic Lodge No. 92. This order had charge
of his funeral ceremony and the pall bearers were selected from the
charter members.
Judge Kelly married at New Lexington, Ohio, April 27, 1880, Miss
Laura Taylor, who with four children survives him and lives in Los
Angeles. Mrs. Kelly a daughter of James C. and Amanda H. Taylor,
was at one time editor of the New Lexington Tribune, was active in
Ohio State charity, church and club work, and represents a distinguished
lineage. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution
through the paternal line, but on both sides had five great-great-grand-
fathers in the Revolutionary army. Her original American ancestor was
Thomas Cuthbert Taylor, who was a young officer in the British army anq,
member of a well known family of the landed gentry of County Cork,
Ireland. .Stationed in the colonies when the Revolution occurred, he
threw off his red coat and cast his lot with the colonists. His family
ordered him never to return, and he accepted them at their word, and
despite subsequent overtures toward reconciliation never went back to
the old home. He was a member of the staff of General Monroe, and
at the close of the war was awarded a large tract of Virginia land.
His son fought in the War of 1812, his grandson in the Mexican war,
and his great-grandson, James Cuthbert Taylor, in the Civil war, going
in as lieutenant and coming out as a colonel. Mrs. Kelly's father was
State Journal with A. W. Francisco, who later with General Otis estab-
lished the. Los Angeles Times. Colonel Taylor also discovered and helped
lished the Los Angeles Times. Colonel Taylor also discovered and helped
to develop the vast bodies of coal and iron now known as the Sunday
Creek and Hocking Valley fields in Ohio. He was a personal friend
of John' Sherman. McKinley and Garfield.
The four children of Judge and Mrs. Kelly, all residents of Cali-
fornia, are : Donald Kenton, who married Agnes McMillen ; Walter
Poundstone, who died January 5, 1919; Elsie Taylor, who married Frank
S. Thorpe, and Jean Frances wife of George A. Thorpe.
Bryant Washburn. For several years Bryant Washburn has been
a star in the motion picture industry and is well known and conspicuous
for the quality of his work and by (he splendid following he has acquired
among admirers of wholesome and clean productions on the movie screen.
Mr. Washburn's baptismal name is Franklin Bryant Washburn and
is the third in as many successive generations to bear the name. His
mother was Metha Catherine Johnson, a native of Denmark, brought
to this country when very young. She and her husband were marriec?
in Chicago in 1888. Bryant Washburn HI was born in Chicago April
28, 1889. When he was three years old the family moved to Racine,
Wisconsin, and remained in that city for a period of seven years. The
family then returned to Chicago, where Mr. and Mrs. Washburn H still
reside. Bryant HI completed his early education at the Lake View
High School of that city. He started to support himself at the early
age of thirteen, and as a youth was very ambitious to have and achieve.
Foregoing many of the pleasures of youth to achieve his ambitions, he
exerted himself as a farm hand at a dollar a day in order to earn the
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money to buy clothes and school books. He had many varied exper-
iences before his talents finally centered upon the stage. His introduction
into the theatrical world was as head usher in the old Chicago Opera
House. Later he was employed in the box office and as assistant treasurer
of the same theatre. Finally he decided his interest was in back of the
curtain instead of in front of it. His first acting engagement was with
George Fawcett, then at the head of a company playing in Chicago.
For this engagement he was paid at the rate of a dollar a performance,
nine dollars a Week, and although the compensation was very small
the work was congenial and in complete line with his inclination and
talent. Subsequently he secured a small part in a stock company at
eighteen dollars a week. The company went on the road, became stranded,
and when some local people took over the organization the salaries were
cut, Mr. Washburn's going down to sixteen dollars a week. After this
disastrous experience he joined the Percy Haswell Stock Company
playing at the Royal Alexandria Theatre, Toronto, Canada. This was
Mr. Washburn's first really successful engagement. At the end of this
season he again joined Mr. Fawcett's company. During the next season
he played a small part in "The Remittance Man" and the leading role
in "The Wolf."
At this point in Mr. Washburn's career the motion picture industry
was just beginning to unfold itself, but was looked upon as a venture
to be shunned by those ingrained with legitimate stage ideals. However,
while in New York he overheard a manager saying there was a fine
opening for a young man in pictures in Chicago. As Chicago was Mr.
Washburn's home and not having seen his parents for some time and
the season of the year not being propitious for the securing of a theatrical
engagement, he decided to investigate the possibilities of pictures. More
for the trip to his home than for any other rea.son he signed a contract
for the summer months with the Essanay Company. At the expiration
of this engagement he discovered a strong liking as well as a great
aptitude for screen work — and the engagement that was entered into
as a makeshift resulted in his continuing with the Essanay Company for
over seven years. During these years Mr. Washburn played every con-
ceivable role from dope fiends to Grand Dukes. Just before leaving
this organization he made what is conceded to be one of the greatest
comedies ever producd — "Skinner's Dress Suit."
Shortly after the Essanay engagement terminated he became identified
with the Famous Players Lasky Corporation, and his name ranks high
among the great stars in that galaxy of talent. Mr. Washburn has
religiously refused to play in any vehicle that was not thoroughly clean
ancf wholesome, being far-sighted enough to realize that plays of that
kind only can endure. Among the excellent pictures he has made for
the Paramount-Artcraft programme are: "It Pays to Advertise," "Why
Smith Left Home." "Too Much Johnson." "Six Rest Cellars," "Sins of
St. Anthony," "Mrs. Temple's Telegram," "What Happened to Jones"
and "A Full House." Mr. Washburn's one hobby is work and plenty of it.
He married Mabel Forrest Chidester in Chicago July 3, 1914. Mrs.
Washburn is a very talented musician. They have two sons, Bryant
Washburn IV, born in 1915, and Dwight Ludlow, born in 1919. The
younger child was named for Mr. Washburn's great uncle, Dwight L.
Moody the world famous evangelist.
Mr. Washburn is a great lover of California Shortly after coming
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to California he purchased a beautiful home at 7003 Hawthorne Avenue,
Hollywood.
Mr. Washburn is a member of the Brentwood Country Club of Los
Angeles and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.
Wir.LiAM Benjamin Scott, while he began his career in the Cali-
fornia oil fields as a rig builder, had attained a quarter of a century
later a reputation as one of the most active and successful oil operators
in the state. He was associated in business and on the plane of friend-
ship with a notable group of California men, men whose material achieve-
ments have made up the constructive progress of the Southwest, and
whore ideals and character as business men and citizens can never be
sufficiently admired.
William Benjamin Scott was bom in Johnson County, Missouri,
November 15, 1868, and came to California too young to remember any-
thing of the state of his birth or the journey to the far West. His
parents settled at Santa Paula, where Mr. Scott was educated, one of
his teachers being Hon. Thomas O. Toland, of Los Angeles. He served
an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and it was his skill at that trade that
made him a useful factor at the beginning of his oil career as a rig
builder with the Union Oil Company of California. He worked for this
company in Torrey Canyon and the Tarr Creek districts of Ventura
County. He was fascinated by the oil industry, and it undoubtedly
brought out the finest qualities of an executive genius that lay dormant
under his role as a mechanic. He learned tool dressing, the practical
operations of drilling, and his experience comprised every technical
process involved in oil production.
Mr. Scott's independent operations commenced in 1894, when he
came to Los Angeles and began building rigs by contract for different
oil operators in the Los Angeles city fields. This was followed by his
drilling oil wells under contract for various companies. Later a partner-
ship was formed by Mr. Scott and Mr. William Loftus, and for several
years this firm was engaged in operating for themselves and drilling
wells by contract for others.
In 1898, together with Mr. W. L. Hardison, Mr. Scott secured
leases in the Oliiida oil district in Orange County, California, which
formed the basis for the organization of the Columbia Oil Company, of
which Mr. Hardison was president, and Mr. Scott vice president.^ In
1900 this company was reorganized as the Columbia Oil Producing Com-
pany, having an authorized capital of $1,000,000, with Mr. Hardison
as president, and Mr. Scott as vice president, with whom were also asso-
ciated Mr. Harry Chandler, Guy L. Hardison and F. X. Pfaffinger and
other Los Angeles business men.
In 1903 a consolidation was efifected between the Columbia Oil
Producing Company and the Puente Oil Company, the latter com.pany
being headed by W. R. Rowland, and with him associated J. A. Graves,
Richard and William Lacey and others, Mr. Hardison becoming president
and Mr. Scott vice president of the consolidated companies. This gave
the reorganization an operating refinery at Chino, as well as a selling
organization, thus combining production, refining and marketing. By
1907 Mr. Scott had greatly increased his stock holdings and had become
president of the company. During that year, also, Mr. Scott, together
with E. A. Clampitt, Captain Tompkinson, I. N. Richards and others,
organized the Orange Oil Company, which controlled fifty-six acres in
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Brea Canyon, Mr. Scott becoming also president of this new company.
This Brea Canyon property became very productive. In 1909, with the
purchase of four hundred acres adjoining the old I\iente property in
Brea Canyon, the Pico Oil Company was organized by Mr. Scott, Harry
Chandler, General Sherman, W. L. Stewart, Chester W. Brown and
Charles Astley.
The final consolidation of all these properties and companies was
efifected in 1912, at which time the capital stock of the Columbia was
increased to three million five hundred thousand shares par value one
dollar. The holdings consisted of about five thousand acres of oil lands,
leases and mineral rights in fee, located in Orange and Los Angeles
counties, with approximately a hundred wells of substantial production
and a refinery and sales organization. While some of his prominent
associates have been named, the substantial credit for this progressive
accumulation of oil properties and the business organization is due to
the foresight and genius of Mr. Scott, who became president of the
reorganized company, his fellow directors being Chandler, Stewart, Row-
land, Sherman, Clampitt and Astley. Mr. Scott remained as chief execu-
tive until August, 1919, when the Union Oil Company of Delaware pur-
chased and contracted to purchase the outstanding stock of the company
on a basis of six million dollars to the stockholders. The Eastern com-
pany took over the property and active management January 1, 1920, and
by .special request Mr. Scott remained on the board of directors, and
was serving as such at the time of his death on April 27, 1920.
He died in his fifty-second year, and while his friends were shocked
by his premature end, all admired the tremendous array of achievements
to the credit of his life. They had known him as a tireless worker, a man
of rare good judgment and business acumen, not as a shrewd bargainer,
but, as one friend said, "He used the golden rule as a yardstick for the
measure of his conduct, and if he had any doubt as to its application in
the matter at issue, he gave the other the benefit of the doubt." It means
a great deal when one of his friends could sincerely say: "He was
brave, kind, good, true. His every thought was pure and honest and
his every act a living expression of his noble thought." Many stories
have been told illustrating his integrity of character. All the years he
was in the oil fields he was strictly a legitimate operator, and no one
could ever tempt him to join in the frequent "wildcatting" practices that
prevailed here as elsewhere. He also had a high measure of apprecia-
tion for those who worked for him and with him for the success of his
business. At the time of the sale tii the Eastern investors, and upon
the initiative of Mr. Scott, a special lionus was paid to all employes of
the company equal to ten per cent of the entire amount earned by each
during continuous employment. This generous provision called for the
distribution of approximately $110,000. That act was characteristic of
Scott's numerous kindly acts to his fellow men, though many of the
impulses that directed him to practical generosity were completely hidden
from public view.
In addition to his activities as an oil operator, Mr. Scott had a
diversity of interests. He was a director of the Citizens National Bank,
and a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Oil and Mines. He also
served on important committees of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce.
On June 24, 1896, Mr. Scott was married to Miss Luna M. Hardi-
son, of Caribou, Maine. This union was blessed with two children. Miss
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Josephine Scott, now a student at Stanford University, and William
Keith Scott, a student of Los Angeles High School.
It was the financiers, business executives, prominent men in social,
professional and public affairs, and the numerous employes who had
worked under his leadership, who rendered sincere and complete homage
to the life and services of Mr. Scott at the time of his death. He was
laid to rest in Inglewood cemetery, the burial services being conducted
by the Santa Paula Masonic Lodge, of which he was a life member.
Fred R. Dorn, architect, is a son of one of the early contractors and
builders of Los Angeles and has been in the building business almost from
his earliest recollections. His interests in that line were soon concen-
trated in architecture, a profession he has followed independently since
he was twenty-one years of age. During the past thirty years Mr. Dorn
has been architect for a great number of the business structures, includ-
ing hotel and office buildings, which make up the conspicuous landmarks
in Los Angeles.
Mr. Dorn was born at Port Henry, New York, June 13, 1866, son of
R. H. and Maria Louise (Rice) Dorn, also natives of New York State.
The family settled in Los Angeles in 1886, where R. H. Dorn continued
in business as a contractor and builder for many years. He died in 1911
and his wife in 1901. Their children, one daughter and three sons, all
reside in Los Angeles: Mrs. A. G. Slocum, Charles H. Dorn, W. W.
Dorn and Fred R. Dorn.
Fred R. Dorn acquired his early education in the public schools of
Port Henry, New York, Saratoga Springs and Rochester. He was
twenty years of age when he came to Los Angeles, and the following year
he set up independently as an architect. Monuments of his constructive
skill might be pointed out in all parts of the city. Perhaps the most con-
spicuous is the twelve story Marsh-Strom office building at Ninth, Spring
and Main streets, in which Mr. Dorn has his own offices. In the course
of his long career he has drawn plans and supervised the construction
of numerous private residences, churches, hotels and schools, but his
main work has been in business buildings. He was architect of the
Woodward Hotel on Eighth Street and also furnished the plans for a
five-story office building known as the Pickerill & Scott Building at Long
Beach.
Mr. Dorn has usually voted as a republican. He married at Los
Angeles February 8, 1894, Miss Alice D. Austermell. She was born at
Alton, Illinois, daughter of J. H. Austermell and wife, who came to
Los Angeles more than thirty years ago. Both parents are now deceased.
Mrs. Dorn was educated in Los Angeles. She had a special gift in vocal
music, and in former years made many public appearances as a singer
in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Dorn have two children, both of whom
were born and educated in Los Angeles and are graduates of the city
high school. The daughter is Mrs. W. D. Sink, wife of a physician and
surgeon at Guadalupe, California. The son, Paul A., is now specializing
in chemistry at the University of California. The Dorn family home is
at 1126 Fourth Avenue.
Henry M.\cR,\e is director general of production of the Universal
Film Corporation, and has been one of the men most active in that world
faiiious institution since it was started at Hollywood in 1912.
He thence moved with such rapidity in the film world that many
California people have forgotten the old Nestor Comedy Company, which
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was organized in 1912 and employed only twenty people. In the same
years the promoters acquired the "101 Bison Fihn Company" studio lo-
cated at Gower Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. This studio consisted of
a small cutting room, scenario department, projecting rooms, technical
office and a stage 35x50 feet. All of this was under one roof 60x100
feet. There was a great deal of vitaHty in the personnel of the organiza-
tion, and in less than one year they had enlarged the original capacity
three times and had ten companies at work. Other buildings were added
to the plant on the south side of Sunset Boulevard, where they erected a
stage 300x60 feet, large property room and elaborate office building. The
company also secured a twelve hundred acre ranch, where they fitted out
two big stages, an office building, bunk houses, cook houses, corrals, sta-
bles, and bought a carload of equipment for the making of pictures.
In the meantime the business had been organized and incorporated
as the Universal Film Corporation. In 1914 the organization acquired
two hundred thirty-seven acres near Hollywood and began the con-
struction of what is now the largest motion picture studio in the world.
This comprises ten acres of stages, which are built with concrete founda-
tions, and at the present time thirty-three companies represent the the-
atrical personnel under the immediate control of the Universal Film Cor-
poration.
It is a matter of interesting history for Southern California to note
some of the stars employed by the Universal in the past. Some of these
names are Florence Lawrence, Nat Goodwin, Henrietta Grossman, Digby
Bell, Frank Keenan, Edna Aug, Julia Dean, Helen Ware, George Fauset,
Mary Pickford, King Baggett and Annette Kellerman.
The Universal Film Corporation recently adopted the policy of
creating its own stars, and the film world knows many of these under
the names of Carmel Myers, Franklin Farnum, Dorothy Philips, Ella
Hall, Monroe Salisbury, Grace Conard, Marie Walcamp, Ruth Clifford,
Mary McLaren, Gladys Brockwell and J. Warren Kerrigan.
The corporation represents a city and a great industry in itself. It
pays out about fifty-five thousand dollars every week in Los Angeles
and from seven hundred to three thousand people are employed in this
vast enterprise. One feature of the industry is a complete plant for
manufacturing not only films, furniture and costumes, but also mills for
planing lumber, furnishing iron work, plaster and papier mache. The
company owns its own water, light and sewage system, and other prop-
erty interests include a hospital, restaurant, developing plant, school
house, theater for projecting films, ranch with exerything that goes with
it, and last but not least a zoological farm, where they breed and raise
lions, tigers, wolves, elephants, camels and practically every other ani-
mal that has a part in the varied stage settings.
The director general of production for this corporation is an old
and tried theatrical man. Born in Toronto, Canada, son of David and
Mar)' MacRae, he left school at the age of eleven to play juvenile parts
in the stock company of the Princess Theater. After two years he went
out on the road with various theatrical companies in Canada and the
United States, and later attained to the dignity of having a company of
his own. He was on the road playing the latest dramatic successes as
released for stock companies, and his organization earned him no small
degree of fame. For three years he lived at Honolulu, and made a tre-
mendous success of his theatrical venture in that city.
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Mr. MacRae came to Los Angeles in 1912 and became a factor in
the direction of motion picture plays for the Universal Film Corporation,
and since 1917 has been its director general of production.
Mr. MacRae is a charter member of the Motion Picture Directors'
Association, is a member of the Pacific and Country Clubs of Honolulu,
and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and the Masonic and Elks fra-
ternities. He owns a beautiful home on Canyon Drive in Hollywood.
Mr. MacRae's favorite hobby and recreation is horseback riding, and it is
said he owns one of the finest riding horses in Southern California. In
politics he is a democrat and in religion a member of the Christian
Science church. In 1906, at Yonkers, New York, Mr. MacRae married
Margaret Oswald, well known to the theatrical world. They have one
child, Henry, who is seven years old and is being trained under private
tutors.
George Steckel. In the field of portrait photography there is only
one George Steckel, and in the opinion of many experts and others
qualified to judge, George Steckel is the only man capable of bringing
out many of those intangible qualities which make all the difference be-
tween the mechanical and really lifelike portrait. Mr. Steckel is one
of the veteran photographers of America, and has had his home and
business at Los Angeles for thirty years.
He wa,-= born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1864. He
left public school at the age of thirteen and the next two years worked
in a photographic shop in Allentown. He learned the business in a
time of crude facilities and when photography was largely an experi-
mental process. For a year after leaving Allentown he was employed
in a studio at Philadelphia, and then opened a studio of his own at
Allentown, continuing it three years. By that time he thought he had
exhausted the possibilities of photography, and desiring some other line,
he sold out and went West. After considerable travel, he finally located
at Kansas City, where he was engaged in the real estate business until
1888.
In that year Mr. Steckel took advantage of the low rate offered by
the railroads to come West. The journey brought him to Los Angeles,
and while he had no intention of settling here permanently, he found
the city so attractive in every way that he has had no other home since
that date. He soon opened a photographic studio opposite the Hollen-
beck Hotel, forming a partnership with Joseph H. Lamson under the
name Steckel & Lamson. Two years later they dissolved partnership
and since then Mr. Steckel's studio has been conducted under his in-
dividual name. In 1905 he moved to his present location at 336>4 South
Broadway, where he occupies the entire top floor of an office building.
Literally a host of patrons can speak appreciatively of the work and
talents of George Steckel. Moreover, there are many expert credentials
to substantiate all such assertions. He has long been a member of the
National Photographic Association of America, that association honoring
him with the office of second vice president in 1897, and first vice pres-
ident in 1898. At the convention of the association at Boston, Massa-
chusetts, in 1899, his work won the first award of merit. In 1890 the
bronze medal was given him in recognition of his work at the Buflfalo
convention of the association. When the association held its meeting at
Chicago during the World's Fair of 1893, his portraits received the
award of two gold medals and the Committee of Awards of the Exposi-
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tion itself gave him a medal for artistic excellence. In the same year
he had an exhibit ai the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco and brought
away all five of the silver medals offered by that body. Altogether his
distinctive ability as an artist photographer has been awarded eighteen
medals and numerous diplomas. These include the silver medal given
his work at the Paris Exposition in 1900.
Mr. Steckel's ideals have alwa)s been more on the artistic than on
the commercial side of his profession. After forty years behind the
camera, he has adopted methods for securing individuality in adults and
children that are often described as the George Steckel style, which is
still maintained by his personal supervision. Experience and skill have
enabled him to bring out that indefinable something which distinguishes
portrait photography as a real art.
From 1897 to 1907 Mr. Steckel devoted a portion of his studio to
an art exhibit. This gallery consisted of paintings by many of the best
known artists in the world. Mr. Steckel was one of the seven men who
met in the parlors of the Hollenbeck Hotel and founded the Jonadian
Club, of which he is still a member. He is also a member of the Cali-
fornia Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Country
Club, South Gate Lodge No. 320, A. F. and A. M., Knight Templar
Commandery No. 9 and the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the
Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association,
and for twenty-nine years has been an executive of the Ellis Club, a
local musical organization. He is a republican voter. At Los Angeles,
October 3, 1905, Mr. Steckel married Evangeline Buck. They have two
children, George Jr., born in 1908, and Margaret, born in 1913, both
attending the public schools.
Paul J. Howard, landscape architect, has been engaged in land-
scape architecture and horticulture since boyhood. There was an irre-
sistible attraction for him into this line, and the success he has made of
his profession finds striking evidence in the many notable homes and
private and public grounds which he has beautified and adorned.
Mr. Howard was born at Los Angeles, son of Frederick P. and Caro-
line (Huberj Howard. He received his education in the public schools
and in 1904 became a partner in the firm of Howard & Smith, landscape
artists and horticulturists. After ten years he Ijranched out in business
for himself, although still retaining an interest in the firm. His name
and title as given above is now his business signature. In 1914 he opened
his office in the 1. W. Hillman Building, in 1915 he moved to the Marsh-
Strong Building, and in 1917 to bis present address at 1521 West .Seventh
Street.
In 1915 Mr. Howard bought twenty acres of Los Nietas. ITiis he
has developed into a nursery, cultivating ornamental and fruit trees and
shrubbery and economic plants of all kinds. From it he has supplied
great quantities of trees and shrubbery for the adornment of Los An-
geles homes.
The character of his work and his standing in the profession can
most briefly be indicated by reference to some of the private homes and
grounds which have been adorned by him and under his direction. The
list includes the residences and grounds of H. Jevne in Pasadena, L. N.
Brunswick, John E. Powers, R. J. Gafifney, Howard J. Schoder, R. E.
Fuller, Elsberv \'\'. Reynolds, Dr. Norman Bridge, A. T. Stimson, f.
Ross Clark. Mrs. H. O. Ayres, Mrs. Florence P. Holstead, D A. Mizner,
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W J. Hole of Riverside, and J. Myrick Jr. of Nordhoff Mr. Howard
also did the exterior improvement and landscape gardening for the Gar-
den Court Apartments, which is considered one of the finest apartment
houses and gardens in the West. Every detail of exterior adornment, in-
cluding the placing and construction of fountains, and other ornaments,
as well as planning and care of vegetation, are within the scope of Mr.
Howard's business.
He is a member of the Jonathan Club and is a republican in politics.
At Saginaw, Michigan, September 10, 1912, he married Miss Allaseba
Bliss. They have one child, Allaseba, lx)rn in 1917.
Carl E. Rosenberg has an enviable record as a sales manager and
expert in selling methods as applied to the broad and varied field of
commercial enterprise. He is the one man out of a thousand who have
the intuitive commercial sense and the equipment of ideas and abilities
which constitute the born salesman.
Before getting into his real work he was well trained as a banker.
Born in New York City October 7, 1876, son of Victor and Sarah
(Wald) Rosenberg-, he was educated in his native city until the age of
eleven, when his parents removed to Chicago. Not long afterward he
secured his first job earning money for himself as bundle boy with the
P. F. Pettibone stationery store. A year later he was made a messenger
with the First National Bank of Chicago, and was employed by that
institution eight and a half years. He was then given the opportunity to
install the clearing house system, and managed it for the Corn Exchange
National Bank of Chicago four and a half years.
By that time he had become convinced that banking was not the
business best suited for the full scope of his talents. He joined the
Rockwell-Wabash Company, sales systematizers, as their salesman two
years. For another )^ear he was sales correspondent with the Yawman-
Erbe Manufacturing Company at Rochester, New York. He was then
sent West as assistant manager of the San Francisco branch of this
well-known firm, manufacturers of ofifice furniture and equipment, and at
the end of a year was transferred to Los Angeles to succeed the man-
ager of the Los Angeles branch. The business of this branch was in a
very poor way and the company was inclined to abandon it altogether.
Mr. Rosenberg sought the opportunity to give this territory a thorough
test, and after reorganizing and instituting a thorough canvass of the
field, he had the Los Angeles branch showing prosperous returns at the
end of a year, and today it handles more business than any other house
of its kind in the city. In 1914 Mr. Rosenberg resigned from, the Yaw-
man-Erbe Company to become sales auditor for the Globe Grain & Mill-
ing Company. Nine months later he was made sales auditor for the
Los Angeles Ice and Cold Storage Company, and during the eighteen
months he was with this enterprise he completely reorganized its selling
methods. After that he became director of sales for the Chocolate Shop,
Incorporated, and it has been his resourcefulness and novel ideas that
have been largely responsible for the growth of this distinctive Los
Angeles business into national fame and appreciation.
Mr. Rosenberg served as president of the Los Angeles Rotary Club
from June, 1917, to June, 1918. He is past president of the International
Sales Managers' Association, a member of the Sierra Madre Club, and
in politics a republican. At Oakland, California, December 5, 1910, he
married Miss Marie Frances Hammer. They have two chldren: Victor,
bom in 1911, and Portia, born in 1914.
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William May Garland has been a resident of Los Angeles since
1890. His ability and enterprise have impressed themselves upon some
of the most attractive residence sections of the city, and particularly in the
business district, which he has promoted and developed from the realty
standpoint. He is a citizen of prominence, of great influence, and car-
ries a weight of responsibilities that only a man of great energy and re-
sources could.
A feature of his record, gratifying now and destined to be even
more so in the future, was his active relationship with many wartime ac-
tivities. A Los Angeles paper recently called him "one of the busiest
men in the country," with a one dollar a year job in Washington as gov-
ernment negotiator and expert on real estate necessary to carry on war
work, for the various government departments. He represented the
National Association of Real Estate Boards, of which he has twice been
elected president, and which includes ten thousand realtors and one hun-
dred and fifty Real Estate Boards in as many cities in the United States.
His duties with the government required his assistance in buying and
appraising property for all departments of the government throughout
the United States.
Mr. Garland is a native of the Pine Tree State, born at W'estport,
Maine, March 31, 1866, son of Jonathan May and Rebecca Hagan
(Jewett) Garland. He is of stanch New England ancestry. He was
educated in the public schools of Waterville, Maine, and from its high
school entered upon an active business career at Boston. For a time he
was employed by a retail and wholesale crockery house, and from there
went to Daytona, Florida, where until 1884 he was in the employ of his
father, an orange grower, and operated a stage line from the St.
Johns River to Ormond and Daytona. From Florida Mr. Garland
removed to Chicago, and in six years advanced from the position of
messenger in the Merchants National Bank to receiving teller in the
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank.
It was a matter of health and on the advice of his physician that
Mr. Garland came to Los Angeles in the winter of 1890. His first work
here was as auditor of the Pacific Cable Railway Company, then the
chief factor in supplying urban transportation. Three years later he
entered the real estate field, where his activities have been so pronounced.
Through his experience he has accumulated probably as great a fund of
definite data, faith and enthusiasm about Los Angeles as any other resi-
dent. He has been identified with many large real estate transactions.
One of the most notable as well as one of his earliest was developing in
1896 the subdivision of the Wilshire Boulevard tract. He took a district
of the city wholly unimproved, somewhat remote, and kept urging its
merits until now it is reputed the finest residence section of Los Angeles.
Mr. Garland was one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Realty
Board, and has served three terms as its president. He is a director
of the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, has been a member of
the Los Angeles Board of Library Directors and the Board of Education,
and in 1918 was chosen president of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, as
successor to the later Robert A. Rowan. He had served as a director
of the club many years. He was also president of the California Club
in 1908, member of the Jonathan and Bolsa Chica Gun Clubs, is presi-
dent of Crags Country Club, and a member of the Los Angeles, Pasadena
and Annandale Country clubs. Mr. Garland is a republican, was a dele-
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gate to the National Convention of 1900 which nominated McKinley and
Roosevelt and served on the staff of former Governor J. N. Gillett.
At Dunkirk, New York, Ofctober 12, 1898, he married Miss Blanche
Hinman. He has two sons, William Marshall and John Jewett Garland,
the former in Harvard L^niversity and the latter in Hotchkiss Preparatory
School, Lakeville, Connecticut.
\
Charles Adelbert Canfiki.u, who died August 15, 1913, at his
home in Los Angeles, California, was a pioneer and one of the most
conspicuous factors in the development of the great oil fields of Southern
California and Mexico with which his name will be forever predominantly
associated. Before that he had been a miner in Colorado, Nevada, Utah,
New Mexico, California, and always and everywhere he had played the
game fair. All his life long, in business and out, he stood for the square
deal and never failed to keep his word in small as well as in big things.
A gentle, kindly spirit masking a brave heart and a prodigious strength —
he gave generously, unostentatiously, almost surreptiously, and never
shunned a task however formidable.
Life to the late Mr. Canfield was a continuous adventure. Resolute
in his purpose, ever hopeful of attainment though again and again at
the Iiottom of his resources, he never sounded the depths of discourage-
ment because his was the spirit which rises upon the ashes of failure.
He was born at Springfield, l'>ie County, May 15, 1848, on a farm
which is now part of the city of Buffalo, New York, but the westward
immigration of his parents in 186.3 carried him to Minnesota where he
finished his schooling. After a couple of years of farming and local
business experience he left home in 1869 for Colorado where in the
Boulder district he got his first job in a twenty stamp mill of the "Ni
Wot" mine and his first lessf)n in tlie field in which later he became so
commanding a figure.
For nearly five years he worked in Colorado mines taking advantage
of ever}- opportunity to improve his practical skill and to extend his
knowledge of lead mining, and when he went into the Eureka Con-
solidated Mine at Ruby Hill, Nevada, 1874, there were few so expert
as he in jjlacing a charge or driving a tunnel, and fewer still among his
companions with his keen and appreciative judgment of ore. It was
in fact a common saying around the camps that "Charley Canfield
didn't need any assayer to tell him if his 'prospect' had a pay streak."
On January 22, 1879, at Grand Island, Nebraska, he married Chloe,
(laughter of Oscar U. Wescott, whom he had first seen on a visit home
fouf years previously, and took her to Ruby Hill where they continued
to live until the birth of their first child, Florence, a year later, and on
to the spring of 1881 when reports of rich discoveries in the Southwest
swept them to Chloride, New Mexico.
Here Mr. Canfield entered u]3on a period of indefatigable and in-
telligent prospecting, contracting, leasing, which stretched over a long
five years of ups and downs such as would have used up a less hardy
man and utterly disheartened a less determined and courageous one, but
which lead finally to his discoverey of some very rich surface prospects
adjoining an undeveloped claim known as the "Comstock." Believing
these surface indications to be worth following up he secured a six months
lease on the claim giving a one-third interest each to a couple of local
miners — Barton and Rugg — who were to find the money for the de-
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velopment work. Little money was forthcoming however and nearly three
months passed with nothing to show for tlieir hard work but a bill for
powder and fuse which threatened to close them out.
The partners were for quitting but Caniield persisted in his reliance
on the promise of the prospects he had uncovered and would not quit.
So together the three went to the Percha Bank, at Kingston, where
Norman C. Raff, its cashier and part owner, loaned them on their joint
note the $100 needed to pay their bill and give them fresh credit for
more powder and grub.
Within the week they had "struck it" and within the month these
men who had experienced such difficulty in raising $100 were taking
$10,000 a day out of an ore chamber they had opened up, and which
became known throughout the greatly excited Black Range mining dis-
trict as the "Canfield Bonanza."
Probably half a million dollars in bullion was taken out of this
chamber within the remaining three months, and when the lease had
expired Mr. Canfield moved with his family early in 1887 to Los Angeles.
He had great faith in the future of this town and, as was his habit,
backed his judgment with his money, in this instance so heavily that in
the depression following the burst of a real estate boom Mr. Canfield
was unable to save his holdings or more than a comparative few dollars
of the comfortable fortune he had brought from New Mexico only two
years before.
The fact that Mr. Canfield's investments in 1888 included the block
at Seventh Street and Grand Avenue (now occupied by J. W. Robinson
& Co) suggests his remarkable judgment, his vision and his faith in the
future of Los Angeles.
Fortune had dealt him a terrible blow, but not a knock out ; he was
"broke," but not in spirit. With unfaltering faith in his ability to win
out, heartened by the courageous spirit of his plucky wife who remained
in Los Angeles to care for the five children, he took up again in 1890
the arduous trail of the prospector with its hopes and its hardships and
its disappointments, and followed it for two years in the Mojave Desert,
California, locating one or two mines which paid expenses but from
which no considerable money was ever taken.
It was during this period that Mr. Canfield ran across Edward L.
Doheny, an old mining friend of New Mexico days, on his way from
New Mexico to I^s Angeles, who, late in 1892, noticed oil exudes on
the west borders of Los Angeles and told of his discovery to Canfield
because, as he said years later, "I always had great faith in his general
mining knowledge, and when Canfield said they looked good he and I,
in November, 1892, began sinking the first well on the Pacific Coast
with simple picks and shovels at the comer of the present Lake Shore
Avenue and Patton Street."
This was the beginning of the business association — which con-
tinued to Mr. Canfield's death — of these two men so dissimilar in tem-
perament, yet so complementary one to the other and to the success of
the immense and daring projects upon which they subsequently em-
barked, and from this modest start it was too that these two men grew
in a few years to a commanding position in the oil producing world.
Later Mr. Canfield located, alone, and developed the Coalinga field
and then with Mr. Doheny opened the wells of Bakersfield. Still later
other companies were organized, Mexico unfolded a wealth of oppor-
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tunity and much outside money became a necessity to capitalize their
extended working plans and thus fully to realize upon the glowing pros-
pects of the new fields. In this undertaking Mr. Canfield's well known
judgment and established reputation of accomplishing what he set his
hand to do proved a mighty help in making it possible to finance opera-
tions on such gigantic scale.
At his death he shared with Mr. Doheny control of the Mexican
Petroleum, Huasteca Petroleum, American Oil Fields, California Petro-
leum, Bankers Oil, Mexican P'aving and Mexican Gas companies, besides
being the dominant figure in a number of other small companies.
His acknowledged business acumen and faith in the future of South-
ern California made him an eagerly sought stockholder and director and
his interests outside of oil grew gradually to be many, embracing well
nigh every new enterprise of merit launched on the southern coast.
He had an abiding love for land and was ever accumulating it and sup-
porting land developing companies until his acreage mounted into the
thousands scattered over the state, while his stock holdings included the
South Coast, Dolgeville, Harbor View, New Richmond land companies,
the Rodeo Land & Water and the Pacific Wharf & Storage companies.
In addition he was in a number of the more important banks of Southern
California including the Citizens National, Security Trust and Savings,
Farmers and Merchants of Los Angeles and the Southern Trust and
Commerce of San Diego, as well as the Merchants National Bank of
San Francisco, all of which constituted an extensive and valuable aggre-
gate and most of which expressed the builders impulse that held Mr.
Canfield so completely in possession.
His heart however was always with the oil game because it satisfied
that very impulse and represented to him the adventure and the energy
it had rquired to develop their properties at a time when eastern oil
interests were actively hostile and capital was exceedingly difficult to
obtain. In no sense was Mr. Canfield a "dollar chaser," and even after
great wealth had come to him he retained his democratic simplicity and
found more gratification in constructive labor itself than in the mere
money fruits of those labors.
He loved flowers and was proud of his fine gardens ; he loved
animals, especially driving horses, of which he had several finely bred
ones in his own stables ; he was a member of the Los Angeles Driving
Club and a generous patron of local matinee racing or amateur trotting,
for the encouragement of which he donated a large and handsome grand
stand at Exposition Park.
Mr. Canfield exemplified by his own life the principles that the
man of wealth owes a duty to his fellows. Always on the outlook to
lend a helping hand, his chief concern was the youth that had not had a
fair chance and the worthy who had been bowled over by hard luck.
He was one of the two chief supporters of the McKinley Home for Boys,
and in his will made generous provision for an especially equipped
school of training and research which his trustees are about to establish
for defective children.
Mr. Canfield's was the builder's vision. He walked in realms beyond
the comprehension of his associates. In the mines, the oil fields, the
directors room he was a clear headed advisor of remarkable constructive
ability, and everywhere he went was always a mighty agency for right.
He had a rare philosophy, a dry, delightful humor, a deeply rooted sense
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of justice. He was a man to be loved and trusted. In the words of the
Memoriam issued by his Mexican Petroleum associates : "He was more
than a partner, more than an associate in business, more than a fellow
worker ; he was a friend — kindly, serene, warm hearted and unfailingly
dependable."
Mr. Canfield was survived by the following children : Mrs. Caspar
Whitney, of New York ; Mrs. J. M. D.anziger, Mrs. S. M. Spalding
and Charles O. Canfield, of Los Angeles ; Mrs. J. H. Himes, of Canton,
O'hio, and also by an adopted daughter, Mrs. Raymond Cheseldine, of
London, Ohio.
Lois Weber. Those in a position to understand some of the many
forces at work in developing the destiny of the moving picture during the
past two decades have no hesitation in crediting Lois Weber with some
of the most forceful influences in realizing that stage of development
which this unique art has reached. Lois Weber belongs to Southern
California, and the headquarters of the "Lois Weber Productions" are
at 4634 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.
She was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and was educated for a
musical career. After four years of work and study on the legitimate
stage she came to the screen and early in her career met and married
Phillips Smalley, who co-directs with her. He is the oldest son of G. W.
Smalley, a former well-known war correspondent of the London Times,
and Phoebe Garnant, an adopted daughter of Wendell Phillips. The
only daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Smalley died in early
childhood.
Lois Weber and her husband were pioneers in motion picture
screen work. Miss Weber has written ninety-five per cent of all the
screen plays in which she has appeared or which she has directed during
the past thirteen years. The older devotees of the motion picture will
take pleasure in recalling the "Rex" brand of motion pictures which she
and her husband made famous.
Success in her work and profession have a distinctive meaning with
Miss Weber. Her greatest hope is that the screen will shortly be rec-
ognized and used as the best and finest medium for education, and accord-
ingly she has never been content to make pictures of a purely entertaining
quality, but has exerted every effort to uncover and' correct many existing
evils, and has braved criticism and persecution in her steadfast portrayal
of "Truth" on the screen as she understands it.
Some of the more notable of the recent Lois Weber productions
bear the following titles: "Where Are My Children," "Scandal,"
"Hypocrites," "Shoes," "Idle Wives," "The Price of a Good Time,"
■"For Husbands Ohly." Her latest production answers a pertinent ques-
tion in a manner calculated to argue away discontent. Its title is "What
Do Men Want."
Timothy John Keleher is a man who knows life, who knows
business, especially the insurance business, has been working for or
representing prominent fire insurance companies since early manhood,
and a few years ago, after suffering disaster when a bank in which he
had his funds deposited at San Francisco failed, he came to Los Angeles
and has built up a splendid business. His business headquarters are in
the Citizens National Bank Building.
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Mr. Keleher was born at Chicago November 23, 1884, a son of John
Timothy and Augusta (Garske) Keleher. His mother was born at
Berlin, Germany, and was about twelve years of age when she came to
the United States with her parents. The town of Garske in North
Dakota is named for an uncle who lived there. John Timothy Keleher
was born at Toronto, Canada, and for over thirty years has been in the
employ of the famous Simmonds Saw Manufacturing Company of San
Francisco. He was with that firm in Pittsburgh, later in Chicago, and
eighteen years ago became their special representative as superintendent
at San Francisco. He and his wife were married in St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral in Chicago and both are residents of San Francisco. They have two
children, Timothy John and Frances, tlie latter Mrs. C. H. Edwards of
San Francisco.
Timothy John Keleher acquired his education in Chicago and at
Wausau, Wisconsin, being a graduate of the Wisconsin Business College
in the latter city. For about four years he worked in the Chicago offices
of the Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York City. On
coming to the Pacific Coast he was at San Francisco with the German
Fire Insurance Company of Freeport, and at the time of the earthquake
and fire engaged in business for himself in that city. He "went broke"
when the California Safe Deposit Company failed.
Seeking a new field and a new start Mr. Keleher came to Los An-
geles in June, 1908, and his thorough knowledge of the business and
aggressiveness have put him in the possession of the state agency for
seven fire insurance companies, including the North River Insurance
Company, New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company, United States Fire
Insurance Company, Merchants Fire Assurance Corporation, New Jersey
Fire Insurance Company, United British Insurance Company, Ltd., and
Richmond Insurance Company.
Mr. Keleher is a republican in politics, a member of the Los An-
geles Athletic Club, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Glen-
dale parish of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Keleher was happily married April 24, 1910, in the Cathedral
at San Francisco. James Jordan was an Iowa farmer, and lost his life
when his team of horses ran away. His widow is now living at the
little town of Wagner in North Dakota. When James Jordan died he
left a daughter, Katherine J., fourteen years old. From that time forward
she became the sole support of her widowed mother and other children.
She taught school three years and later went to Chicago and was employed
by the Fisk Millinery Compam-. On one of her vacations she visited
the Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and on going back to Chicago she became
definitely committed to engagement for marriage with the "wild Irish-
man," as she affectionately calls her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Keleher
enjoy complete harmony of tastes as well as home associations. Mr.
Keleher is extremely fond of his home, and his hobby is flowers and
shrubbery. Their residence is at 528 North Louise Street in Glendale.
Mrs. Keleher is a member of the Ebell Club and also belongs to the
Auxiliary of the Elks and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Their two
children were both born at Glendale, Geraldine Katherine and Virginia
Frances.
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Mrs. Matthew S. Robertson is one of the prominent woman lead-
ers in Los Angeles society and club affairs. She is president of the larg-
est women's club of the city, the Ebell Club. She is also a member of
the Friday Morning Club, and has three times been elected president of
the Galpin Shakespeare Club. She carried the invitations of Los Angeles
from the Mayor, the Chamber of Commerce and various clubs to Mil-
waukee to the biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in
1900, and personally brought back the answer to her home city. Every
civic affair of importance enlists her keen interest and co-operation, and
her name is identified with a number of charitable organizations. Mrs.
Robertson has recently been appointed on the Executive Committee of
the City Planning Commission, and is the only woman on this committee.
Mrs. Robertson comes of a fine old Southern family, and for six
years was president of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Several years
ago she was a director of the Atlanta Exposition in her home state. Mrs.
Robertson was born at Calhoun, Georgia. Her father, Thomas W.
Skelly, was a graduate of Trinity College at Dublin, Ireland, and for a
number of years was connected with editorial staff of the New York
Sun. He was a man of great literary ability, distinguished as an educator,
and married into one of the aristocratic southern families. His wife
was Miss Anne Isabel Ardis, of Beach, Island, South Carolina.
Mrs. Robertson was educated in a convent at Atlanta. She uiar-
ried in Georgia in 1886 Matthew S. Robertson, a Georgia gentleman.
They have one son, Ardis Robertson, who was a captain in the United
States Army. He was one of the first to enlist at the Presideo in Sa'n
Francisco, went from there to Camp Donavan at Fort Sill, and after
being sent to France was the chief billeting officer for the division frorn
Fort Sill. He contracted pneumonia, was sent home on furlough, later
was to be returned to the front in France, but the armistice was signed.
Mrs. Mary Gish, who resides at 616 South Serrano Street in Los
Angeles, is the mother of two very famous daughters who reside with
her, Lillian and Dorothy Gish. It is perhaps needless to say that these
two girls are among the bright and particular stars in the world of art
today as pictured on the movie stage.
Lillian Gish was born at Springfield, Ohio, and Dorothy at Dayton
in that state.
Mrs. Gish and Mrs. Pickford have for many years been friends and
neighbors and their children grew up together. Later they went their
separate ways. After the girls had been away at school a year, Dorothy
in Virginia, the mother promised them a visit to New York. While there
they attended a picture show and then for the first time they had a view
of their early friend, Mary Pickford. The following day they called at
the Pick ford's studio, and though she was out Mr. Griffith received them
cordially and requested the privilege of taking their pictures. The fol-
lowing morning he telephoned them to come to the studio and invited
them to work in the moving pictures. Both girls were, of course, de-
lighted, and not long afterward they found Mary Pickford and family,
who were delighted that the Gish girls had decided to join them.
The Gish sisters entered the moving picture world in 1913 under
Mr. D. W. Griffith, then director of the Biograph. The Biograph at that
time had such stars as Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Lil-
lian Gish remained with the Biograph two years, and then went with
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Mr. Griffith in the Majestic, also the Fine Arts until he launched into
business for himself. The greatest pictures in which Lillian starred
were "Hearts of the World" and the "Birth of a Nation."
Dorothy Gish made her first appearance with the old Biograph Com-
pany in "The Mountain Rat." She also appeared in "Old Heidelberg"
and became one of the popular stars of the Fine Arts organization, ap-
pearing in "Atta Boy's Last Race," "Stage Struck," "The Little Yank,"
"Children of the Feud," "The Failure" and "That Colby Girl."
Dorothy Gish was chosen for an important role when Mr. Griffith
projected "The Birth of a Nation." Later'she achieved equal success
in "Intolerance," but came into her richly deserved fame as the little
French girl, Grizette in "Heart of the World." Her participation in
this last film necessitated a visit to Europe. Mrs. Gish accompanied the
girls and they were there eight months. On the voyage over they passed
through the submarine zone, and during five days spent in London were
witnesses of an aeroplane raid in which many places were destroyed,
including a schoolhouse where ninety-three children were killed. "Hearts
of the World" was taken in a village ten miles behind the firing line
where they could hear the shells explode all the day. The parts of the
film used in the picture showing the activities of the German armies were
German made films captured by the Allies. The scene of the dugout is
an exact reproduction of the Crown Prince's dugout, which was captured
by the Allies.
Dorothy Gish is now a star with the Paramount organization, has a
company of her own, and has made two films, entitled "The Hope Chest,"
and "Battling Jane." Plans are being made for other films, the scenes
of which are laid in France and Italy. Lillian Gish is at this writing
finishing a new pictures, which has not yet received its title.
losEPH TopLiTzKV. though prominently connected as a Los Angeles
real estate man, was in early life a promising actor on the stage and his
introduction to Southern California was in theatrical circles.
He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, December 25, 1884, a
son of Meyer and Ida Toplitzky. He attended public schools to the
age of fourteen, but beginning at ten was playing child parts with stock
and other companies, and continued his work with the theatre until 1900.
He performed in companies of such celebreties as Andrew Mack, Chaun-
'Cev Olcott, Otis Skinner, Sir Henry In-ing and the late James Neill.
Mr. Toplitzky came to Los Angeles with his parents in 1900, being
then sixteen years of age, and was soon employed as an usher at the
Los Angeles Theatre with H. C. Wyatt. Later he was with the Mason
Theatre and in time had achieved the responsibilities of assistant to Mr.
Wyatt. He left the theatre in 1911 to engage in the general real estate
business, and since then has handled downtown and acreage propeny and
has been markedly successful in this field. He is president of the Cross
Land Company, is interested in several oil properties and has offices in
the H. W. Hellman Building.
Mr. Toplitzky is a republican in politics. July 10, 1912, he married
Elsie B. Crossley and they have one daughter, Beth, born in 1918.
John P. Jones. California forty-niner, former United States Sena-
tor from Nevada, justly called "the father of western development." John
P. Jones of Santa Monica has a great and impressive dignity as a figure
in western history.
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Of Welsh stock, he was born in Herefordshire, England, near the
Welsh border, January 27, 1829, son of Thomas and Mary (Pugh) Jones,
who came to America in his infancy. He was reared at Cleveland, had
a common school education, but life itself gave to him an education, such
as no university in the world could bestow. The circumstances that led
him to come to California are best recounted in his own words: "Times
were bad just before the discovery of gold in California. It was the era
following the Mexican war, prices were down to the lowest ebb, and there
was little available money in the country. The bottom almost dropped
out of everything, and many of the young men decided to seek new fields
of endeavor in some other part of our country. I was twenty years of
age at the time, living with rny family in Cleveland, which at that time
was a village of only one thousand people. I contracted the 'California
fever,' as it was called, and a party of us banded together and sailed
in the one hundred sixty ton lake schooner Eureka for the coast of
California. We sailed from Cleveland, going through the Welland Canal
and down the St. Lawrence. The voyage was made around Cape Horn,
and though it was a long, hard trip it was filled with interest for us all,
and we reached California in September, 1849, in the same little bark in
which we had left Cleveland. I immediately scampered for the gold
fields."
He enjoyed the rough life of the mining districts and for a number
of years, until 1867, lived in Trinity county, and was elected by his fel-
low miners as sheriff. That was his first important office, and for more
than forty years he was almost constantly in some oilfice of public trust.
He served as a member of the State Senate of California from 1863 to
1867, and in the latter year moved to Nevada, where he engaged in the
development of mines, though in later years his mining interests ex-
tended to Alaska, Mexico and Central America.
In 1872 Mr. Jones was elected United States Senator from Nevada,
and was in the Senate consecutively for thirty years, a service seldom
exceeded by length in the history of that body. More than that he was
one of the most forceful figures of this august organization. He went to
Washington when many of the issues of the Civil War were still problems
of national discussion, and gave a vigorous dissent to other members of
the republican party on the subject of the "Force Bill." But the chief
influence he exercised in that body was his authoritative knowledge of
finance and economic questions. Many of the ideas which he skillfully
advocated years ago have developed as permanent policies of the nation,
including the Federal Reserve Bank, elastic currency. He was an ardent
bimetallist, and it was his views on that subject that caused him to sep-
arate himself from the republican party, though he reaffiliated with the
republicans when the money question ceased to be an issue. As a member
of the International Monetary Commission which met in the city of
Brussels, Belgium, he was author of the gold-silver report said to be the
most conclusive documentary presentation of the facts on record.
Senator Jones proved to be one of the stanchest friends of the old
soldiers of the Civil War, and the Soldiers' Home near Los Angeles owes
its existence largely to his well directed efforts and plans beginning in
1887. He donated four hundred fifty acres of ground as a site for the
institution.
Only rarely does a single life involve so much history as that of
Senator Jones. As a concise review of the high points in his career per-
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haps the best account is that which appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner
December 25, 1910.
"Senator Jones is the oldest young man in America today — that is
to say, he is eighty-one years young, and 'everybody who is anybody' also
knows that the Nevada Commoner, as he is affectionately called by his
intimates, is living his well earned ease in his magnificent villa at Santa
Monica, enjoying peaceful and happy years after his long service in the
United States Senate. Thirty years in the Senate brought Senator Jones
a reputation for statesmanship of the practical, constructive kind capable
of grasping large problems of state during the period of far western
formation ; and now in his advanced years the wisdom that he gained
throughout his long, varied and honorable life makes him one of the
nation's sages in retirement. A visit to Senator Jones is consequently
something to be looked to with pleasurable anticipation, nor is the visitor
disappointed ; for in spite of his large wealth and many honors Senator
Jones retains always his spirit of democracy, being still one of the plain
people — a hale, hearty American. It is to be regretted by all lovers of
American history that Senator Jones will not write his memoirs. He has
been many times asked to do so but has persisted in his refusal. Briefly,
his objection is that writing is a serious business that should be left in
the hands of a few persons who are filled with the high resolve to write
history in exact terms. The senator is by nature so thorough that he
would not attempt to tell the story of the past unless he refreshed him-
self with the exact details in each instance, and this, of course, would
necessitate an examination of hundreds of records ; and at his time of hfe
he has no inclination for such serious study. He owes himself leisure.
"Senator Jones enjoys life in his magnificent mansion overlooking
the ocean at Santa Monica, and from the broad veranda the scene is in-
spiring, with its sweep of sea and shore for many miles. It is such a
home as a modern philosopher might well choose as a safe retreat from
the world, within easy access of a great city, yet far enough away to
insure peace and quietude. Here, with his beautiful home and his ex-
tensive garden of palms and other semi-tropical trees, fruits and flowers.
Senator Jones may well recall at times the historic past, through an
epoch-making period bristling with momentous issues in which he played
a personal part of national importance. Senator Jones still has the quick
penetrating gaze that was characteristic of the stirring mine superinten-
dent at the great Crown Point mines in the days when the 'bonanza
kings' had yet their everlasting fortunes to dig from the silver lodes in
the bowels of the earth. And the figure of the old Comstock days, run-
ning into the hundreds of millions, fabulous as they seem, are verified
by his personal experience. 'It was not that the ore was so extraordinarily
rich, as some writers say, but because of its tremendous quantity,' said
Senator Jones, many years after, in reply to questions on this phase of
his many-sided life' He passed quickly, however, to other topics, for
it is characteristic — and in this he differs sharply from all other American
sages — that Senator Jones will not indulge in what are commonly termed
reminiscences. He is more likely to ask his visitor the latest news than
to go back into the distant past in his own well stocked memories. As a
result there is a 'down-to-the-minute' aspect about his talk that is as
surprising as it is unexpected.
"Pioneer, gold-seeker, sheriff of Trinity County in the early days,
politician in state and nation, friend of great characters such as Grant,
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Conkling, Blaine, Harrison, Zach Chandler, Sumner, Thurman, Allison,
Hale and many others of the Old Guard; familiar with the inner sig-
nificance of that inner and astute accomplishment known by the softer
name of diplomacy ; and informed in the secrets of the department of
state in regard to many matters of American history- — such for example,
as those involved when President Harrison appointed Senator Jones as a
delegate to the international monetary commission at Brussels — in spite
of all this prodigious, many sided background of history, as well as of
social anecdote, Senator Jones remains true to his determination not to
put pen to paper with his observations and revelations of men and mem-
ories of the past.
"From early days Senator Jones had to struggle for his success. No
man ever gave him opportunities that did not have to be worked out by
unceasing diligence in order to win, and in the many conflicting and
difficult scenes and situations through which he has passed he has shown
his strength as a man of sagacity and resourcefulness. His are the
hearty, straightforward ways of the 'forty-niner,' and he knew all the
famous old characters in San Francisco and in the mining camps through-
out the vast district that in later years was to be carved into the states
of Nevadah, Utah and Oregon, as well as California. As he sits by his
fireside and smokes his cigar, in mental review passes a long procession
of strange characters — rough mining men, now and then interspersed
with some figure that was destined to become historic in the marts of
trade or finance, such as the Crockers, Huntingtons, Floods, Fields, Mack-
ays and the other gold or silver kings half a century ago ; and then the
scene changes and under the shadow of the dome of the capitol the
Senator beholds before the eye of imagination other great figures on the
national stage, in the stirring days of reconstruction — names that the
lover of his country will not willingly let die. And among the names that
will ever be marked on the roll of national honors and national services
of an enduring kind, the foundation stone in the upbuilding of more than
one far western commonwealth, is that of Senator John P. Jones, the
sage of Califoria, pioneer of 'the days of old, the days of gold, the days
of '49,' who in spite of the honorable weight of eighty years is still a
man of the passing moment, in touch with the deep-moving currents
of the hour.
"A veritable sage under his own vine and fig tree, surrounded by
his many admiring friends and enjoying the esteem of thousands of
Americans, from ocean to ocean, Senator Jones is rounding out of life of
singular heights, lights and shadows of fortune: past misfortunes are
now long swept away, and he may enjoy his well earned leisure as guide,
philosopher and friend. What memories of our nation's great men,
what spirited incidents, what history-making epochs now pass in reminis-
cent view before his mind, linking him with the forces that built up the
far west — while in the usefulness of his life rather than in any personal
reward Senator Jones finds his real and enduring satisfaction. Long
after he has passed from the scene his work will live after him, for it
has been of the sort that endures, laying, as he did, some of the great
foundation stones of our far eastern commonwealths — stones which,
though invisible, are necessary to the support of the broad structures that
have come afterward and on which men are still building higher, till the
ultimate, perfect plan comes within the ken of a happy and contented
people who will one day enjoy all the blessings foreseen as in a vision
by such fathers of the republic as John Percival Jones."
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D. M. LiNNARD. It is only obvious logic to assert that Southern
California would represent only a small part of its present significance
to the world at large if its hotel facilities and comforts had lingered
behind other phases of development. Hundreds of the men who have
become permanent residents and have given their business ability and re-
sources to the improvement of Los Angeles and the state gained their
first liking for this country on account of the comforts they enjoyed in
its hotels.
No one man has done more to convert the hotels into a great and
vital asset, particularly at Pasadena, which for years has been one of the
world's most noted winter resorts, than D. M. Linnard, who is now man-
aging director and executive head of corporations capitalized at twenty-
five million dollars, with half a dozen splendid hotels in California and
in the East.
Mr. Linnard began his career as a landlord in Pasadena. It is
appropriate to review briefly the hotel history of Pasadena. The first
hotel, a small one known as the Lake Vineyard House, was erected in
1880. Four years later T. E. Martin of San Jose built the Webster Hotel
at the corner of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, and subsequently
this became the Grand. During the early eighties Mrs. Emma C. Bangs
bought several acres between Orange Grove Avenue and Arroyo Seco,
below what is now Colorado Street, and conducted a boarding and room-
ing house there. After her death in 1903 the Crown City Investment
Company bought the property and subsequently built what is now the
Vista Del Arroyo Hotel. Walter Raymond opened the Raymond Hotel
in 1886 at a cost of four hundred thousand dollars. This was really
Pasadena's first tourist hotel. It was burned in 1895 but subsequently re-
built on a larger scale. In 1886 was also opened the Carlton, built by a
syndicate. The Painter was put up near the foothills in 1887, the name
being changed later to La Pintoresca. It was burned December 31, 1912,
and was never rebuilt.
What later became the Green Hotel was started in 1887 by E. C.
Webster. Colonel Green took over the property in 1891, and the present
Green contains five hundred rooms and is famed the world over.
In 1900 D. M. Linnard in order to learn the hotel business managed
a Pasadena boarding house, a large one, but far from being a hotel. In
less than twenty years he has become one of the greatest hotel men in
the West and in fact in the entire country. He has had a genius for
consolidation of hotels and systematic management of enormous prop-
erties. For a time he had the management of the old La Case Grande
Hotel, and in 1903 bought the first unit of what is now the Maryland,
which had been built a year or two before by Colin Stewart. He at once
started on a general plan of enlargement, vastly increasing the size and
facilities of the Maryland. He also conceived the idea of an auxiliary
bungalow system to supplement and improve the service of the main
hotel. At the present there are thirty-four bungalows on an eight-acre
tract, all operated in connection with the Maryland. The original Mary-
land was burned April 18, 1914, but was at once rebuilt, with the splendid
structure which thousands know and have patronized as their home in
California. Myron Hunt was the architect of the present Maryland.
Henry E. Huntington in 1914 bought what was known as the Went-
worth Hotel, then incompleted because of financial difficulties encoun-
tered by the firm of promoters. Mr. Huntington took it over after a
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million dollars had been expended, engaged the service of Architect
Myron Hunt, and in 1914 the present Huntington was opened with D. M.
Linnard as manager.
In 1917 Mr. Linnard organized the Cahfornia Hotel Company with a
capitaHzation of four million dollars. He and members of his family-
held most of the stock. The company bought the Huntington with its
four hundred and fifty rooms, and the Green with its five hundred rooms,
and since then he has operated them as well as the Maryland, which
contains four hundred rooms. In the same year he took the management
of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, subsequently acquiring the lease,
furnishings and equipment. In the winter of 1918-19 he assumed the
management of the Palace Hotel at San Francisco, and then bought the
Potter at Santa Barbara and renamed it the Belvedere. In June, 1919,
the Ambassador at Atlantic City was opened under Mr. Linnard's man-
agement, and the same month he completed negotiations for the erection
of a six hundred room hotel in New York to cost ten million dollars,
to be called the Linnard. He also let the contract for a five million
dollar hotel in Los Angeles to be known as the California.
In less than twenty years the Linnard name and the service it
represents have become an institution on the Pacific Coast and also at
two of the most congested travel centers of the Atlantic seaboard.
Francis S. Montgomery engaged in the practice of law in the City
of Los Angeles shortly after his graduation in Georgetown University,
District of Columbia, and while he made an admirable and successful
record in the work of his profession, the impaired health of his father-
in-law, Victor Ponet, led him to assume active supervision of the latter's
large and varied capitalistic and business interests in the year 1912, and
since that time this service has demanded the major part of his time
and attention. He maintains his residence at Hollywood. He is now
the president of the Ponet Company, with headquarters in Los Angeles.
Mr. Montgomery was born at Concordia, Kansas, June 23, 1878,
and is a son of Pius L. and Sarah (Stanton) Montgomery. The late
Archbishop George Montgomery, who served as bishop of the Catholic
diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, California, from 1894 to 1903,
was the eldest brother of him whose name initiates this sketch.
Francis S. Montgomery acquired his preHminary education in the
parochial and pubHc schools of his native place, and in the furtherance
of his higher academic education he completed a course in the college
of arts of Creighton University, in the City of Omaha, Nebraska, from
which institution he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. He then entered Georgetown University, District of Columbia, in
which great institution he pursued courses both in philosophy and law
and from which he was graduated in 1907, with the degrees of Doctor
of Philosophy and Bachelor of Laws. Shortly after his graduation he
came to California and was admitted to the bar in this state. Thereafter
he was engaged in practice at Los Angeles until, as already noted, he
assumed executive duties in connection with the business affairs of his
father-in-law.
Mr.' Montgomery gives his political allegiance to the republican party.
He and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is
affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, besides being a member of the
Newman Club in Los Angeles.
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On the 3d of July, 1907, at St. Victor's Church, Hollywood, Cali-
fornia, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Montgomery to Miss Gertrude
Ponet. Mrs. Montgomery received the best of educational advantages in
her youth. She attended one of the leading convent schools in the City
of Los Angeles, and later was a student in a representative Catholic
educational institution in the City of San Francisco, besides which she
attended Notre Dame Convent in the City of Brussels, Belgium. Mr.
and Mrs. Montgomery have traveled somewhat extensively since their
marriage, but they never fail in appreciation of and loyalty to their home
state. They have four children, Victor Ponet, George Francis, Francis
Joseph and William John. The year 1920 finds the eldest son a student
in the Academy of the Holy Name at Santa Monica, he being eleven
years of age, and George Francis, aged ten, and Francis Joseph, aged
seven, are likewise attending this institution, the youngest son bemg four
years of age at the time of the preparation of this article. On other
pages will be found a memoir to the late Victor Ponet, father of Mrs.
Montgomery.
Victor Ponet. It was well within the powers and ambition of
the late Victor Ponet to have marked the passing years with large and
worthy achievement, and he was one of the honored and influential pioneer
citizens of California at the time of his death, which occurred on the
7th of February, 1914. He was in the most significant degree the archi-
tect of his own fortunes, and in his progressive career in California
his activities conserved not only his individual success but also the well
being of the communty at large.
Victor Ponet was born in Lemburg, Belgium, on the 9th of March,
1836, a son of Lawrence and Gertrude A. (Wauters) Ponet, his father
having been a farmer by vocation and having served as a soldier under
the great Napoleon. In the excellent schools of his native land Victor
Ponet continued his studies until he had attained to the age of seventeen
years, after which he served a three years' apprenticeship to the trade of
cabinet-maker, in which he became a skilled artisan. After having
followed his trade several years in the City of Paris, France, his ambition
and self-reliance led him in 1865 to come to the United States. He
readily found employment at his trade in New York City, where he
remained until 1867, when he came to California. He made the journey
by way of the Isthmus of Panama and thence proceeded up the coast
to San Francisco, where he remained two years. He then came to Los
Angeles and entered vigorously and loyally into the civic and business
affairs of the city, which then had a population of not more than 4,500
people. In 1885 he sold his business and thereafter he passed two years
in making a tour of Europe, in connection with which he found special
satisfaction in visiting his old home in Belgium. For many years Mr.
Ponet and his wife maintained their home on a ranch southwest of the
City of Los Angeles, and much of this land is now included within the
corporate limits of the cit)', their residence having been situated at
the juncture of the present Alvarado and Pico streets. Eventually Mr.
Ponet subdivided this property and effected its improvement, and he
finally removed to his fine ranch at West Hollywood, which continued to
be his place of abode during the remainder of his life. His substantial
financial success was gained largely through his w'ise investments in real
estate in Los Angeles County, the same having greatly increased in value
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with the remarkable development and upbuilding of this favored section
of California. In the early period of his residence in Los Angeles he
purchased Fiesta Park, bounded by Pico Street, Twelfth Street, Grand
Avenue and Hope Street. On this property he erected one of the hand-
some apartment buildings of the city, and the former park is now known
as Ponet Square, upon which the family has erected a modern hotel
building and eight automobile structures, among the best in Los Angeles.
At West Hollywood he purchased a large tract of land upon which he
built a spacious and beautiful country house, and he made this one of
the ideal places of the county. He accumulated other valuable ranch
properties, as well as other realty in the City of Los Angeles, and his
liberality in the handling and improving of his various properties con-
tributed much to the material development and civic prosperity of Los
Angeles.
Mr. Ponet was a man who had fine appreciation of the personal
stewardship which success involves, and his gracious character was shown
in unostentatious benevolences and charities, as well as in earnest and
liberal support of the various activities of the Catholic Church in this
diocese. Mr. and Mrs. Ponet deeded the land and erected on the same
the present edifice of St. Victor's Church, and made both land and
building a gift to the diocese.
Mr. Ponet was one of the organizers of the German-American Sav-
ings Bank of Los Angeles, an institution now bearing the corporate title
of the Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank. He became a director of the
bank, and in 1894 he was elected its president, a position of which he
continued the incumbent three years. He was one of the organizers
also of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and gave liberally of
his time and money in fostering and developing the new institution,
of which he served many years as a trustee. He took lively and helpful
interest in all things touching the welfare of Los Angeles and all of
Southern California, and was essentially a broad-minded, liberal and
public-spirited citizen. He was a most zealous communicant of the
Catholic Church, he was affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and
he held membership in the Newman and Jonathan clubs.
He served many years as a representative of Belgian consular inter-
ests at Los Angeles. On the 5th day of January, 1894, he was appointed
consular agent at Los Angeles, and on the 31st of December, 1897, he
was made Belgian vice-consul for Southern California and Arizona. On
the 20th of May, 1906, there came to him distinguished recognition from
the ruler of his native land, as on that date King Leopold of Belgium
conferred on him the knightly honor of Chevalier de L'Ordre de Leopold.
In politics Mr. Ponet was well fortified in his convictions and gave his
allegiance to the republican party. A man of integrity and honor in
all the relations of life, he left an enduring and worthy impress upon
the history of the city and county of Los Angeles, where he gained
pioneer prestige and proved also an apo.stle of progress.
In the year 1874 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ponet to Miss
Ellen J. Manning, a native of Irfeland, and she survived him by five
years — a woman whose gentle and gracious personality endeared her
to all who came within the sphere of her influence. Mrs. Ponet remained
at the beautiful home in West Hollywood until she too was summoned
to the life eternal, on the 18th of February, 1919. She had passed her
seventieth year and her funeral obsequies were held at St. Vibiana's
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Cathedral, Los Angeles, in the work of which parish she had been active
in early years, with a record for unassuming support of charitable and
benevolent agencies. Gertrude, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ponet,
is now the wife of Francis S. Montgomery, of whom individual mention
is made on the preceding page of this work. Rev. William Ponet, C. M.,
a foster son of the subject of this memoir, was afforded the best of educa-
tional advantages, prepared himself for and was ordained to the priest-
hood of the Catholic Church, and now holds a pastoral charge in the
City of San Diego, California.
Col. Cave J. Couts. While some of his sons and daughters
are prominently connected socially and in business at Los Angeles, the
chapters in the life of the late Col. Cave J. Couts which especially
concern the history of Southern California were written in and around
San Diego. Among the earliest Americans in Southern California
Colonel Couts was distinguished not only as a former military man and
officer of the United States Army but by extraordinary business ability
and many qualities of personal charm.
He was born near Springfield, Tennessee, November 11, 1821, and
in that locality his parents also spent their lives. His early education was
supervised by his uncle, Cave Johnson, who was a member of President
Polk's cabinet as Postmaster General. At the age of seventeen he was
appointed a cadet in West Point Military' Academy and graduated in
1843, being commissioned a brevet second lieutenant of the regiment of
Mounted Rifles. He was on frontier duty at Fort Jesup, Indiana, and
in 1845 was sent with a detachment of recruits to Fort Washita in Indian
Territory. In the meantime he was commissioned second lieutenant of
the First Dragoons, and did frontier duty at Evansville, Arkansas, and
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, until February, 1847. He was then made
first lieutenant of the First Dragoons, and during the war with Mexico
was on duty along the frontier, passing through Mexico and Arizona
to California, crossing the Colorado River on Sunday, November 26,
1848, it taking him three days to cross his regiment. In this connection
it is well to mention what appears in his sketch book of line of travel,
which is amusing as well as showing his resourcefulness. "Crossing
Colorado — used a couple of rafts viz: Felix Grunay No. 2 and Pawnow
dash ; also a small row boat made of the body of a wagon and covered
with leather — the "Pawnew Flirt" — swam horses and mules about three
miles above, could pass but one wagon, or five horses, at a trip on the
raft — 'F. G. No. 2,' only used as a wharf boat — swam some horses at
same place. Landing on this side (west) very bad, as far up and down
as examined, being an uninterrupted quick sand. Considerable quantity
of cane a short distance from river, and 'screw beans' in abundance,
which might be said to have saved us. * * * Colorado water very
good, though at seasons when very low, 'tis said to be so bad that it
will kill man and beast to use it."
It would appear from this article that Colonel Couts established the
first "Ferry" across the Colorado and from information that he then
gathered, it is quite evident that the Colorado must, in times, prior_ to
1848, have run very low. After confronting many obstacles and enduring
much hardship crossing the desert between Colorado and the mountains,
he reached Los Angeles with his command on Sunday, January 9, 1849.
and the following notation in his sketchbook of line of travel following
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this information is also found : "From Chihuahua to Los Angeles, 1,057
miles ; from Monterey, Mexico, to Chihuahua, 556 miles ; from Monterey,
Mexico, to Los Angeles, 1,613 miles. Colonel Couts served about San
Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Rey to 1851. In 1849 he conducted an
expedition to the Gila River and was in charge of the Boundary Survey
between the United States of Mexico, stationed at the junction of the
Colorado and Gila Rivers or "Camp Calhoun." While on duty there he
was complimented by his superior officers in dealing with the Indians
and assisting the emigrants. On August 1, 1849, he was elected a dele-
gate from San Diego, in accordance with proclamation of Brevet Briga-
dier General B. Riley, Governor of California, to form a state con-
stitution or plan for a territorial government.
Until thirty years of age his life was that of the soldier, but on
April 5, 1851, he married Miss Ysidora Bandini, daughter of Don Juan
Bandini of San Diego. The October following his marriage he resigned
his commission as a first lieutenant in the regular army, but soon after-
ward was appointed colonel and aide de camp on the staff of Governor
Bigler, accounting for the military title with which his friends honored
him.
Colonel Couts has been described as a man of commanding figure, a
little over six feet tall, straight, willowy and active, a perfect horseman,
making a splendid appearance as a cavalry officer, and with the natural
instincts of a gentleman supplemented by a thorough education. He was
devoted to his family and in every transaction betrayed a strict integrity,
though he was also a genial companion, fond of music and dancing and
a popular figure in social circles. There are some interesting reminders
of his methodical business habits. One is a class album containing the
autographs of all who were in West Point during his student days.
Another is a well written journal of his trip across the country from In-
dian Territory to San Diego, this journal being illustrated with views
along the route, drawn by his own pen and showing that the Gila River
must, at that time, have been considered the boundary between the United
States and Mexico. Casa Grande in Arizona was then known as the
seven-story temple or Aztec Castle. Only three of these pictures have
been published, those of old San Diego, the Mission of San Diego and the
Mission of San Luis Rey, all as they appeared in 1850. Lithograph
copies of some of these have been widely distributed. On the long list
of names of his fellow students at West Point are the signatures of many
who became distinguished in the Civil war and in American politics and
affairs, such as U. H. Grant (afterwards U. S. Grant). D. H. Hill. W. S.
Hancock, F. Denman, Henry M. Judah, James Allen Hardie, R. W.
Johnston and J. P. Johnston, C. Benjamin. Earl Van Dorn, A. P. Stewart,
John Y. Bicknell, H. Clement Story, W. L. Crittenden, J. Bolivar Buck-
ner, James Longstreet.
However, the most interesting part of his story is that which re-
lates to the development he instituted in San Diego county. He was one
of the first to discover that the climate and soil of that county were
adapted to all kinds of agriculture and horticulture. He was the first to
plant an orchard on a large scale with the improved varieties of fruits,
and for years his was the only orange grove in San Diego County. About
two years after leaving the army he lived at old San Diego, where he
served a term as county judge. In 1853 he and his family, consisting
of his wife and two children, moved to Guajome. Guajome was an
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Indian grant containing 2,219 acres made by the Mexican Government
to Andres, an Indian, and to his two sisters. It was bought by Mrs. Don
Abel Stearns of Los Angeles and by her presented to Mrs. Couts as a
wedding present. In the Indian language the word means "Home of
the frog." When Colonel Couts took possession of it in 1852 there was
not a sign of a tree, and it was his initiative and enterprise that later
covered the tract with orchards, among them several of the tropical
fruits, and as the "Chicomoya" or "Anona," "Marego," "Aguacate" (al-
ligator plant) and several others, also vineyards and other groves. He
put up a camp on the land, made some willow poles and a few boards
taken from San Diego, and that served him while he was building more
commodious structures. As there was no running water on the land he
dug a hole with a spade, and later enlarged that hole to a pond one hun-
dred feet in diameter and seven feet deep, which had a constant flow of
water, much of it used for irrigation purposes. Colonel Couts was spe-
cial Indian agent, resigning on August 10, 1856, after having made a
full report to the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs and calling
attention to the condition of the "poor Indian" and making suggestions
that, had they been exercised, the Indians would not have been wronged
or, as might be said, practically exterminated by the invasion of the
white man.- — San Luis Rey and San Diego wherein each contained about
2,500 Indians. He also had the supervision of a large number of Indians
in and around San Luis Rey, who loved and feared him. He commanded
their services and labors, and from the labor of some three hundred In-
dians constructed an immense adobe house built in a square containing
twenty rooms, with a court yard filled with orange and lemon trees and
varieties of flowers. The same labor erected barns, stables, sheds and
corrals and also servants' quarters, and finally a neat chapel was dedi-
cated to the worship of God. Perhaps due to his military training, he
had an almost infallible ability in managing and controlling Indians. He
instituted system and order everywhere and visitors frequently knew
without being told that "Don Cuevas," as he was generally called, was
a military man. He also accumulated thousands of cattle, hundreds of
horses and mules and many sheep, and purchased the San Marcos, Buena
Vista and La Joya ranches, besides about eight hundred acres of Govern-
ment land adjoining his homestead. Altogether his estate aggregated
about twenty thousand acres. He was prospering until the passage of
the "no fence law." which practically ruined him financially and he was
compelled to sell his livestock at a tremendous sacrifice. He was just
beginning to recover from this disaster when death came to him while
at the Horton House in San Diego July 10, 1874. The tragedy of his
useful career was that he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his
toil and the expenditure of thousands of dollars in developing what
might properl)^ be considered a paradise.
Colonel Couts was one of twelve children, his wife was one of ten,
and their own family consisted of ten sons and daughters, namely: Abel
Stearns Couts, who died in 1855, when nearly four years of age; Maria
Antonia, widow of Colonel Chalmers Scott, of Los Angeles ; William B.,
manager of the Baker Estate Realty Company of Los Angeles ; Cave J.
Jr., a civil engineer by profession, living at Guajome in San Diego coun-
ty ; Nancy Dolores, who died in 1868, at the age of eleven ; Ysidora For-
ster Fuller, widow of the late Judge Fuller, of Los Angeles, where she
resides ; Elena, Mrs. Parker Dear, of Alhambra ; Robert Lee, of Los
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Angeles, who died March 18, 1920; John Forster, of San Diego; and
Caroline, wife of J. B. Winston, of Los Angeles.
Colonel Couts was fortunate in finding a companion and wife with
many of the noblest traits of her sex and her race. Ysidora Bandini
continued to live on the old homestead at Guajome after the death of
her husband until she passed away in the spring of 1897, and showed
marvelous skill in managing the property through the trying years of
her early widowhood. She came of a family renowned for physical and
mental strength and beauty, and at the time of her marriage she was
regarded as the most beautiful young woman in Southern California.
Her father, Don Juan Bandini, was a prominent official under the Mexi-
can Government living at San Diego, where Mrs. Couts was born. He
was highly educated and early foresaw the results of the war with
Mexico and was one of the first Southern Californians to ally themselves
with the Americans. Three of his daughters, one of them Mrs. Couts,
made the first American flag hoisted at San Diego. Mrs. Couts' grand-
father, Don Jose Bandini, was a native of old Spain and an admiral in
the Spanish Navy, being stationed on the Pacific Coast and was in com-
mand in Peru when Don Juan, the father of Mrs. Couts, was born. The
Bandini family were originally Italian.
F. A. Gesell has contributed an idea and a plan which have at-
tracted much attention in the conservative financial circles as something
distinctly new in encouraging and promoting thrift, which in the final
estimate is the salvation of a nation as well as of the individual.
A number of banks in the United States are now featuring and have
incorporated in their regular banking policy what is known as "Victory
Account." Described briefly, a Victory Account is a savings account plus
the protection of insurance. Hitherto people have used banks as a means
of provision against poverty in old age, and others have employed in-
surance companies as a protection against death. Under the plan worked
out by Mr. Gesell the Victory Account represents the valuable element in
both the old plans. The Victory Account is protected by patents and
also copyright.
Its principle is based on the fact that it is easier to deposit three dol-
lars eighty-four cents a month and have forty-six dollars eight cents
at the end of the year than to try to put forty-six dollars and eight cents
into the bank the last week of the year. Such a deposit made regularly
for a hundred twenty months with accumulated interest gives a with-
drawal value of five hundred dollars, but with the distinctive additional
feature of the Victory Account that the depositor or some other member
of his family is, from the time of making the first deposit, insured so
that if death occurs the bank immediately calls upon the insurance com-
pany to make up the dift'erence between the amount on deposit and its
total objective, that is in the above example five hundred dollars.
In further explanation of the subject the following is quoted from
Investment Reviezv:
"Heretofore the most efifective method of saving has been throug^h
the savings account or life insurance, and statistics show that in the
United States only about ninety-nine people out of each thousand have
a savings account while the proportion having life insurance is far less.
Life insurance has not been primarily retrarded as a method of saving
and there has long been a need for something which would impress the
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American public with the vital necessity of systematic saving and in-
suring."
The Company introducing the Victory Account to banks is headed
by F. A. Gesell and Boyle Workman, one of Los Angeles best known
financiers who was connected with the Home Savings Bank in official
capacity for twelve years. They have associated with them a number
of bankers and other men prominent in the affairs of the Coast.
About fifty banks in California, Michigan, Indiana and New Jersey
have adopted the Victory Account, and consequently their service to the
public now comprises checking accounts, Victory savings accounts and
the regular forms of savings accounts. The corporation does not do
business or come in contact with the public but simply furnishes the bank
with advertising literature, Victory Account deposit books, etc. The
Victory Account is spreading over the United States very rapidly. More
recently the people of the Southwest have come to associate the name of
F. A. Gesell with another great movement and undertaking, as one of the
vice presidents of the League of the Southwest. The president and vice
presidents of this League include the governors of eight of the southwest-
ern states in addition to Mr. Gesell. Mr. Gesell is credited with exercis-
ing much influence in building up the League from a small to a large
organization, and he was largely responsible for the holding of the great
convention of the League in Los Angeles on April 1, 2 and 3 of 1920.
That convention was the making of the League of the Southwest a large
and substantial organization.
The League is a non-political alliance between the states of Arizona,
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah
to foster closer social and commercial relations and to link the com-
munities of the southwest in a spirit of brotherhood and the promotion
of the civic, commercial and social interests of the territory.
Mr. Gesell, whose business headquarters are in the Garland Building
at Los Angeles, is also identified with one of the substantial producing
oil companies of the West and was active in its organization.
John T. Gaffey. A resident of California since he was seven years
of age, John T. Gafifey has had a career of many interesting phases. He
has been a practical newspaper man, has filled many public offices both
appointive and elective, and has directed many large business affairs,
though now practically retired.
Mr. Gaffey whose home is at San Pedro, was born in Galway, Ire-
land, November 1, 1860, son of Thomas and Ann E. (Tracy) Gaffey.
His mother's family was of old Norman Irish stock in Ireland while his
father was Scotch Irish. In 1867 the mother brought her seven children
by sailing vessel to America, and by way of the Isthmus of Panama landed
at San Francisco. Going to Santa Cruz she bought a large cattle and
sheep ranch. It was in this environment that John T. Gaffey grew to
manhood. His early education was acquired in private schools and later
at San Francisco he completed the work of the Lincoln grammar school
and the Boys' high school. After one year in the LTniversity of California
he returned to Santa Cruz in 1879 and there began his newspaper work
as reporter for the Santa Cruz Courier. He was with that journal two
years and then established the Santa Cruz Herald which he conducted
for three years. After selling out he was appointed under sheriff of the
countv. At the close of his term of office he was appointed clerk of
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the Supreme Court of the Southern District, and the duties of that
office brought him to Los Angeles. In 1886 he was elected a member
of the Board of Equalization for the Southern District. After four
years he engaged in mining in Old Mexico, and during his absence was
elected a member of the School Board of Los Angeles. He returned
in time to serve in that position for ten months. In 1892 he was elected
a member of the City Council, filling the office for six months until he
resigned to take charge of Stephen M. White's campaign, and handled it
successfully until Mr. White was chosen a member of the United States
Senate. For eighteen months beginning in 1894 Mr. Gaflfey also served
as managing editor of the Los Angeles Herald.
In 1893 he was appointed Collector of Customs by President Cleve-
land for the Southern District including Riverside, Orange, Ventura
and Los Angeles counties. At the close of his four year term he retired
from politics and gave his eiiforts to his mining interests in Old Mexico
and oil operations in Texas until 1906, when, he disposed of most of his
holdings and has since enjoyed the comforts of his beautiful home at
San Pedro, with only his private affairs to require his supervision. Mr.
Gaffey is president of the Bandini Baker Estate Company, is a director
of the First National Bank, is president of the Gafifey Investment Com-
pany, and is a meniber of the California Club and the Bohemian Club of
San Francisco.
June 1, 1887, he married Arcadia Bandini, daughter of Don Juan
Bandini. They have two children, William T. and Mrs. Captain John
Mell. The son William T., who was born at Santa Monica, was educated
in college at Santa Clara and soon afterward entered the United States
Navy. In 1917 he was commissioned an ensign and was in service until
the close of the war, being now on the reserve list. The daughter was
educated in the Sacred Heart Convent at Menlo Park.
Bert Lytell, one of the youngest and most popular screen celeb-
rities, has a well deserved national fame but is a thorough Californian,
as is also his talented wife.
He was born in New York City February 24, 1885, and may be
said to have been born and grown up in the atmosphere and environ-
ment of the stage. His father, William H. Lytell, was a noted actor and
producer. His mother, Blanche Mortimer, was a leading woman of her
time, and daughter of J. K. Mortimer, one of Augustin Daly's stars.
The early education of Bert Lytell was obtained at Upper Canada
College. He left there at the age of fifteen and has been on the stage
ever since. He went through the rudiments of his training at Fred Be-
lasco's Alcazar Theater in San Francisco. He has the distinction of
having been the youngest stock company manager in the country, man-
aging his own summer stock company in Rochester and Albany, New
York, besides having managed companies in New Orleans, Honolulu, Los
Angeles and Boston. He played on Broadway as leading man to Marie
Dressier in connection with an all-star cast containing Ben Johnson,
Forrest Robinson, George Probert, Holbrook Blain and others. Mr.
Lytell's last appearance on the legitimate stage was when he created the
leading part in "Mary's Ankle."
His first screen production was in "The Lone Wolf." The better
known pictures he has done since then are "The Spender," "Faith," "One
Tiling at a Time," "O'Day," "Lombardi Limited," "The Right of Way,"
and "Alias Jimmy Valentine."
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During the war he was in the Central Infantry Officers Camp at
Waco, Texas, and gave some very effective aid in behalf of two of the
Liberty Loan drives. While not at his studio he rides, fishes, hunts and
his great hobby is farming. He has a twelve hundred sixty acre ranch
in Napa County, but since prohibition has made his vineyard unprofitable
he has decided in the future to confine his farming to a Hollywood gar-
den. He has enjoyed success and has deserved it, and what more than
anything else, not counting native talents, has contributed to his suc-
cess has been hard work and persistency. His whole personality reflects
determination and inflexibility of purpose, all combined with a warm-
hearted, sympathetic manner.
Mr. Lytell is a member of the Lambs Club of New York and is a
thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner. Ten years ago he married
Miss Evelyn Vaughan. She was a leading woman in stock companies
in San Francisco and on Broadway.
Fred Pennington Newport. Vision, initiative, executive abilicv
and tenacity are the attributes that have combined to make the name
of Fred Pennington Newport a synonym of successful real estate develop-
ment from the viewpoint of both buyer and seller. Since 1907 Mr.
Newport, head of the F. P. Newport Company, has achieved distinction
as a pioneer in various extensive undertakings promoted by himself and
associates.
His operations cover both northern and southern California involving
vast acreages of now high priced agricultural lands and properties in-
cluded in the most exclusive and valuable business and residential sections
of Los Angeles. Strong in his faith that Los Angeles was destined to
become the most populous city west of St. Louis, he and his associates
invested millions of dollars in desirable holdings and in their actual
development. In later years, believing that the action and influence of
the Panama Canal on maritime Los Angeles would make this metropolis
the most important conmiercial and industrial center of the Pacific sea-
board, he has been the means of interesting thousands of people in tide-
water frontage and industrial sites at Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor.
Conforming to established precedent, at the present time he is
pioneering in a development unique in the annals of Southern California
realty — that of converting into surpassingly beautiful home sites about
three hundred acres of fertile foothill and valley lands in historic Verdugo
Canyon. In this "Switzerland of California" situated in North Glendale
and within the ten mile circle from the heart of the city, he has platted
spacious villa sites and endowed them with every convenience, the most
notable feature perhaps being the substantially constructed domestic water
system and development of electricity for both cooking and heating pur-
poses. He has built a wide boulevard through the subdivision and already
many handsome homes dot this picturesque gem of the "Mother Moun-
tains."
Mr. Newport is a self made man, and though not yet in his prime
has taken liis position among the influential factors in business and
financial circles of his adopted state. He was born in New Bnmswick,
Canada, son of Burton and Mary (Pennington) Newport, but was reared
on an Illinois farm. He graduated from the Princeton High School of
Illinois, did special work in the University of Minnesota, the North-
western LTniversity at Chicssfo, and Drake University at Des Moines. In
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early life he was principal of schools at Creighton, Nebraska, and also
superintendent of agents of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and as noted above for more than ten years has been sole owner of F. P.
Newport Company.
Mr. Newport is a member of the Athletic Club, Los Angeles Country
Club, Tuna Club, Los Angeles Realty Board, Merchants and Manu-
facturers Association, Chamber of Commerce, National Association of
Real Estate Exchanges. He is a Mason, a republican and a member of
the Congregational Church. April 19, 1901, he married Letty Johnson,
of Meadow Grove, Nebraska.
Henry M. Robinson. At a time when the characters of many
public men in America are undergoing the fierce assaults of destructive
criticism, the figure of Henr}' M. Robinson of Pasadena stands out in
contrasting relief with a proved record of independence of judgment,
administrative skill and knowledge of domestic and international affairs.
A republican, he served as adviser to a democratic president, as well as
commissioner of the United States Shipping Board, and as special ship-
ping commissioner at the Peace Conference. He was a member with
Samuel Gompers of the International Labor Conference, served on the
Council of National Defense and is a banker who, through square deal-
ing, has won the entire confidence of organized labor.
While the results of the Peace Conference have been assailed at
every conceivable point, Mr. Robinson returned from that conference with
the unique record of having gained for the United States every point of
importance for which he contended. For this work he was made Cheva-
lier de la Legion D'Honeur of France and was akso decorated by Albert
of Belgium. He won the contention advanced by the United States that
German and Au.strian shipping interned in American ports at the time
the United States entered the war should go to the United States and
not be pooled for distribution among the Allies on a basis of shipping
loss. This was probably the greatest single victory won by the United
States at the Peace Conference.
At the Brussels Conference, acting as chairman of the subcommittee
on shipping, and associated with Herbert Hoover, he obtained, in return
for food, the assignment to the United States of the largest German
liners, including such well known heavy tonnage ships as the Imperator,
Zeppelin, Prinz, Frederich Wilhelm, Graf Waldersee, Patricia, Cap Fin-
isterre Pretoria, Cleveland and the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. These
ships went to the United States because of America's need for troop
transports, while Great Britain and France obtained ships of smaller ton-
nage for use in cargo trade.
Equally notable was his influence as representative with Samuel
Gompers of the United States at the International Labor Conference.
The result of this conference was to place America on a parity at sea
with the great mass of her competitors, not through the reduction of
American wage standards set up by the LaFollette act, but by forcing the
foreign nations to adopt the American basis. Commenting on this mis-
sion, John Temple Graves, the great southern editor, wrote : "Robinson,
who took Hurley's place for the Lhiited States, was subtle-minded, prac-
tical, patient, courageous in his advocacy of the American- position and
in his exposition of the peculiar difficulties adherent thereto. His was a
far keener mentality than that of Gompers, who was always more ready
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to fight than to understand, more prone to thunder than to construct."
Both abroad and at home Mr. Robinson was an influential figure in
the affairs of the nation during the war. But unhke some others who
did less he worked without thought of self aggrandizement. One of the
men who built up the nation-wide system of the Council of National De-
fense, he was a strong though unheralded factor in Washington. When
the shipyards became demoralized through strikes, he worked day and
night with the President, with Chairman Hurley and with Samuel Gom-
pers in bringing labor whole-heartedly into the war. His broad vision
and progressive tendencies led him to keep in close and sympathetic
contact with labor throughout the country.
In July, 1919, Mr. Robinson was made assistant to the chairman of
the Shipping Board in charge of the preparation of studies relating to
foreign trade, and, following the signing of the armistice he was given
the duty of collecting shipping data necessary for presentation at the
Peace Conference, to which he was called in December.
While abroad he was ofi'ered and declined the Director Generalship
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the place which Schwab held during
the war, and it was not until after he declined this post that he was
made commissioner of the Shipping Board to succeed Commissioner
Page of San Francisco. On returning from Paris he brought the neces-
sary foreign data with which the Shipping Board supplemented the
studies made in the United States covering the future operation of the
American Merchant Marine'.
In December, 1919, and the early months of 1920, Mr. Robinson
served with the President's Second Industrial Conference in Washington
and was chairman of the United States Bituminous Coal Commission in
the settlement of the coal strike. He is a member of the Bankers' Com-
mittee on Ships Securities and a director in the Los Angeles branch of
the Federal Reserve Bank of the Twelfth District. In private life he is
president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and of the Los
Angeles Trust and Savings Bank.
Mr. Robinson is a native of the Western Reserve of Ohio, born at
Ravenna, and was liberally educated, attending the Western Reserve
Academy and later Cornell University. Admitted to the bar in 1890,
his interests for many years were identified with the great industrial City
of Youngstown, Ohio, where he practiced law nine years, and then
moved to New York City where he continued his profession until 1904.
He earned his early prominence as a banker while at Youngstown, serv-
ing as vice-president of the First National Bank and the Dollar Savings
Bank and Trust Company from 1899 to 1904. These are two of the
largest banking institutions in Ohio, and he is still a director in them.
Mr. Robinson came to California in 1906, and among other impor-
tant interests in the Southwest he is a director of the Southern California
Edison Company, the Pacific Lumber Company, the Union Oil Company
and of the Southern Cahfornia Telephone Company. In former years
he was also interested in newspapers in Kansas City and Boston.
\
Miss Mabel Watson. The working hours of Miss Watson are
spent in a picturesque little, studio at 249 East Colorado Street in Pasa-
dena, a studio that is not without distinction and appreciation among the
cultivated tastes of the world as a center of "fine arts" and "art photo-
graphs." She has specialized for several years in pictoral photography,
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and an interesting tribute to her genius was paid when an editorial board
selected some of her work from hundreds of prints submitted by pictorial-
ists from every part of the country for publication in "Pictorial Photog-
raphy in America," published in New York in 1920. This handsome
work represents the best current expression of American pictorial photog-
raphers.
Miss Watson was born in Illinois, but was reared in Indiana, where
her family located when she was very young. Her father, Robert N.
Watson, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born in Ohio. He was a
student, and his life was devoted to scholarly pursuits. For many years
he was a college professor, was deeply interested in the law and at dif-
ferent times gave all the force of his quiet influence in the direction of
clean politics. Never strong physically, he indulged so far as his duties
permitted a simple rustic life, and finally, because of his health, came to
California and died at Pasadena in 1910.
Miss Watson's mother was Sarah Ellen Brewer, a native of Indiana
and also of Scotch-Irish parentage. Her people were all artistically in-
clined. Her uncles were soldiers in the Civil war and her brother was a
skillful wood carver. Miss Watson is one of five children, all daughters,
and two of them are artists.
Mabel Watson was educated at the Nebraska Wesleyan University
in Lincoln, studying art there and also studied in the Art Institute in
Chicago, in New York and abroad. Her early dreams took the form of
an ambition to apply art in some practical way. She took up photography,
and at a time when a new school of photography was elevating the art
from a mechanical process to a profession demanding the most delicate
adjustment of artistic perceptions. She came under the inspiration of
the new movement, and her own work has been a contribution to its
further progress. Her first shop in California was very small, mortgaged
and in debt, but all those obligations have been cleared away, and as the
business grew she had her equipment and studio completely remodeled
and has introduced many artistic chambers. She is now planning a new
studio with large gardens, and all the technical equipment permitting her
to apply her knowledge of art and set new standards for her already
splendid work. Miss Watson each year goes East and keeps in close
touch with the leading exemplars of her profession.
In her art shop at Pasadena she carries the Rookwood Pottery,
having been selected by the Rookwood interests as their exclusive agent.
Her shop has a very attractive frontage and adjoining is a Japanese
garden with bits of artistic fences and other "et cetera" required by her
photography. All her pictures are made on English water color paper,
the most beautiful paper made.
Miss Watson is a member of the Pictorial Photographers of Ameri-
ca, an organization not of mere photographers, but those whose work
designates them as pictorial artists. This organization has for its purpose
the bringing to the attention of museums and art societies all over the
country the value of photography as a means of art expression.
Fred E. Pettit, Jr., began his professional career as an attorney
at law in the summer of 1914. He was born at Peabody, Kansas, Novem-
ber 23, 1888, and attended the grammar and high schools of his native
city. Thereafter he received the A. B. degree from the University of
Kansas, having majored in economics and taken certain additional work
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in engineering. He then took up the study of law, and after one year's
work in the Harvard University Law School and two in Stanford Uni-
versity Law School, graduated from the latter with the J. D. degree.
On October 15, 1914, Mr. Pettit entered the law department of the
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, having previously been
engaged in the private practice of his profession. On June 1, 1917,
he was made general attorney for the State of California for that com-
pany, and just a year later entered the army in a radio detachment and
afterward attended the Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Texas. Upon
his discharge from army service he became attorney for the Southern
California Edison Company and its subsidiaries, but resigned March 15,
1920, to become assistant general counsel and again as general attorney
for California for the Railroad Company whose line is commonly known
as the Salt Lake Route.
Mr. Pettit is unmarried. He is a member of the Masonic Order,
the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities, the University Club
of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Newport Harbor
Yacht Club; and politically he is a republican.
Frederick Rollin Feitshans had achieved a flattering degree of
success in business when he came to Los Angeles, but came here not
to retire but merely to find a new field for his energies. A trained in-
vestigator of oil properties, and at one time an oil operator in the Mid-
Continent field in Kansas, Mr. Feitshans has had little interest in petro-
leum since coming to Southern California, his choice of business having
been made in an entirely different line. By a process of upbuilding and
by consolidation he has made the Los Angeles Desk Company, of which
he is president, the foremost concern of its kind on the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Feitshans was born at Springfield, Illinois, March 4, 1881. His
parents were Frederick Rollin and Mary (Flanders) Feitshans. His
father was a very prominent educator. At Springfield, Illinois, he was
superintendent of the city schools. Mrs. M. F. Feitshans who now,
divides her time between Los Angeles and Boston, Massachusetts, also
has an interesting record in educational affairs. She has the distinction
of being the first woman to serve on any State Board of Education in
the United States.
Frederick Rollin Feitshans, the younger of two children, received
his early education at Springfield, Illinois, also attended school in Kansas
City, Missouri, and the high school at Los Angeles. In 1904 he graduated
with the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kansas.
During his last t\vo years in the University of Kansas he was assistant
to the State Geologist, and spent much of the time traveling over Kansas.
From that experience in economic geology he engaged in the oil industry,
and had a part in opening up several noted fields in that state. He drilled
oil wells, and his judgment as an operator made him a handsome fortune.
While in Kansas University he became a member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity and for many years was president and is now vice-president
of the Los Angeles Branch of the Alumni Association. He also did
much in athletics while in the university and in his home has many
trophies of his prowess as a tennis player. He held the tennis champion-
ship and during his last year at university held the intercollegiate middle
west championship, both singles and doubles. In 1919 Mr. Feitshans was
appointed alumni lecturer for the year by the University of Kansas. The
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series of three lectures he is to deliver at the university are entitled
"Development of South American Trade," "Metal Mining in Alaska," and
"Fuel as a Factor in the Industrial Development of Pacific Coast States."
On leaving Kansas and coming to Los Angeles Mr. Feitshans estab-
lished what is today the Los Angeles Desk Company. It was first known
as the Los Angeles Desk Exchange located at 208 North Broadway, was
later moved to 105 North Broadway and then to 117-119 South Broad-
way. Mr. Feitshans took over the Bronson-Carlisle Desk Company at
729 South Spring Street and in the meantime had taken over the office
furniture departments of several furniture houses of Los .A^ngeles includ-
ing the California Furniture Company, the Pease Brothers Furniture
Company. All these new additions to his enterprise were eventually
consolidated under the name Los Angeles Desk Company, and that
busine.'^s was incorporated in 1908. Since 1910 it has occupied a building
of its own at 848-850 South Hill Street. In 1910 Mr. Feitshans bought
out the Pockels-Bishop Desk Company.
He is president of the corporation and majority stock holder, owns
the ground and building on which his business is located and is now
adding three more stories so as to convert it into a seven story building,
all of which will make an adequate and commodious home for the Desk
Company. The business .includes the handling of all classes of high
grade office furniture both wholesale and retail. He also manufactures
goods in his line. For several years Mr. Feitshans has been contributing
to general publicity work on Los Angeles by issuing a series of "Facts
About Los Angeles and Southern California," distributed thousands of
copies and containing much information of value to prospective business
interests.
Mr. Feitshans is a director of the Continental National Bank of
Los Angeles, one of the largest banking institutions in Southern Cali-
fornia. He is a former president of the Los Angeles Sales Managers
.\ssociation, and has lieen vice-president of the International Sales Man-
agers Association and director and officer in various other business and
civic organizations. He is a member of the LTniversity Club and is sec-
retary and treasurer of the Board of Control of the Inter Club Associa-
tion of Los Angeles. He also belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic
Club, Automobile Club of Southern California, Chamber of Commerce,
being on its membership committee and representative of the Chamber
of the United States Chamber of Commerce Session at St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1919, is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers
.\ssociation, the Chamber of Mines, is president of the Kiwanis Club,
member of the Lions Club and in politics is a republican. During the
war he served as a member of the Home Guard Company. He was also
chairman of the Red Cross for the business district of Los Angeles and
was captain in every Liberty Bond campaign in Los Angeles. He also
organized the Hill Street Improvement Association of which D. A.
Hamburger is president with Mr. Feitshans vice-president. This asso-
ciation is succeeding in extending Hill Street south through the Ball
Park to Santa Barbara Avenue and north from Temple Street to Sunset
Boulevard. As a result the street will be four and a half miles in length
and ninety-two feet wide, and will be one of the longest downtown boule-
vards in the city.
Mr. Feitshans has never ceased to be a lover of outdoor sports and
pastimes. Hunting is one of his favorite diversions. He has hunted
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big game in Alaska and as head of an exploration party visited Alaska,
and one of the large glaciers on the Snow River he named the Celia
Glacier in honor of his wife.
On September 8, 1906, Mr. Feitshans married Miss Celia Traber
of Kansas City, Missouri. Though the last subject to be mentioned,
his family is in fact first and last with Mr. Feitshans. His wife was
born and educated in Kansas City, being a graduate of the Kansas City
High School. Her father, the late Judge Traber, was a prominent
pioneer of Kansas City. Mrs. Feitshans is a talented vocalist. Recently
Mr. Feitshans bought ground in the West Adams Street district, and is
planning a modern home there. He and his wife have seven children,
all native sons and daughters born at Los Angeles, their names being
Mary Elizabeth, Frederick R., Jr., Traber L., Beatrice, James Douglas,
Victor and Sylvia.
Edwin Tobi.-\s E.\rl. never held a "job," never received a "position"
with more or less lucrative remuneration, was never an employe. These
negative facts are not stated as matters of curious interest ; they probably
furnish a significant interpretation of a significant career. More or less
consciously even from boyhood he was doubtless actuated by a sense of
commitment to "a work" as a fulfillment of Ufe and life's aims. His joy
was in the journey, not the journey's end. And the impulse to work came
from within ; economic necessity exercised no compulsion over him.
Having revolutionized the fruit industry of California, he had the
generous rewards of the inventor and great business executive. The
spirit of democracy is labor and service, and he remained as essentially
democratic when a millionaire as when an obscure fruit shipper. He was
a capitalist, but not of the capitalistic caste. His character never became
rigid, his human sympathies broadening and deepening with the years.
At a time when the political and social convictions of most men became
fixed, he was not only receptive to but became a warm exponent of the
progressive movement in the republican party, and to him much credit
is due for the fact that California today retains more of the vitality of
progressive principles than any other section of i.he nation.
There is no space here for an extended review of a career which
may be recommended for a thorough study by an economic and philo-
sophic historian. The fact remains beyond dispute that Edwin T. Earl
was one of the greatest Californians of his generation. It is significant
that while his work became a public achievement, of his own personal
career he seldom permitted himself or others to speak. All this article
can hope to do is to sketch a few facts of his personal history, and make
brief reference to the several successive tasks to which his energies and
genius of mind and heart were devoted.
Edwin Tobias Earl was born on a farm near Red Blufl: in the
Sacramento Valley of California in 1858, and died January 2, 1919. His
parents, Josiah and Adelia T. Earl, were pioneers of the state and his
father a fruit farmer. They moved from Red BluiT to Oakland, where
Edwin Earl received a high school education until he was eighteen years
old. He left school to become associated with his father in the fruit
shipping business. At that time California fruits were hardly known
in the east. Strange as it may seem to the modern generation, the eastern
markets were supplied with oranges grown either in Florida or on the
shores of the -Mediterranean Sea. To ship California fruits across
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the continent was deemed impracticable, and what fiaiit was shipped was
sent principally in passenger coaches at an almost prohibitive price, and
with excessive losses due to lack of provision in transit against extremes
of heat and cold. In 1876, when eighteen jears old, Edwin T. Earl
crossed the continent on a freight train with two cars loaded with grapes,
the train being sixteen days en route. These cars were a type of re-
frigerator car then in use. While this pioneer shipment demonstrated the
feasibility of transporting the fruit two thousand miles and getting it
to market in satisfactory condition, there were many other problems to
be solved. Ome of the first was to overcome the reluctance of the trans-
portation companies to handle this class of freight. For neariy ten
years the railroad companies showed no inclination to encourage long dis-
tance fruit traffic, and in fact frequent obstacles were placed in the way of
Mr. Earl. Up to 1886, as head of the Earl Fruit Company, he had con-
fined his efforts largely to marketing the deciduous of Central California.
In 1886 he turned his attention to the citrus fruits of Southern Cali-
fornia. The ventilated fruit car furnished by the railroads would not
protect the fruit from freezing, and the only other cars available were
ordinary refrigerator cars, which, to a certain extent, would protect the
fruits from freezing but at the western end of the journey oranges re-
quired ventilation and ordinary refrigerator cars would not provide it. The
methods of packing California oranges in 1886 were crude. It was neces-
sary to introduce new methods of picking, packing, loading and selling Cal-
ifornia oranges, and he also had the transportation to contend with. These
difficulties occupied a large portion of his attention for several years, and
in 1890 he invented the first successful combination ventilator-refrigerator
car used in transportation of California fruits. Since that time the "Earl
Fruit Car" has been accepted and adopted as the vehicle of perfection
for transporting perishable fruits long distances. In the meantime the
Earl Fruit Company had become the largest fruit packing and shipping
concern in California. It was Mr. Earl's intention to provide his ventilator-
refrigerator car merely for the Earl Fruit Company. The demand, how-
ever, for the car was so great that he developed its manufacture and
ownership as a distinctive business, known as the Continental Fruit
Express, the cars of which for years have been operated on every rail-
road that handles fruit shipments and have been used for the transporta-
tion of Florida oranges and other southern fruits as well as California
products. In the course of time this company was operating about two
thousand ventilator-refrigerator cars, representing an investment of two
million dollars. In 1900 Mr. Earl sold this industry to Armour & Com-
pany, and with that deal brought to a conclusion the long commercial
fight which he had waged with the big packers.
This was the first phase of his strenuous life, comprising a period
of over twenty-five years. It brought him a fortune, but of much more
importance both to himself and the world was the constructive service
rendered. While he would have been fully justified in devoting his sub-
sequent years to the enjoyment of a well earned leisure, Mr. Earl still
felt that he had work to do. In 1901 he bought the Los Angeles Express.
and until the day of his death was, as his colleagues attest, not only its
owner, but in every real sense its editor. The members of the editorial
staff of the Express who had longest been associated and had most to do
with expressing the views of Mr. Earl said : "It was for him something
more than a piece of property ; it was the living instrument through
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which good might be accomplished, of value to him only as it served
the common welfare. He held himself to be charged with a moral trust
in respect of its policies, answerable in conscience for the fidelity where-
with that trust was maintained. In consequence he was intensely active
in his direction of the conduct of the "Express," giving to both the
business and editorial management of the paper an attention that reached
to the smallest detail as searchingly as to the most important subject."
Liberal minded men through California know how fully the "Ex-
press" under Mr. Earl's ownership and management realized their own
ideals of what a great newspaper should be and should stand for. As
an editor Mr. Earl advocated warmly and with great strength many
policies and movements during the last eighteen years, but he came as
near to escaping the faults of partisanship as it is possible for mortal
judgment to do. As a wealthy man who had won his wealth cleanly
and legitimately he was free to be a real independent and fight unrelent-
ingly in behalf of progress and decency in city, state and national life,
and it is only due to say that the Express both in its literary tone and
policies exemplified some of the best ideals of American journalism.
Mr. Earl was long interested in politics for the sake of good gov-
ernment. A republican, he recognized the critical issues that confronted
that party in the year 1912, and was one of the first prominent republi-
cans in California to advocate the formation of a new progressive party
to express the real will of the people and the common instrument of
ofiiciencv in carrying out that will. Mr. Earl was one of the advisors
of Governor Stephens and was credited with having had the chief
influence upon Governor Johnson when the latter selected Mr. Stephens
to succeed him upon his resignation as governor to take his seat in the
Senate.
Edwin T. Ear! married Miss Emily Jarvis, of a prominent Kentucky
family. Mrs. Earl survives him, with four children : Jarvis, Emily
and Edwin, twins, and Chaffey.
Charles W'inthrop Fish, M. D. A jjhysician and surgeon at Los
Angeles for a quarter of a century, the late Dr. Fish was one of the
founders of the Pacific Hospital and among his professional associates
and the large clientage he served was regarded as one of the foremost
gynecologists in Southern California.
Dr. Fish, who died in November, 1919, gained distinction not only
for his technical skill, but for the constant expression of a beautiful and
kindly character. He was fifty-nine years of age at the time of his
death. The family home where he was born, July 23, 1860, was known
as The Hermitage, near Sharon. Pennsylvania. His father was Ezra
Fish. Dr. Fish acquired his early education in Western Pennsylvania,
graduated with the Master of .\rts degree from Allegheny College in
1882, and subsequently finished his ])reparation for the medical profession
in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He began practice at
Meadville, Pennsylvania, and followed that with an extended course in
Vienna and other European centers. On coming to Los .Angeles in
1894, he continued to work as a general practitioner, but later specialized
in gynecology.
Dr. Fish was a member of all the County and State Medical So-
cieties, and at the time of his death was vice president of the Board of
the Pacific Hospital. He was a republican in politics, a member of the
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college fraternity Delta Tau Delta, was a Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner and a member of the Jonathan, University and Los Angeles
Country Clubs. At the time of his death he was a member of West
Adams Presbyterian Church.
The love and esteem paid him were the result of a rich composite
of personal traits and characteristics. He possessed! keen sense of
humor, a quaint kindliness and both in and out of his profession radiated
constant influence for good and a wise and considerate charity.
Dr. Fish married in 1894 Miss Catherine Goodfellow of Oakland,
sister of Dr. George Goodfellow. Her people were California forty-
niners, her father coming with his family across the plains, while the
mother's family came by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Mrs.. Fish
died in 1912. In 1915 Dr. Fish riiarried Mrs. Edith Goodfellow Harvey,
who survived him. He also left two sons by his first marriage, Farnum
Thayer and George \\'inthrop P^ish, the latter now studying medicine in
New York City.
OsTEOP.XTHV IN CALIFORNIA. The general recognition now paid
osteopathy as a science and with the broadening scope of its practice it
is appropriate that .something should be said of the history of osteopathy
in California. Many people in California would hardly recognize osteo-
pathy as a new school of medicine, since it has had a following in this
state for over twenty years.
The first organized effort to establish a college was made in May,
1896, at Anaheim. This resulted in the incorporation of the Pacific
Sanitorium and School of Olsteopathy, the headquarters being established
in the Del Campo Hotel Building at Anaheim.
This institution was the second of its kind in the world antedated
only by the parents school at Kirksville Missouri. A publication was
issued in July of the same year entitled "The Osteopath," which served
as official organ of the college. The school was later reorganized and
transferred to Los Angeles, where quarters were secured in the Phillips
P>lock. Spring and Franklin streets, in May, 1897.
The new therapeutic arrival rapidly gained public notice and approval
in the community. Evidence of this is found in the necessity for en-
larged quarters. June 6, 1898, there was established the Pacific School
of Osteopathy and Infirmary at Tenth and Flower streets.
With the wide divergence of views and practices then extant in the
several established schools of medicine there developed an organized
opposition to the osteopath practitioner by these various factions. The
profession endeavored to meet this situation by appropriate legislation.
A bill was drafted and introduced in the State Legislature February 3.
1899. The bill was promptly buried in committees. On June 6th of
the same year the first state association was organized, with Dr. A. H.
Potter president.
The changing complexion of medical thought throughout the world
at this period wrought considerable modification in the curricula of all
medical teaching in.stitutions. Discoveries in the allied basic sciences
added much to the knowledge of the therapeutic world. The osteopathic
college was quick to seize upon and incorporate these newer discoveries
in its curriculum, resulting in a marked accretion to the esablished course
of studies. During this period the profession within the state was
efficiently organized in support of legislation and the upholding of edu-
cational standards. The fruit of this endeavor was the passage of a
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law in 1901, giving legal recognition to the science, and providing for a
state osteopathic examining board, of which Dr. Dain L. Tasker was
appointed president. December 3, 1901, was organized the first county
association of the Los Angeles County Olsteopathic Society.
In 1904 came another period of expansion and reorganization of the
teaching institution, resulting in the Pacific College of Osteopathy, estab-
lished in its own building at Mission Road and Daly Street. The fol-
lowing year saw the advent of the second osteopathic college on the
Pacific Coast, the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, with Dr. Harry
W. Forbes president.
The first number of the "Western Osteopath"' was published in
San Francisco May 1, 1907, Dr. W. W. Vanderburgh as editor. This
gave the profession an official organ for the further upl^uilding of its
forces. At this time a situation was developed requiring further legis-
lative effort as a result of a court decision in 1906, declaring the Osteo-
pathic Law unconstitutional. The outgrowth of this was the passage
of a law establishing a composite state board of medical examiners,
which was put in effect ]\Iay 2, 1907.
The first national osteopathic convention to be held on the Pacific
Coast was conducted in San Francisco August 2, 1910, with the Bay
Osteopathic Association acting as host.
The ever broadening aspect of the medical and allied sciences made
necessary a further change in the state medical law. The act of 1913
established a minimum four year course for all recognized medical teach-
ing institutions within the state, and which aimed to do away with the
differentiation between the several separate schools of practice.
In 1914 came a further change in the educational development of the
science as the result of a consolidation of the two colleges. This amalgama-
tion brought into being the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Sur-
geons, with a central location in Los Angeles, and an augmented staff —
thus adding materially to the efficiency of osteopathic educational facilities
within the state. Another item of progress was recorded in the estab-
lishment in 1916 of attendance at clinics and the opening of internships
in the Los Angeles County Hospital to osteopathic students.
Thomas O. Toland is a member of the prominent Los Angeles
law firm of Andrews, Toland, Gregg & Andrews. His professional
record in California is a long and enviable one and has made him widely
known over the state. He is one of the oldest students of the Hastings
College of Law and has been a member of the California bar over
thirty years.
Mr. Toland was born at Bluff' Springs, Clay county, Alabama, Sep-
tember 13, 1856, a son of James and Mildred Ann (Street) Toland.
He grew up in Alabama, acquiring his early education in the common
schools and at the IMunford Academy, Andrew McDonald, president.
In January, 1874, he entered the University of Virginia, remaining
one term, and in the fall of the same year entered the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Auburn in his native state.
Coming to California in January, 1875, he immediately entered the
University of California at Berkeley. He was prominent in student
activities, being editor of the "Besom," a University paper, in 1876,
and in 1877-78 was editor-in-chief of the "Berkeleyan," which he changed
from a college paper to a college magazine. He graduated from the
Literary Department of the University with the class of 1878, receiving
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the degree Bachelor of Arts. This was followed with the law course
of Hastings College at Law and admission afterward to the California
bar by the Supreme Court at Los Angeles. He has also practiced
before the United States Courts, and was admitted to the Supreme
Court of the United States December 15, 1910.
Between these dates he had a long and varied experience not only as
a lawyer but as a teacher and worker. After leaving the University
of California he was employed in the grocery business by R. G. Huston
at Berkeley, and was a law clerk and student in the office of George
D. Shadburne in San Francisco in 1878. In 1880 he taught mathematics
in Brewer's Military Academy at San Mateo, was in charge of San
Anselmo grammar school in Marin county in 1880-81, and worked in
law offices, and studied law during 1881-82, following which he again
taught school from 1882 to 1886 at Hueneme and Santa Paula in Ventura
county. He opened his first law office and also engaged in real estate
at Santa Paula as a member of the realty firm of Guiberson & Toland
in 1886. The same year the realty fimi became Toland & Baker, and
so continued until May, 1890, when he removed to San Buena Ven-
tura, the county seat, to engage in law practice alone. He acquired the
library, office and station of Hon. Lemuel C. McKeeby, who had removed
to Los Angeles.
From 1893 to 1895 Mr. Toland was district attorney of Ventura
county ; was city attorney of San Buena Ventura in 1896-98 ; represented
the Sixty-fifth District in the State Assembly in 1897-99; and from 1899
to 1903 was a member of the State Board of Equalization from tne
Fourth Equalization District. He did some notable work while serving
on this board. In 1896 he supported George S. P'atton against L. J.
Rose, Sr., in the celebrated contest for the democratic nomination for
Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, which then included
Los Angeles and the counties south. During the period 1884 to 1896
Mr. Toland was a member of the Board of Education of Ventura
county. In 1906 he was the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor
of California, and took the highest popular vote given a democratic
candidate for that office in twenty-five years.
In March, 1910, he removed to Los Angeles to become associated
with Lewis W. Andrews in the practice of the law. That association
has developed into the present firm of Andrews, Toland, Gregg &
Andrews, and the firm has been in charge of the legal department of
the Union Oil Company of California since 1910.
Mr. Toland is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including
AI Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Odd Fellow,
having been a member of Santa Paula Lodge No. 314 since 1884.
He is a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Cali-
fornia; in politics is a democrat, and is a member of the Los Angeles
County and the California State Bar associations, and of the Los
Angeles Athletic Club.
August 16, 1900, he married Miss Carrie Anna Fleisher, of Santa
Paula, California. She is a graduate of the State Normal School of
Los Angeles and a member of the Eastern Star and the Ebell Club.
John G. Bullock. Travelers the world over find men and women
who have heard and remembered the name — "Bullock's, Los Angeles."
It is associated with achievement, not alone in the matter of "Merchandise
of Character," but also in that it is an organization which is in the van-
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guard of modern business. The story of Bullock's is the story of the
character and idealism of a man who knows his fellow men — John G.
Bullock.
When the snow was on the ground, man-deep ; when the cold and
bitter winds whipped across the plains, John G. Bullock was born. The
day was January 14, the year 1871, and the place Paris, Ontario, Canada.
Something of the hardiness of the North was in his blood, and something
also of its clean, irresistible force and integrity.
His father belonged to that type of the pioneer English, at once
constructive and daring. His mother was of sturdy Scotch, rich in
faith, strong in the love of her husband and her family. They have
their place among the deep, shrewd, practical men and women who are
the backbone of humanity. John G. Bullock was like his parents in that,
but he had in addition a certain faculty which was to take him high and
far in the world. "A Practical Idealist" he has been called, and it is
most certainly true that he has created an organization which very nearly
approaches the ideal.
Tliere is a kind of genius that expresses itself in the ability to set
men free. Such genius is rare. Indeed, when one comes to think of it,
it is a question whether or not all genius has, as one of its attributes, the
capacity to set others free, whether it be through music, through painting,
or through that which is among the most exacting and ethical of the
arts — modern business. Human beings are hemmed about with various
kinds of restraining influences, most of them being their own fears. To
this type of human being, whether man or woman, the business genius
holds open the right door, and the timid one finds himself — finds that
place in his consciousness where the creative instinct lies; he finds his
courage, his initiative and the depths and heights of his own abilities
which immediately begin to grow and expand like a plant in good soil.
Therein lies J\lr. Bullock's genius. He knows how to take advantage of
the love of the human soul for freedom. It is rare knowledge indeed,
the newest and the most powerful of the truths that are slowly dawning
upon the minds of American masters of finance.
Perhaps it was because his father died when Mr. Bullock was but
two years of age that he set out to become independent when he was
only eleven. Among other bits of work he secured was that of driving
a delivery wagon. At -fourteen he had settled down to regular work,
.still as a clerk and driver for the neighborhood grocer. For a few
months he tried operating an electric light plant, and for six months he
was in the pattern shop of an iron foundry, but mostly he stuck to his
grocer}' wagon, and it is quite possible that he was drawn to that work
because it offered an opportunity for contact with human nature and
the chance to be out-of-doors.
But all this time his ambition prodded — and California called.
California seemed to his youthful imagination a place where a man might
realize his dreams, and so in 1896 he bade his mother farewell and came
to the Golden State. We next find him as a salesman in a Los Angeles
store ; in another three months as its buyer and manager, and in 1899
its superintendent, during which year he was married.
He organized Bullock's of Los Angeles, opening its doors on Alarch
4, 1907, with 450 employees. Since then his life has been that of a
successful man. He is now president of the board of trustees of the
Westlake Presbyterian Church, a trustee of Occidental College, a director
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of the Young Men's Christian Association, a member of the Merchant's
and Manufacturer's Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the Athletic
Club. He is a republican.
His city home is at 627 South Ardmore Avenue, but he has com-
pleted a circle in that home in the country where he lives now, whenever
possible, his country place, "Brae Side," at La Canyada. He has also
a large ranch at Etiwanda which comprises 1500 acres, much of it
devoted to fruit — grapes, melons and oranges. His grapes are a very
special source of pride, being among the finest shipped to eastern markets.
His ranch, like the big store which bears his name, reflects his great,
kindly presiding spirit in its orderly efficiency and scientific manage-
ment.
His mother has always exercised a most profound influence upon
the life of Mr. Bullock. Indeed, she has lived again in him — realized her
ambitions through him and centered her affections on him. He has
responded with a devotion so powerful that it has colored the conduct of
his entire life. It has been said that he has never failed to write to her
once each week — a statement which carries its own full meaning.
Always devoted to his family, his home life is one of real happiness.
His wife is to him truly an inspiration and an ideal. A gracious and
charming woman, she shares with him and their children an intense
love for their home. There are four children : Edwin, a graduate of
Pawling Preparatory School and now at Williams College ; Margaret, a
graduate of the Westlake School for Girls, later a student at Occidental,
and now at Pine Manor, Wellesley. Massachusetts ; Ruth and Helen,
both in the Westlake School for Girls.
Through his rare knowledge of character, as well as through his
keen business instincts, Mr. Bullock has created an elastic organization
in his store capable of endless expansion. The spirit of reaching upward
— the tendency toward having an ideal and striving to achieve it is
found, not alone in the merchandise but amongst Bullock workers. Con-
sciously or unconsciously, they are imbued with a desire to serve — to serve
those who are customers and to serve each other. Service and courtesy
and helpfulness — high words, indeed, if men truly live up to them as
Bullock workers do. In some strange occult fashion those who work
for a man interpret his character to the world. The man behind Bullock's
must be one of great excellence of character to impart so fine a spirit
of wide and generous tolerance — of loving kindness and invincible in-
tegrity to the administration of the store which bears his name.
Robert B. Mor.\n, who established his professional offices in Los
Angeles in 1916, is widely known as an expert geologist and mining
engineer, and has had a wide scope of experience and association in
some of the leading industrial corporations on the Pacific Coast.
He was born in Madison County, Kentucky, December 31, 1879.
When he was six years of age his parents, Mr. and Airs. Hugh Moran,
came from Kentucky to San Luis Obispo, California, and there he re-
ceived his first advantages in the public schools. Later he attended high
school at Berkeley and Oakland, and at the age of eighteen went abroad
and spent a year in Europe. On returning to California he entered
Leland Stanford University and graduated, having specialized in geology
and mining engineering. Mr. Moran was connected with the Southern
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Pacific Railway Company at San Francisco as geologist until 1908. He
then became associate geologist to the Associated Oil Company, and in
their service traveled all over the United States making investigations
and reports. After a year, having returned to San Francisco, he became
geologist for the Standard Oil Company of California, but since 1911
has been engaged in an independent practice as a geologist and mining
engineer. During 1915-16 he served as deputy of the Southern District
of the Department of Petroleum and Gas of the State Mining Bureau.
Among other large interests which he represents in a professional capacity
he is geologist for the Riverside Portland Cement Company of Riverdale.
Mr. Moran is a democrat, a member of the Presbyterian Church and
belongs to the University Clubs of Los Angeles and San Francisco. At
Berkeley, California, in 1911, he married Miss Edna Venable, and they
have three children.
Henry James Angei.l was graduated in law in 1906 and at once
came from his native New England to ■ Los Angeles, where he has
achieved a successful position in the bar.
Mr. Angell represents some of the oldest families in New England.
He is a direct descendant of Thomas Angell, who was the only com-
panion of Roger Williams when the latter left the Massachusetts Bay
Colony and sought a new home in Providence and Rhode Island Planta-
tions, of which community he is historically the founder. The Williams
and Angell families were intermarried and Mr. Angell therefore has
kinship with the descendants of Roger Williams.
Mr. Angell was born in Washington County, Rhode Island, January
15, 1879, son of James Phetteplace and Lillian (Geer) Angell. His
parents were cultured and substantial people and their son was accorded
every educational opportunity consistent with the high standards of New
England. He attended the grammar and high schools of Hartford, Con-
necticut, and his native Province, spent a year in the Bryant & Stratton
Business College at Providence, and his college training was given him
without formal enrollment in any institution under private tutors who
were university professors. He spent five years under such instruction
and on June 5, 1906, graduated from the law school of Northeastern
College at Boston. Mr. Angell at once came to Los Angeles and is
handling his extensive law practice with offices in the Security Building.
He is a Mason and Knight of Pythias, a republican and a member
of the Baptist Church. At Hartford, Connecticut, June 2, 1906, he
married Priscilla Hammond. They have two children: Henry Ham-
mond, born February 15, 1917, and an infant.
FoREM.'\N & Clark. While this is a firm title known to thousands
of men patrons of clothing establishments in four or five of the larger
cities of the country, the business was primarily a Los Angeles concern,
established about ten years ago, with insignificant capital, but with some
novel and efficient ideas of particular service in the retail clothing business.
In 1909 Winfield Amos Foreman and A. J. Clark were in Los
Angeles and had between them cash assets of three hundred and ten
dollars. Both of them knew something of the retail clothing business.
Practically every men's clothing store in the city at that time was con-
ducted on a "ground floor" plan. Foreman & Clark decided they could
get business in spite of the handicap of an upstairs room. The first place
they rented was a space 20x40 feet, upstairs at Third and Main. A friend
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who knew these young men at the time says: "They went out after
business with suits on their arms." From the first they emphasized the
economy of shopping upstairs, and "saving ten dollars," a slogan that
has been a prominent feature of the business ever since and in all their
stores. The idea was distinctive and appealed to the thrifty business
man. Soon the young merchants were knocking out partitions and in-
troducing new stock until they had many times the space of their original
store.
The great expansion of the business has come within the past five
or six years. They first added to their los Angeles business by opening
a store at San Diego in 1913, another at Oakland in 1914, a second store
at Los Angeles, now occupying the site at Fifth and Broadway, and in
1915 a store at San Francisco. In the latter year they also established
a factory in New York City for the manufacture of some of their
garments.
In 1916 Mr. Clark retired from the firm, and since then the business
has been owned and controlled by Loren Owen Foreman and Winfield
Amos Foreman, though they still retain the old name of Foreman &
Clark. Immediately after Mr. Clark's retirement they invaded the highly
competitive field of Chicago, opening a store at teh old Hub corner
at State and Jackson, and by continued emphasis and advertising of
their principle of economic merchandising had a steady trade flowing
their way. In 1917 they opened a store in Pittsburgh, at the corner
of Fifth and Liberty. In 1919 a new manufacturing plant was estab-
lished at Newark, New Jersey, and another at Watervliet, New York.
The last addition to their stores was made in 1920 at 12th and Walnut
streets in Kansas City.
The combined capacity of their three factories is three thousand suits
per week, but this falls far short of being enough to supply their trade,
and they purchase thousands of additional garments every year. Their
total sales for 1919 aggregated more than two hundred thousand gar-
ments. All the stores of Foreman & Clark are upstairs. The popularity
of their establishment in Los Angeles is indicated by the fact that the
firm has resorted to no newspaper advertising for more than four years.
The active head of the business at Chicago is Winfield Amos Fore-
man. He married Miss Rose Leonard, of Los Angeles, a daughter of
J. F. Leonard.
The Los Angeles member of the firm at present is Loren Owen
Foreman. He was born in Jasper County, Iowa, November 23, 1879, son
of Thomas Clark and Letitia (Wyatt) Foreman. His father was a
harness maker at Colfax, Iowa, but after 1893 retired. The mother is
living at DesMoines, Iowa. Besides the two brothers who are partners
in the Foreman & Clark firm, there is another younger brother, Walter
Ray Foreman, who is an independent clothing merchant, proprietor of
what is known as the Foreman Clothing Company of Minneapolis.
Mr. L. O. Foreman, who engaged in the clothing business in 1910,
some six years before the retirement of Mr. Clark, acquired a grammar
school education in Colfax, Iowa, attended high school at DesMoines and
for about fourteen years was engaged in the furniture business. He
came to Los Angeles at the age of thirty. He married Claudine Moberly,
of Newton, Iowa, and they have an interesting young son of ten years,
Byron Williard Foreman. Mr. Foreman is a member of the Los
Angeles Athletic Club and is affiliated with the Elks Order.
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Jonathan Temple, who was better known to native Californians as
Don Juan Temple, was as keen a Yankee as ever shipped over western
waters. He knew how to make money and keep it, and was a picturesque
if not a magnificent figure in the early life and history of Southern
California.
He was born at Reading in Middlesex County, Alassachusetts. His
father, Jonathan Temple, Sr., was born September 25, 1768. Jonathan
Temple was of a roaming disposition, and as a young man we find
him in the Sandwich Islands in 1825, owning his own vessel and trading
with the natives. As early as 1827 he had established himself as a
merchant in Los Angeles, where his business career commenced. He
established himself in business in an adobe building at the intersection
of Spring and Main streets. As business prospered he built with an
eye to business rental property just south of his store, and this he
rented to doctors, lawyers, merchants and others. This building still
stands in August, 1918, and is known to all Californians as the Don
Juan Temple Block. After Mr. Jonathan Temple's death this property
was sold to his brother F. P. F. Temple for ten thousand dollars. The
old adobe building was then torn down and what is known as the Temple
Block was erected, in which the Temple and Workman Bank was
opened.
In the middle fifties Mr. Temple built what was known as the City
Market, standing where the Bullard Block is now located. It was
fashioned after Faneuil Hall in Boston, the lower story being adapted
as a ujarket, while the upper story was used for judicial offices. Here
Don Ignacio Sepulveda, one of the old California judges, held court for
quite a number of years, as well as Hon. Volney E. Howard. Mr. Temple
also owned the lot where the Postoffice and Federal Building now stand.
He was not satisfied with inside property and began to reach out.
He bought Don Pedro Dominguez' interest in the famous Dominguez
Ranch, comprising thirty thousand acres. This is now the property of
the Jotham Bixby heirs, and the city of Long Beach is built on the
property. This place Mr. Temple originally stocked up with immense
herds of cattle. As a basis for his grazing industry he had practically
all the lands from Los Angeles to the ocean, for a distance ot twenty
miles, and an equal distance from east to west. He and his brother
Pliny Temple, who was equally as rich as his brother, combined their
interests and sent immense herds of cattle to the mines in the northern
part of the state, reaping immense fortunes. The master stroke of
Jonathan Temple was in leasing the mint in Mexico, realizing an immense
fortune from that venture. He refused a million dollars for his con-
cession. He lived to see the day when he coined his own money,
controlled seven hundred miles of the western coast of Mexico and had
his boats running with his goods from Acapulco to San Francisco.
Without entering into greater details, Jonathan Temple was the richest
and heaviest taxpayer in Los .\ngeles. In business he did not mince
his words, while his brother Pliny on the other hand could not say no,
and that was the undoing of the latter's vast possessions. The Temple
brothers were exceedingly fond of their eastern relatives, and they were
as a father to them all, particularly to their sisters, whom they adored.
The member of the family who furnished this information knew two
sisters and a brother, and the memories of their brother Pliny leaving
Boston often was related to him. Jonathan Temple would visit his
eastern relatives quite frequently, stay with them a month or so and
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return to the coast with a large supply of the merchandise and com-
modities he needed. His brother Pliny went back to Boston only once
to visit his people, and that was June 20, 1870, after an absence of
thirty years. He found only three, two sisters and a brother, out of
a family of eleven, of whom he was the youngest. Jonathan and Pliny
Temple were the last surviving children. The only surviving heirs of
the original New England Temples are the Temples of California,
including John, Walter, Charles, Lucinda and Margarita. Lucinda mar-
ried Mr. M. M. Zuniga, and both are still living. Margarita is the
widow of Mr. Samuel P. Rowland.
Jonathan Temple married September 17, 1830, Dona Rafaela Cota,
of Santa Barbara. To this union there was born one child. Miss
Francisca Temple. She married Don Gregorio de Ajuria, a native of
Spain. They were married about August, 1848. To this union were
born nine children, seven boys and two girls.
Jonathan Temple visited Paris March 20, 1858, with his wife
and with Don Gregorio and his family. Mrs. Temple was so well
pleased with Paris that she eventually went there to pass her remaining
days. Mr. Temple died in San Francisco, May 31, 1866, and is buried
there. Mrs. Temple and her daughter Francisca both died in Paris, and
are buried there. Don Gregorio de Ajuria and his children are all
now deceased but one, Antonio.
Francis Pliny Fisk Templ.e. There is a rather persistent opinion
among people otherwise well informed that Los Angeles was not discov-
ered until the gold which made the name California potent throughout
the civilized world. It will be a surprise to these people that men other
than Indians and Spanish padres were living and working out their some-
what isolated though not unimportant destiny in this section of Southern
California long before the American conquest.
Perhaps the career of none of these old timers will serve better to
translate some of the features of early California days to the modern
generation than that of Francis Pliny Fisk Temple, a notable and pic-
turesque figure among the pioneers of Los Angeles, and several of whose
sons ai^ still active in affairs and well known in Southern California.
Francis Pliny Fisk Temple was born at Reading, Middlesex county,
Massachusetts, February 12, 1822. He represented one of the oldest
and most highly respected New England families. As a young man he
attended the public schools of his native town until he was about seven-
teen years of age, and then took a two years' mercantile course in Boston.
Reading was a quiet town and offered little opportunity to an ambitious
young man. He therefore determined to follow the example of an older
brother and come to California. He embarked on a vessel at Boston
January 18, 1841, and after a long voyage around the Horn arrived at
Los Angeles in the summer of the same year. When he arrived here he
was a boy of nineteen. Jonathan Temple, his older brother, with the en-
ergy characteristic of the family had identified himself with Southern
California as a pioneer merchant in 1827, and in the meantime had be-
come the leading merchant of Los Angeles. The younger brother joined
him in business and lived with Jonathan until his marriage on September
30, 1845. Francis Temple married Senorita Antonia Margarita Work-
man, only daughter of William Workman, Esquire.
After his marriage he remained with his father-in-law at the Puente
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Rancho for some three years. Two of his children were born there,
Thomas and Francis Temple. The latter died some forty years afterward
almost to a day in the same room in which he was born. During this
time Mr. Temple purchased La Merced Rancho, consisting of 2,363 acr-js,
where he built for himself a large roomy and substantial adobe building,
after the old Spanish style, llO.xlOO feet, forming a half square. There
he engaged largely in the breeding of stock, and he also bought stock
from other raisers and sent immense droves of cattle north. As a stock-
man he realized immense profits. About 1850 he commenced the work of
further improving and beautifying his home property on the Merced
ranch. He planted a vineyard of fifty thousand vines, set out thirty acres
to miscellaneous fruits, and laid out a beautiful garden, one of the finest
in the county in that day. Mr. Temple was also a lover of fine horses, and
much interested in their breeding. In 1860 he purchased Black Warrior,
paying seven thousand dollars, an almost unheard of price for a single
animal in those days. He was also interested in the breeding of fine
mules, paying a thousand dollar.S' for a Kentucky Jack. About this time
he began fencing in his large domain, spending about forty thousand dol-
lars for that purpose alone, besides building commodious barns for his
stock. All the lumber had to be brought by wagon from San Pedro har-
bor, a distance of thirty miles.
Mr. Temple was one of the heavy land owners of California. He was
half owner of Rancho Tejon, which contained twenty-two leagues; and
was also part or whole owner of the following ranches : Chonchella, con-
taining one hundred ten thousand acres ; San Emedio, thirty thousand
acres ; La Merced, two thousand three hundred and sixty-three acres ;
Potrero Grande, four thousand four hundred and thirty-one acres ; Ran-
cho Potrero de Felipo Lugo, two thousand and forty-two acres. He also
owned the Temple Block and had numerous lots and acre properties scat-
tered all the way from Los Angeles to the ocean.
His participation in business afifairs of Los Angeles was as a pioneer
banker. He became associated with L W. Hellman and his father-in-law,
William Workman. This partnership was dissolved in 187L and was
succeeded by the banking house of Temple and Workman. The new
firm had their headquarters in the massive structure known then and now
as the Temple Block, one of the best business locations in the city. The
Temple and Workman bankers became well known in business circles all
over the Pacific Coast, throughout the adjacent territories, and in many
of the principal financial centers of the east. The firm failed in 1875-76.
Through that failure the magnificent fortune so energetically acquired by
the proprietors melted away. Mr. Workman died May 17, 1876. Mr. Tem-
ple never recovered from the financial disaster by which he lost all but his
honor. He died of apoplexy at La Merced Rancho April 27, 1880. He
lies in the La Puente family burying ground by the side of his bride of
long ago, whom he took from the Workman homestead when she was
fifteen and he a young man of twenty-two.
Perhaps the most impressive fact about his career was neither his splen-
did accumulations of land and property nor the disaster which overtook
him in banking, but consisted in the qualities of a noble heart, especially
generosity, which would not allow him to see anyone sufifer. During the
smallpox epidemic of 1863 he kept a carpenter at his ranch at La Merced
especially to make coffins for the poor, and they were free to anyone that
needed them. As a friend he tided many a family over temporary cnses
by covering their credit at the grocery store. His generosity and his in-
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ability to say no were the real cause of his downfall, since he was taken
advantage of at every turn. Mr. Temple was the father of eleven chil-
dren, eight growing to manhood and womanhood, six sons and two
daughters.
Apart from the interest attaching to it due to the personality of the
pioneer writer, there is much vivid history contained in a letter now care-
fully preserved by his descendants and written by Francis Pliny Fisk
Temple to his brother in 1845. It is the privilege of the publishers to
quote this letter in its essential parts, thus giving permanent record to a
document which is now more than seventy years old.
"Pueblo de Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 1845.
Dear Brother :
The country is quiet at present. How long it will continue is difficult
to say. At all events it will remain so until we have grass to fatten the
horses, as Californians cannot fight unless they have something to run
away on. We have had no rain to speak of since 1843. The plains are
now barren as the Desert of Arabia. The cattle are dying of hunger in
many parts. However, I hope in the course of the next month we shall
have some rain, if not tallow will be scarce the coming season. Last
February the Californians with the assistance of foreigners sent General
Micheltonen with his troops out of the country. The battle was fought
about ten miles from this place. There was a great number of cannon
fired but without injury to either party, except the killing of a few horses
which is of not much consequence in this country. Had the General
gained the day the Pueblo probably would have been plundered by his
troops, as he had promised them previous to their arrival near the place
that in case of victory they should have two hours for plunder, but they
were not victorious, they were sent to San Pedro to embark on board an
American ship for San Bias.
"Don Pio Pico is now governor of California. He resides in this place,
this being the seat of government at present. The Pueblo is increasing in
population. Quite a number of houses (or huts) were put up last sea-
son. A considerable quantity of brandy and wine was made here this
year, this section of the country being the only part where liquors are
made. Brandy is worth here thirty dollars a barrel of eighteen gal-
lons, wine bears dififerent prices, according to its quality, say from eighteen
to twenty dollars per barrel."
Mrs. F. P. F. Temple died January 24, 1882. Her eleven children,
with the dates of their birth, were: Thomas Workman Temple, Novem-
ber 26, 1846; Francis Workman Temple, August 5, 1848; William Tem-
ple, May 25, 1851 ; David Harris Temple, December 11, 1853; John Har-
rison Temple, February 27, 1856; David Harris Temple, April 4, 1858;
Lucinda Amada, September 13, 1860; Agnez, June 5, 1863; Margarita,
September 2, 1866; Walter Pablo, June 7, 1869; and Charles Parker^Tem-
ple, May 10, 1872. Of these Thomas W Temple died February 11, 1892 ;
Francis Workman Temple, August 2, 1888; and William Temple, Febru-
ary 1, 1917. The three children that died in childhood were : David Har-
ris Temple, December 21, 1856; David Harris Temple, July 29, 1859, and
Agnez Temple July 19, 1865.
John Harrison Temple. While he would be properly classified as
a retired resident of Los Angeles, John H. Temple still has many connec-
tions that give to his career a special interest for all who esteem the
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builders and makers of Southern California and the historical progress
of the past.
Mr. Temple, a son of F. P. F. Temple, the pioneer Californian whose
career has been sketched elsewhere, and Miss Margarita Workman, only
daughter of William Workman, was born at La Merced Rancho Febru-
ary 27, 1856. During his youth he was carefully reared and liberally edu-
cated. Up to his eleventh year he was taught by a private tutor at his
grandfather, Mr. William Workman's home at La Puente. This was a
wonderful environment for his formative years, the historic Workman
homestead being surrounded by twenty-five thousand acres of land. He
was then sent to Santa Clara College, where he remained some three years.
Returning to his father's farm, La Merced, he was his father's assistant
until September, 1874, when he was sent East to his father's birthplace,
Reading, Massachusetts, and lived there two years with his father's sis-
ter, Mrs. Clarinda Bancroft. While there he attended school in Reading
for abort one year, then went to Bryant & Stratton's Commercial School
in Boston. Receiving his diploma, he traveled through the New England
states, visiting Washington, and was at the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia in 1876. He went back to Reading, but after a brief stay
started home for California, purchasing his return ticket almost two years
to a day after he had started for Boston.
He had need of all the education and the resources of his individual
character, since about the time he reached his majority his father failed
in business, and the family fortune was swept away. John H. Temple
proved equal to the emergency. Soon after arriving home he took active
control of the seventy-five acre ranch known as the Rancho Potrero de
Felipe Lugho. He soon had a walnut orchard of forty-four acres de-
veloped, and built his own home in the midst of that grove. As none of
his brothers were married, he felt that the responsibility of taking a wife
devolved upon him. More than thirty years have passed, and today he is
convinced that his choice brought him the sweetest and kindest of women.
Miss Anita Davoust, daughter of Mr. Adrian Davoust, and a niece of
the famous Marshall Davoust of Napoleon's armies. They, were mar-
ried at the Old Plaza Church in Los Angeles September 30, 1886, by
Bishop Verdagues. Taking his bride to his newly furnished home, he
remained there until the death of his brother, Francis Workman Temple,
who had willed the historic Temple homestead to him and to his brother
William. Later Mr. Temple bought his brother William's half interest,
and remained there about ten years. Owing to inadequate school facilities
he determined to move his family to Los Angeles, and has been a resi-
dent of that city since 1898. Mr. Temple has been a factor in developing
some of the most valuable properties in the Los Angeles territory, and
his success is ample proof, if proof were needed, of the inherent business
ability and energy of the Temple family. Mr. Temple is a republican
voter and a member of the Catholic Church.
No part of his record could be read with more interest than that per-
taining to his children. The names of these children and the dates of
their birth follow : Francis Pliny Fisk Temple, August 24, 1887 : Fran-
cis Workman Temple, November 17, 1888; Edith Christina Temple, Janu-
ary 20, 1891 : Adrian Davoust Temple, January 20, 1893 ; George Harri-
son Temple, February 2, 1895 : Edmund Parker Temple, January 7, 1897 :
Robert Palmerston Temple, December 3, 1898 : and John Harrison Tem-
ple, Februarv 27. 1904.
The oldest son, named for his grandfather, F. P. F. Temple, received
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his certificate of graduation from the high school and then undertook
work for himself when quite young. He now holds a prominent place
with the Salt Lake Railroad. He married, J"ne 27, 1914, Miss Florence
Bacejalupi, of Tacoma, Washington, and their union has been blessed
with a boy, given the name of his father and grandfather.
Francis Workman Temple, second son, named for his uncle, did not
live to see many years, dying in his twentieth year. He is buried by the
side of his uncle and namesake at the Temple burying grounds at La
Puente.
The only daughter, Edith Christina Temple, has always lived with
her father and mother.
Adrian Davoust Temple, twenty-five years of age at the time of this
writing, has had a romantic life. He enlisted in the navy when a mere
boy, and during his service of four years traveled practically all over the
world. He and his comrades were received by the nobility of England,
and visited such historic shrines as the Pyramids and the Sphinx in
Eg\'pt and the Rock of Gibraltar. He and his fellow soldiers were in
Sicily three days after the big earthquakes, and among them they raised
a subscription of over two thousand dollars for the earthquake sufferers.
He was stationed on the U. S. .S. Vermont, being captain of one of the
big guns, with si.xteen men under him. As a rifle and all around shot he
was considered one of the very best, receiving the gold medal for fine
marksmanship. After serving his four years he was honorably dis-
charged, and after extensive travels throughout the United States arrived
in Los Angeles and lived quietly at home with his parents a year. Then
came the war with Germany, and he immediately offered his services
to the Government as an aviator. He was schooled at Pensacola, Florida,
was sent to France, served on the allied lines about eight months, and was
then transferred to England, where he was stationed at the time of this
writing, in August, 1918.
George Harrison Temple, who like the rest of his brothers is a
native of Los Angeles, pursued the quiet routine of home life until the
outbreak of the war, when he enlisted, and received his military training
at Camp Lewis, Washington.
Edmund Parker Temple, a graduate of the grammar schools, fol-
lowed by a course at the Polytechnic School, was just past nineteen when
the war broke out, but he volunteered his services to the Government like
his other brothers. For several months he was stationed at Los Angeles
as a recruiting officer, was then sent to Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, to qualify for an infantry officer.
Robert Palmerston Temple received his graduation certificate from
the common schools and has taken up the driving and construction of
automobiles. Fie is now in his twentieth year and expects soon to join
the colors, and at his departure four of the Temple family will be enrolled
in the United States service — a record of unqualified patriotism, but only
what might be expected from the sturdy qualities exhibited by the Tem-
ples in the various generations.
The youngest son, John Harrison Temple, named for his father, is in
his seventeenth year at the time of this writing. He has his graduation
certificate from the grammar school and is enrolled for the four years'
course at the Polytechnic School.
William Workman, whose interests were among the very founda-
tion stones of Southern California's prosperity and greatness, and whose
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life was run with the romance and endeavor of the pioneers, was born at
Clifton, Westmoreland county, Enlgand, in 1800. When a young man
he came to the LTnited States and traveled much over the Indian country
of the West. He stood up as best man at his brother David's wedding
in Missouri in 1830. Soon afterward he crossed the range to New Mexico,
then part of old Mexico, and formed a partnership with Mr. John Row-
land, father of ex-sheriff William R. Rowland of Los Angeles county.
They opened a general merchandise store, but gave their attention prin-
cipally to buying and selling furs and pelts. They also owned and oper-
ated a flouring mill. The two partners, after remaining in \'ew Mexico
ten years and making a fortune, concluded to go to California.
Mr. Workman was sent on ahead to look up the situation, Mr. Row-
land remaining to look after the firm's interests. Mr. Workman started
from Santa Fe July 14, 1841. His passport given him by the ^Mexican
authorities in 1841 is now in the possession of his grandson, John H.
Temple, who has furnished most of the material for this article. After
being on the road four months he arrived at Los Angeles Guy Fawkes
Day, November 5th.
While crossing the Puente Valley he was irresistibly attracted by the
fertility of the soil and the situation. He immediately began negotiations
for purchasing the Puente property, containing 48,790 acres. He then
sent for his partner, and the land was divided, Mr. Rowland taking the
east half and Mr. Workman the west half. Mr. Workman inunediately
set himself to building a home, choosing a beautiful site, which even in
this day brings expressions of admiration from all visitors as to the beauty
of the spot. On this site he built after the fashion of the rich Don of
old Mexico, Mr. Workman being as familiar with that country as he
was with the United States. The dimensions of his house were 75x150
feet, and it was built of adobe walls three feet thick with a flat roof. The
northern portion consisted of three immense rooms, the eastern room,
occupied by Mr. Workman and family, the middle room, used as a dining
room, and the west room, a reserve room. This reserved room subse-
quently domiciled Mr. David Workman, his brother, when he arrived
from Missouri in the early fifties. The southern part of the building
consisted of two parallel wings, 75 feet long, making the length of the
building 150 feet. The parallel wings were devoted to various uses. On
the east the room next to the main building and to Mr. Workman's sleep-
ing room was used by him as a smoking and rest room. It contained a
large open fireplace, before which he spent his winter evenings. Next to
that was the well room, where water was drawn for all domestic purposes.
The excavation of the old well can be seen to this day. For drawing the
water a large English pump was installed with a handle four or five feet
long and a ball at the end weighing about ten pounds. The next room
was the commissary room, for keeping clothing, boots, shoes, hats, blan-
kets, as there were some fifty men always employed and whose wants were
supplied from the ranch store. The next room was the butcher shop,
where meats were cut up and sold to the ranch hands. A steer was
killed every xVIonday and three or four wethers killed during the week.
The last room was a blacksmith shop, where a man was always em-
ployed in making bridle bits, spurs and doing general repairing for the
ranch.
On the west wing and next to the extra or reserved room was Mr.
Workman's sitting or reception room, where he received those having
business with him. The kitchen was underneath this room and the food
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was taken up one flight of stairs to the dining room. Next to the sitting
room was the school room, in which Mr. Workman had all his grand-
children receive their preliminary instruction before sending them out to
college or other schools. The last teacher Mr. Workman employed was
Mr. Frederick Lamborn, of the firm of Lamborn & Turner. He re-
mained with the Workman family fifteen years, from 1860 to 1875. The
teacher would board with the family and teach the children table manners
as well as more formal learning. There were three other rooms in this
wing, these being used to store saddle trees, saddles and all that pertains
to a waquero's outfit, and also for the storage of grain. At the end
of these two parallel wings was an extension at right angles to a large
gate some fifteen or twenty feet wide, with a massive lock and which was
shut every night. On top of the gate was an elaborate pigeon house,
from which the family derived their squabs and pigeons.
Between these wings and the main building was a patio, an arbor of
grape vine, and on either side orange trees, two of which are alive, thrifty
and bearing every year, none the worse for their seventy-five years of use-
fulness. Mr. Workman also set out some four thousand grape cuttings,
manufacturing his own wine and brancfy. He always had brandy on
hand, running from a year to twenty years in age. This he stored in a
large cellar immediately under his house. He also built three large wine
cellars, one used for a crushing and fermenting cellar, the other for white
wine and the third for red wine. These wines were sold all through the
state, but the principal market was in Boston, Massachusetts. He not
only manufactured his own wine, but bought hundreds of tons of grapes
on the outside.
1863 and 1864 were extremely dry years. There was not much more
than an inch of rain in the two years. This practically put an end to
cattle raising in Southern California. Mr. Workman was compelled to
kill some two thousand head to save their hides. The cattle were driven
into a large corral from day to day and were shot. John H. Temple
recalls seeing cattle go up to a cactus patch so weak that they could
scarcely walk and in attempting to get something to eat would literally
cover their heads and mouth with cacti. It was one of his greatest am-
bitions to follow his grandfather through the corral and see him bring his
bullock down. He was considered one of the best shots in the West, and
proved it many a day, though he was sixty-three years of age. After the
dry seasons of 1863-64 Mr. Workman turned his attention more to the
cultivation of his ranch. He reserved five thousand acres for wheat rais-
ing. This was known as the Wheatfield Ranch and was some five miles
north of the house. One of the greatest difficulties he had to contend
with was in keeping the geese, ducks and sandhill cranes away and from
destroying all his wheat. These birds would light in the field by tlie
thousands, and men were employed continuously guarding the wheat.
About the same time Mr. Workman began the construction of a mill about
four miles west of the house to utilize the wheat, barley and corn grown
on the ranch.
Mr. Workman was the real bank pioneer of Los Angeles, though
seldom if ever appearing in the banking house of which he was the main-
stay. He and his son-in-law, Mr. F. P. F. Temple, and I. W. Hellman
opened the first banking house in Los Angeles in 1868. This company
was dissolved, and in 1871 the Temple and Workman Bank was opened
in the new and finely finished Temple Block, and on the same ground upon
which Jonathan Temple opened his store in 1827. This company did
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business all through the western states as far as the city of Mexico, and
had the confidence of the world. The two partners owned land aggregat-
ing a hundred fifty thousand acres. Mr. Temple by nature was not a
banker, was too easy in his business methods, and was taken advantage
of at every turn. The Temple and Workman Bank failed in 1875. Mr.
Temple was obliged to borrow money and mortgaged his own property
as well as that of his father-in-law, Mr. Workman, at such exorbitant
rates of interest that it swallowed up all their ranches. Mr. Temple died
April 27, 1880, of a broken heart and was buried at the family burying
ground at La Puente.
Mr. Workman is buried in his own graveyard, which he designated
in 1850 as a family burying ground. He selected an acre of ground four
hundred yards east of his house, had it walled in with a brick wall, built
a chapel and in the center of this acre he had a lot 40x50 feet fenced in
with an iron railing. Within the folds of this railing lie the mortal re-
mains of pioneers who helped to make California history. Mr. Workman
lies by his long life friend and partner, Mr. John Rowland, and by the
side of his brother David, who was accidentally killed in 1855 while riding
a mule in the northern part of the state, and was the first man buried in
the little plot selected by his brother. His cherished daughter, Margareta,
and his son-in-law, Mr. F. P. F. Temple, lie near him.
It is incalculable what these pioneers would command today if they
should rise and own the property they once had. Mr. Temple alone would
be valued at one billion dollars, as during the height of his prosperity
he owned all the Montebello oil fields lands, and they are estimated to be
worth over one billion dollars.
John Rowland. The American pioneers of the Los Angeles district
were a picturesque group of men, and some of them were also men of
the finest character and eminently qualified for the duties of constructive
pioneering. One of them \Vas John Rowland, an intimate associate and
fellow pioneer with such early Americans of Southern California as Wil-
liam Workman, whose interesting life story and experience has been
described on other pages. At death these two pioneers, the closest friends
in life, were laid side by side.
John Rowland was born in Maryland and in early manhood went
into the Southwest where he became associated in the mining industry at
Taos, New Mexico, as a partner with William Workman. In 1841 the
two partners set out for California in company with John Tete, Santiago
Martinez, Thomas Belarde and others. The next year they returned to
Taos for their families, so that their permanent residence in California
dates from 1842. On their second coming they were accompanied by
B. D. Wilson, D. W. Alexander, John Reed, William Perdue and Samuel
Carpenter, all well known names in the early history of Los Angeles
County.
Air. Rowland and William Workman together obtained a grant of
La Puente Rancho, comprising forty-eight thousand acres. On that beau-
tiful and historic site they spent the rest of their lives. The property
was divided by the partners in 1869, and about a year afterwards Mr.
Rowland settled up his estate and divided his ranch among his heirs, giv-
ing to each about three thousand acres of land and a thousand head of
caUle. He lived there in peace and comfort to the end of his days, pass-
ing away October 14, 1873, at the age of eighty-two. His first wife was
Dona Incarnacion Martinez. Her children were John Jr., Thomas, Rob-
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ert, Nieves who married John Reed, Lucinda who became the wife of
James R. Barton, and WilHam R. For his second wife John Rowland
married Mrs. Charlotte Gray, whose husband had been killed by the In-
dians while crossing the plains. She was the mother of a daughter, Mary
A. Gray, who became the wife of Charles Forman of Los Angeles. Mr.
Rowland's second marriage brought him two children, Albert and Vic-
toria. The daughter became the wife of J. W. Hudson.
William Richard Rowland is distinguished in the citizenship of
Southern California principally because of his pioneer and long continued
responsible connection with petroleum oil development.
The year 1884 is a really ancient date in the history of petroleum
on the Pacific Coast. In that year Mr. Rowland and Burdette Chandler
started to bore for oil in the hills of Puente Rancho. That rancho, in-
cidentally, was Mr. Rowland's birthplace. After several attempts to
discover petroleum, they met with success, and the Puente Oil Company,
which has grown out and developed from these preliminary investiga-
tions, is today one of the most successful and oldest companies in Cali-
fornia. Mr. Rowland is president of the coinpany and gives practically
all his time to its affairs.
Mr. Rowland was born at the La Puente Rancho, in Los Angeles
County, November 11, 1846, son of John Rowland and Dona Maria E.
Martinez Rowland. As related in the story of his father and that of
William Workman, the La Puente Rancho was acquired by these pioneers
nearly eighty years ago.
William R. Rowland acquired his early education in the public
schools, in the private school of William Wolf skill at Los Angeles, and
during 1858-59-60 was a student in Santa Clara College. Until 1871 he
managed his father's business, and then busied himself with his private
afifairs. Pie became interested in the petroleum oil industry through the
discovery of an oil well on his ranch of twenty-six hundred acres, and
as a means of developing the well commercially he had a pipe line con-
structed to the railroad. One of the first industries to use the crude oil
as fuel was the Chino Sugar Factory. Tlie oil resources of the Puente
hills, due to the enterprise of Mr. Rowland, became one of the corner
stones of the colossal industry subsequently developed in Southern Cali-
fornia.
Air. Rowland for many years has enjoyed the esteem of his fellow
citizens, and has been a man of prominence in the life of his locality and
the afifairs of state. In 1871 he was elected sheriff of Los Angeles
County, and was re-elected, filling the office for about five years, during
a period which tried the utmost resourcefulness, skill and courage of an
official in that position. As a democrat he was appointed by Governor
Budd a member of the Board of Trustees of the Whittier School and
was influential in bringing that institution to a higher standard of ef-
ficiency and usefulness. Mr. Rowland is a member of the California
Club and is widely known in business and social circles.
He married Miss Manuela Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have
two children, Miss Nina and Mrs. Clarence Moore, both of Los Angeles.
George Mason. Several of the best known sites in Los Angeles
bear the impress of the ownership and development of the Mason family.
The head of that family was the late George Mason, who, an experienced
banker and business man, came to the city thirty years ago, and was
soon recognized as one of the leading operators in real estate and building
development, especially in downtown property.
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In 1894 Mr. Mason built a three-story building on the southeast
corner of Fourth and Broadway for the Chamber of Commerce. That
was the home of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce for twelve
years, until that organization erected its own building. Since then the
old property has been remodeled and increased in height. The interests
of the Mason family are now handled through the corporation known
as the Mason Company, which in 1914 erected a thirteen-story office
building at 724 South Spring Street.
The late George Mason was born in Chautauqua county. New York,
July 1, 1842, a son of John and Maria (Leet) Mason. He was educatea
in public schools and in an academy and lived at home and was chiefly
employed on his father's dairy farm in New York State until 1870.
Then began his progress westward and at Waterloo, Iowa, he was a
loan broker for a number of years, and in 1883 removed to Plankinton
in Dakota Territory, now the State of South Dakota. He was one of
the early bankers there, establishing Mason's Bank. From there he
came to Los Angeles in 1888. He was also actively identified with
Whittier, California, and his estate owns the Mason Block in that city.
From 1896 to 1904 he operated a sugar pine mill in Siskiyou County,
and also owned extensive tracts of timber land in Klamath County.
Oregon. His son Dean managed that timber property, and both the
land and mill were subsequently sold to the Weyerhauser Lumber Com-
pany. George Mason was president of the Central National Bank of
Los Angeles from 1907 until his death on April 24, 1909. He was also
president of the Magna Silica Company, a corporation owning and de-
veloping an extensive and valuable deposit of diatomaceous silica in Santa
Barbara County near Lompoc. George Mason was not only a successful
business man but was extremely charitable and interested in many causes
outside of his private afifairs. In politics he was a democrat. February
25, 1863, George Mason married in Chautauqua County, New York,
Harriet Brownell. They were the parents of four children, Dean, Wayne,
Gertrude, now Mrs. J. P. Baldwin, of Los Angeles, and Pierre D.
Dean Mason, who has long been prominently known in Los Angeles
business circles, was born in Chautauqua^ County, New York, November
27, 1863, began his education in the schools there and continued in
Waterloo, Iowa, until 1883, when he went to Plankinton, South Dakota,
and was associated with his father in Mason's Bank. In 1888 he came
to Los Angeles with his father and they were closely identified in their
many real estate interests. Since his father's death he has handled much
of the business of the estate. He is also a director of the Security
National Bank and a member of the Los Angeles Country Club. At Los
Angeles January 14, 1893, he married Mary Strong.
Wayne Mason, who was also born in Chautauqua County, was edu-
cated in the public schools of Waterloo, Iowa, and has also been actively
associated with the family business afifairs since 1883. He was in his
father's bank at Plankinton and has since remained in that state looking
after the family interests. He spent only a few years in California.
At Plankinton he married Myrtle Hepner, and they have seven children.
Pierre D. Mason, the youngest of the family, was born at Plankinton,
was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles and Kiskinemea
Academy at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is also one of the managers
of his father's estate. He is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic
Club. In this city he married Azubah Higgins.
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Tracv E. Shoults, the executive head of the firm of Tracy E.
Shoults & Company, with offices in the City of Los Angeles, at Third
Street and Larchmont Boulevard, is a native Californian who is making
a splendid record of progressive enterprise in the domain of real estate
operations, in~ which his firm handles both city and farm property and
has been specially prominent in the development and upbuilding of a
number of attractive small city tracts into beautiful residential districts
of Los Angeles.
Mr. Shoults was born at Santa Barbara, this state, on the 3d of
June, 1875, and is a son of John W. and Mary (Alvord) Shoults. His
great-great-grandfather in the paternal line was William Shoults, who
established a home in North Carolina in 1732. Ancestors and kinsmen
of Tracy E. Shoults have been found represented in every war in which
the nation has been involved, from the early Indian conflicts and the
Revolution, along through the War of 1812, the Mexican and Civil wars,
the Spanish-American war and finally the Great World war.
John W. Shoults, father of him whose name initiates this review,
was born at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the year 1842, and was but
seven years old when he became a member of a party which set forth on
the hazardous trip across the plains to California, soon after the ever
memorable discovery of gold, in 1849. The boy adventurer arrived in
San Francisco in 1851, and thereafter continued to be associated with
gold mining in the northern part of the state until 1867, when he estab-
lished his residence in Santa Barbara County and engaged in the cattle
business. He became an extensive and successful exponent of this line
of enterprise, accumulated a large landed estate and continued his active
association with the cattle business until 1906, when he retired and estab-
lished his home in Los Angeles, where he and his wife still reside as
honored pioneer citizens of this great commonwealth.
In 1870, at Santa Barbara, was solemnized the marriage of John W.
Shoults to Miss Mary Alvord, who was the first white child born at
Marysville, this state — nearly seventy years ago her father having settled
in 1852, after coming across the plains from the State of Kentucky, and
he having become editor and publisher of a pioneer newspaper at Marys-
ville.
Tracy E. Shoults continued his 'studies in the public schools of Santa
Barbara until his graduation in the high school, when seventeen years
of age. Thereafter he continued to be associated with his father in
the cattle business until 1896, when he came to Los Angeles and entered
the employment of A. G. Bartlett, as a piano salesman. He thus continued
his activities four years, and thereafter he gave his attention to the fire
insurance business until 1905, when he engaged in the real estate and
insurance business, of which important line of enterprise he has since
continued a prominent and successful representative. He has shown
marked initiative in the selection and developing of small city tracts,
besides handling country property and also giving special attention to
the erection of houses of excellent grade. His largest development pro-
ject was instituted in 1919 when he placed on the market the Windsor
Square, the Windsor Heights and the Marlborough Square residential
districts in Los Angeles. All of these are restricted sections in the most
exclusive residential districts of Los Angeles, and in this metropolitan
section of Southern California are. to be found today nO subdivisions
that can rival in attractiveness for the building of homes of the higher
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class the properties that are thus being effectively developed and exploited
under the careful and discriminating direction of Tracy E. Shoults &
Company. The firm has excellent descriptive literature that may be had
upon application, and these splendid tracts should challenge the attention
of prospective home-seekers whose requirements are in consonance with
appreciative estimate of real values.
Mr. Shoults is known as one of the most progressive and vigorous
exponents of real estate enterprise in Los Angeles, and the service of
the organization of which he is the head insures the most courteous
and considerate attention and the offering of most attractive inducements
to real home-seekers.
Mr. Shoults is found aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause
of the republican party, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
On the 9th of January, 1909, at Los Angeles, was recorded his marriage
to Miss Beulah Winslow, who was born and reared in North Caro-
lina, and they are popular figures in the social life of their home city.
Marttn a. Leach. A native Californian, formerly in the lumber
business, Martin A. Leach is one of a group of progressive and enter-
prising business men of Los Angeles who are responsible for this city's
first practical achievement in the field of motor car manufacturing. Mr.
Leach is the founder and president of the Leach-Biltwell Motor Com-
pany. His long experience in the motor business and over two years
of thoughtful study were chiefly responsible for the Leach "Power-Plus"
Six, the first exclusively Los Angeles built motor car.
Mr. Leach was born at Marysville September 10, 1879, son of An-
drew Martin and Margaret I. (Pratt) Leach. He was given a good
sound education, attending public school in San Francisco until sixteen,
and then the Palo Alto preparatory school for three years. Though ready
for admission to Stanford University, he decided that the world of
business needed his services without a college education. His first ex-
perience was as a hand in a box factory for the Scott & Van Arsdale
Lumber Company at LTpton, California. Not long afterward he was made
foreman of lumber yards, and then assistant superintendent of factory
and yards. He resigned in three years to become manager of the La-
Moine Lumber and Trading Company of LaMoine, California. He left
that concern in 1906, again to better his condition, and was general
manager of the Northern California Lumber Company at Hilt until the
business was sold three years later. By that time his expert qualifications
in all branches of the lumber industry were quite well known and he
was chosen as general manager of all the Pearson lumber interests in
the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. These interests were handled under
th name of Madera Company, Limited, a sixty million dollar corpora-
tion. The outbreak of the Mexico Revolution of 1913 put a temporary
stop to the company's operations, at which time Mr. Leach returned to
the United States and for a year was sales manager of the Danaher
Pine Company at Camino, California.
Since 1914 Mr. Leach has devoted all his energies and study to
the motor car business and has achieved a knowledge of production and
distribution that in itself has been one of the primary assets of the Leach-
Biltwell Motor Company. For a time he was sales manager of the south-
western division of the Dort Motor Company of Flint, Michigan, in 1915
was made western sales manager, and in 1916 came to Los Angeles and
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opened the district agency for the Dort car. Here the business was
incorporated as the Leach Motor Car Company, with Mr. Leach as
secretary and manager. At the same time he bought out the EngHsh
Motor Car Company which held the King agency, and retained the sales
organization of the English company. He soon added the Liberty and
the Premier cars, and during 1917 the sales of his organization aggre-
gater more than one and a half million dollars worth of automobiles in
California. In that time he set a record for the sale of King cars in
the United States and reached second place as Premier distributor and
third place as Dort distributor.
Seeing distinctive possibilities for the development of a special manu-
facturing and custom service in the automobile business at Los Angeles,
Mr. Leach resigned from the Dort Company on January 1, 1918, selling
his interests in the Leach Motor Car Company to the Security Motor Cor-
poration. He had previously organized the Leach-Biltwell Motor Com-
pany and has been its president since December, 1917. This company
started in the restricted field of manufacturing special automobile bodies,
tops and maintaining an expert painting department. The first estab-
lishment was at Eighth and Kohler Streets, where the company had
one floor of a three-story building and employed fifteen people.
Since then his organization has done much to make automobile history
in Southern California. Comprising a^ personnel of experts in the auto-
mobile and financial world, the Leach-Biltwell Company have perfected
every facility for the production of cars of the highest standard of effi-
ciency plus that distinctiveness appreciated by owners of discriminating
taste. Mr. Leach Biltwell in November, 1919, acquired twelve acres
from the Republic Truck Company with 120,000 square feet floor space,
steel struction. At the present time in 1920 the production of the com-
pany averages two cars per day, and the factory is at Forty-eighth and
Santa Fe Avenue, with a force of two hundred skilled mechanics in the
difi^erent departments. From a special custom service all the resources
of the plant and organization are now devoted to manufacturing.
The Leach Power-Plus Six is a car specially developed and made
to satisfy the high ideals of California motorists. It possesses exclusive
features but in the main is built with standard units and equipment, readily
recognized by every car owner, all of which are readily duplicated, though
the ensemble is a unique combination of beauty and efficiency. The body
and top are manufactured complete in the company's own plant and
that still remains a distinct custom service.
Though a resident of the city only a few years, Mr. Leach has become
widely known in business and social organizations. He is president of
the Commercial Board, is a member of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles
Athletic Club, Brentwood Country Club, Newport Yacht Club, Union
League Club of San Francisco and in Masonry is affiliated with the Golden
Gate Commandery Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine at San
Francisco. He is also an Elk and a republican. At Marysville in Decem-
ber, 1905, he married Miss Katie B. M. Ribble. They have two children,
both attending public school, Martin Carter, born in 1908, and Annette,
born in 1912.
Miss Lillian Walker. There are few lovers of the moving picture
art who have not heard of Lillian Walker or whose enthusiasm and
admiration have not been aroused by her sincere and beautiful work as
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a screen artist. She entered the picture field in 1910 and has been a
star almost from the beginning, but in searching the country over it
would be difficult to find a more charming young woman, entirely free
from affectation notwithstanding the adulation she receives, seemingly
being entirely unspoiled by her successes. She is proud of her Swedish
ancestry, but her birth took place in America and her home is in Cali-
fornia, and it will be difficult for the thousands of her friends in the
United States to allow any other country to lay claim to her.
Lillian Woelke, whose stage name is Lillian Walker, was born at
Brooklyn, New York. She is a daughter of Andrew and Caroline Woelke,
the former of whom died in 1907. Her mother, two sisters and five
brothers survive, the mother and sisters residing on a farm to which
Miss Walker laughingly refers as her "country estate." She attended •
school at Brooklyn but in early girlhood her type of beauty began to
attract attention and she was sought after by artists, and long before
she came into moving pictures she had earned a good income posing
for different advertising firms. The fancy took her one day to show
some of her calendar pictures to J- Stuart Blackton, and he was so
pleased with the grace of pose and interpretation of character that he
immediately censented to try her on the screen for two weeks, offering
her a salary of $25 a week. She recalls that she waited around but
drew her salary for eight weeks before she was called on for trial,
and was starred in her very first picture and has been a star ever since.
For seven years she worked with the Vitagraph Company, playing with
Earle Williams, William Humphreys, Wally Van, Flora Finch and the
late John Bunny. She had a contract to make two reel pictures, one a
week for fifty-two weeks, with the three last named distinguished screen
artists. She speaks kindly of other screen favorites and of the many
directors under whom she has done such satisfactory work, mentioning
Maurice Costello in particular.
While Miss Walker has acquired a large fortune through her screen
work, some of her best known pictures being: Green Stockings, Kitty
McKay, Indiscretion, and Little Dolls ; she has occasionally suffered from
unwise business management. Once she organized a company of her
own, which through no fault of hers failed to succeed, and in order to
pay the incurred debts she sold her lovely home in Brooklyn, and further-
more, out of her own resources paid everything due the players associated
with her.
Miss Walker owns a channing bungalow in Hollywood where she
takes her ease when not working on pictures. She is fond of almost
everything that attracts a pure-minded, happy, wholesome girl, includ-
ing some domestic tasks, and when a chance photograph happens to be
taken unawares she will probably be seen surrounded by her household
pets, the latest acquisition being a Pekinese dog.
John H. Jones, who died February 12, 1903, was a California
pioneer of the fifties, and throughout a long and active life his personal
resources and character were generously devoted to the upbuilding and
enlargement of Los Angeles and much of its surrounding territory. His
is one of the most honored names among the older American residents
of the city.
He was born at Greenbush, New York, March 31, 1834, son of
James and Sarah (Olds) Jones. His parents were natives of England,
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and had acquired a competence in business before they came to America,
and in this country spent their years in leisure and retirement. Their
two older children, a son and a daughter, were both born in England
and died when past middle age. For many years James Jones lived
in Massachusetts, where he died. He was a typical English gentleman
and possessed all the sterling traits of that character.
John H. Jones was only a boy when his father died. Most of his
early training came from his mother, and to the end of his life he ex-
pressed extreme gratitude to the fine influences proceeding from her.
He attended the public schools of Massachusetts, but soon after his
marriage in the early fifties he determined to seek his fortune in Cali-
fornia. Many of the dreams of his boyhood had centered in this land
of romance. He came to California on a vessel commanded by a friend,
after a long voyage around Cape Horn. His first experience in Los
Angeles was as a clerk, but subsequently he removed to Santa Barbara,
and was soon in business on an extensive scale. While there he began
buying and speculating in lands, and in the course of time acquired
some very valuable property in the downtown district of Los Angeles.
His first home was at the corner of Fifth and Main streets, where he
lived for over twenty-eight years. He also had a home on Broadway
between First and Second Streets. The home where he died was at
258 East Adams Street.
Much of his prosperity was due to his unlimited faith in the future of
Los Angeles and Southern California. So far as known none of his
investments were unfortunate. He was not content to buy property
and allow it to accumulate value through the efl^orts of others, but
sought every means of improving it under his personal direction. Among
these improvements should be mentioned the Chester Block, a two-flat
building on Ottawa Street and another on Twenty-seventh Street, and
at the time of his death he had under construction a large warehouse
on Los Angeles and Fifth streets.
While his wealth and influence grew during the nearly fifty years
he spent in Los Angeles, his old friends and associates never recognized
any change in his democratic manner and his genial good fellowship
and public spirit. He was liberal without ostentation, always devoted
to the practice of the golden rule, was a repubhcan in politics and a
very useful member of the city council for one term.
November 24, 1854, Mr. Jones married Miss Carrie M. Otis. She
was a native of Massachusetts and of a prominent Boston family, and
was reared in the traditions and the best schools of that New England
center of culture. She did not join her husband in California until
1858. She came west by the Isthmus of Panama and from San Pedro
to Los Angeles rode in a stage. Despite the obvious contrast between
this pioneer southwestern town and her home City of Boston, Mrs.
Jones learned to recognize the beauty and charm of California, to like
its people, and in turn was greatly beloved by them because of her
beauty of character and constant association with charitable enterprises.
Though a Unitarian in church affiliations, she assisted in building the
first Episcopal Church on Temple Street, and was also the donor of a
sum of twenty thousand dollars to assist in building the Young Men's
Christian Association home. In later years she relied upon her own
judgment in handling her extensive property interests, and her ability
was such that she seldom needed advice even in the most complicated
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problems. Mrs. Jones left ten thousand dollars to Barlow Sanitorium,
two thousand dollars to Ladies' Benevolent Society, ten thousand dollars
to Protestant Orphans Home, Los Angeles, fifty thousand to Southwest-
ern Museum, and gave one hundred thousand dollars to the University
of Southern California, known as the Carrie M. Jones Scholarship Fund.
She was survived by a brother and a sister, Mr. William L. Otis, formerly
of Chester, Massachusetts, now living in Pasadena, and Mrs. F. J.
Hall, of Pasadena, also formerly of Chester, Massachusetts.
Charles Raymond Macauley. Plutarch has taught us that the
life stories of men and women who strive and accomplish are the most
fascinating form of literature ; they instruct and guide us at the same
time that they entertain and thrill, and in the story of a success won
against great odds there is drama, human interest and education mixed in
the proportions for which the skilled playwright is constantly seeking.
Life itself is the great drama of life.
Interest in the career of Charles Raymond Macauley, artist, car-
toonist, novelist and producer of motion pictures, starts with the career
itself. He is another product of the State of Ohio, the great university
of practical politics, birthplace of presidents, presidential candidates,
artists, authors, journalists and mighty men of industry, and now holds
a high place in the list of Ohio's distinguished sons.
Charles Raymond Macauley was born in Canton, the home of the
martyred president, William McKinley, March 29, 1871. His father,
John Kendrick Macauley, served in McKinley's regiment, the 14th Ohio
Infantry, throughout the Civil war, and when young Macauley was born
Major McKinley stood as his Godfather.
While Macauley was a mere lad the family moved from Canton
to Cornersburg, a hamlet which Mr. Macauley describes as being just
what its name indicates. Here they lived for several years and here the
drift toward an artistic career began to manifest itself in the boy.
The Macauleys are of Scotch ancestry, and the Scotch tradition and
tenacity still clings to them. As has so often been the case, the boy's
artistic impulses were discouraged and even opposed with all this Scotch
determination from the moment they first showed themselves. His parents
had marked out for him a career in commerce and industry, an idea
to which they clung with determination second only to the boy's own
impulse toward the artistic.
It seems to be a part of nature's own refining process that the
creative and artistic impulse must fight for life from the cradle. Almost
without exception our noted singers, composers, writers, artists and
inventors have first been compelled to overcome or defy parental opposi-
tion, and only those whose flame was strong enough to dispel these clouds
have shown their light to the world. There can be little doubt that they
liave gathered strength in the process.
The family removed to Canton when Charles Macauley was still of
tender age. Things were not going so well with them, and the boy was
compelled to quit school at the age of thirteen. He worked at various
odd jobs for a time in a brass factory and then in the works of the Deuber-
Hampden Watch Company.
One day, while in the Canton postoffice, Charles noticed a man whose
face was vaguely familiar. He watched the man as he seated himself on
a bench across the room to read his mail, and then, as the stranger moved
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on, the boy spied something shining on the floor underneath the bench.
Running over to it he discovered a $10.00 gold piece. Young Macauley
ran after the stranger and gave him the coin and the man, delighted at
the boy's honesty tried to reward him, but Macauley diffidently refused
to accept a money compensation for an act of simple honor.
"At least you'll tell me who you are?"
Macauley told his name.
"You're not, by any chance, John Macauley 's boy?" asked the
stranger. Macauley proudly said he was.
"Why, then, you're my Godson! I'm Major McKinley."
From that time commenced a closer association between the future
president and the Macauley family, with which McKinley had temporarily
lost touch. From becoming a member of McKinley's Sunday school class
young Macauley obtained through the McKinley influence a position as
assistant court stenographer in the Stark County Courts. This was in
1889.
The following year McKinley obtained a position for the boy in the
office of a steel mill in Canton. This was at the suggestion of Macauley's
parents, but the work grated on the boy's temperament, and it was this
very temperament that got him out of the hated job.
The "boss" of the office was a type of old-school business man with
the flaring collar and flowing side whiskers which appealed to Macauley's
penchant for caricature, and one day the new clerk drew a sketch of
his employer on the fly leaf of his ledger. An envious fellow employe
reported to the "boss" with the results that Macauley was called up
"on the carpet" and straightaway detached from the steel business. Genius
it appears will work out its own salvation.
In 1891 Charles Macauley became a reporter on the Canton Reposi-
tory, which paper published his first drawing, a sketch of a fire in
Canton. The following year the Cleveland Press offered a prize of
$50.00 for the best drawing on the subject of "Thanksgiving," and Macau-
ley won the prize over sixty-two contestants. This event determined
the career of Charles Macauley. Not only did he pocket the $50.00
prize but the Cleveland World saw the prize sketch and wired him an
offer of $25.00 a week to serve as cartoonist on their staff. What other
cff'trs he might have received he never will know — he grabbed at this
one so quickly.
Later on he went to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the same capacity
at $30.00 a week, and then to the Leader at $35.00. He was now an
established cartoonist with a reputation rapidly extending over the country.
Of course this success could have but one result : he must try his luck •
in New York. Long before Macauley's day the ambition to "be on Park
Row" was the spur to every aspirant for newspaper honors. It was in
June, 1895, that he started for the metropolis with a number of sketches
under his arm. He even made one on the train, a political cartoon, based
upon President Harrison's announcement that he would not be a candidate
for re-election. This sketch he took to the New York World immediately
on his arrival. It was accepted and appeared on the front page of the
World on Macauley's second morning in New York. The other sketches
he sold to "Judge" and the late "Puck," and he began to feel that the
cold and cruel metropolis had been waiting for him.
However, like all the rest of us, Macauley learned that New York
has no favored guests. Sometimes it likes to "kid them along" a bit.
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but it demands payment. But he kept at it and eventually reaped his
reward. Such world famous periodicals as Truth, Life, Puck, Judge, the
New York Herald and Press opened their columns to him. With hard
work his fame grew and his drawings have been printed and reprinted
in every civilized country on the globe.
For one year, 1900-01, he left New York to fill a contract as car-
toonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. During this engagement he origi-
nated a noted "stunt." It was to have an elephant led about the streets
oi Philadelphia, with "G. O. P." painted on its huge sides, to illustrate
the doings of the republican party, and incidentally advertise the In-
quirer. It might be said to have been the first animated cartoon.
For three years, beginning in 1901, he retired from newspaper work
and devoted his time to writing and illustrating the works of others.
During this period he illustrated Joseph Conrad's "Romance" and other
books, and wrote himself the novels "Fantasmaland," published by Bobbs-
Merrills in 1904, and "The Red Tavern," published ten years later by
D. .-Vppleton & Company. Besides these he wrote a number of magazine
stories, chiefly for the American.
In 1904 he entered on a ten-year contract as cartoonist for the New
York World. One of his great achievements was the creation of the
"big stick" as a feature of his cartoons during President Roosevelt's
tenu. His adaption of Roosevelt's famous phrase "Speak softly, and
carry a big stick," caught on immediately, and is familiar to millions
in this country and Europe. He was the first cartoonist to picture the
"big stick," and has seen his idea adopted by dozens of his fellow
craftsmen.
I\Iacauley was president of the New York Press Club, the world-
famous organization of newspaper men, for two terms, in 1911 and
1912, succeeding John A. Hennessy, then publisher of the New York
Press, and being in turn succeeded by John Temple Graves.
It was the presidential campaign of 1912 which first turned Charles
Macauley's attention toward motion pictures. During this campaign he
assisted Josephus Daniels in the publicity department of the Democratic
committee, having entire charge of the cartoon service. To aid in raising
campaign contributions he produced a motion picture entitled "The Old
Way and the New." This picture, which was produced at the old Imp
.Studio in New York, is so far as I know the first motion picture political
propaganda on record. It served the democratic party well, but it
served also to open the eyes of Charles Macauley to the marvelous field
of motion pictures.
In 1914 he left the world to devote himself to the new screen drama.
During this year he wrote several plays for the original "Alco" Com-
pany, and produced independently "Alice in Wonderland," using a troupe
of midgets to play the various fanciful characters of Lewis Carroll's storj'.
This year of 1914, which saw the ignition of the greaf world con-
flagration, was a busy one for Macauley. In addition to the work just
mentioned, he began the preparation of a play, visualizing a great world-
-peace movement, based upon international police and courts, and predict-
ing a war which should sweep the face of the earth. David Belasco and
the late Andrew Carnegie interested themselves in the work, Mr. Carnegie
agreeing to finance the production, and Mr. Belasco to produce it at one
of his New York theatres. This was in March, three months before the
first rumblings of the thunder in Europe. The play was actually in
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course of production when the advent of the war stopped it. Mr. Belasco
caused to be issued from his office on September 12, 1914, a statement to
the effect that such a play was in production but had been given up because
of the trouble abroad.
The last half of the year 1917 and the first half of 1918 Macauley
contributes his time and genius to the United States Government, turning
out a series of war cartoons which were syndicated and published in one
hundred and twenty-one of the smaller newspapers in all parts of the
country; the gross circulation of these cartoons was over six millions
daily, and President Wilson commended Macauley heartily for this im-
portant war work in a personal letter to the cartoonist.
In 1918 he went to Los Angeles to take up definitely the production
of motion pictures. His own novel, "Whom the Gods Would Destroy,"
was one of his first productions, achieving an imusual success and re-
leased through the First National.
In 1920 Charles Macauley organized the Macauley Master Photo-
plays, of which he is president, director general and guiding spirit, and
which is now engaged in the production of screen plays in Los Angeles.
The ideals in art and literature which Mr. Macauley cherished
throughout his career are being applied to the creation of pictures. His
cartoons have jibed at human follies, fought injustice and oppression and
wrung out a tear for human woes. The ambition of greed and the ruth-
lessness of power, the problems and perplexities of the everyday man and
woman, and the joy of the little child have been the materials with which
he has worked in the past and with which he will continue, I am sure,
to work in the future.
S. Bartley Cannell. It is rather people of exclusive tastes and
desires than the general populace who know and appreciate the Cannell
& Chaffin establishment, of which S. Bartley Cannell is president and
founder.
Mr. Cannell was born in Liverpool, England, August 8, 1869, and
crossed the ocean with his parents at the age of thirteen. After his
education he went to work in a stock broker's office, and at the age of
nineteen joined the great publishing house of Charles Scribner & Sons
of New York City. He remained with that firm as a book salesman
until 1899, and then resigned to go into the publishing business for him-
self. At Denver, Colorado, he assisted in fonning the firm of Tandy
& Wheeler Publishing Company, which he served as vice president for
three years. He sold his interest in this business in 1905 and moved to
San Francisco, where he conducted a publishing and high-class book'
business under his own name. The fire and earthquake in 1906 caused
him to leave San Francisco, and at that time he came to Los Angeles,
where for nearly ten years he studiously endeavored to meet the local
requirements as a dealer in all kinds of rare books. He founded the
firm of Cannell & Chaffin, Incorporated, in 1916. Besides their book de-
partment they have the largest collection of paintings and the most com-
plete stock of porcelains and antiques on the Pacific Coast. The location
and environment of the firm are in complete keeping with the quality
of the business, the building having been especially designed for the
purpose.
Mr. Cannell is a York Rite Mason, a life member of the Scottish
Rite Consistory and Islam Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is a member
of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, San Gabriel Valley
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Country Club, and a republican in politics. At Los Angeles, November
24, 1905, he married Laila Rosetta Knapp, whose father was George A.
Knapp, a prominent Michigan banker. Mr. and Mrs. Cannell have
four children : S. Bartley Jr., born September 3, 1906 ; Joseph Knapp,
born August 23, 1907; Philip Shakespeare, born October 6, 1912, and
Elizabeth Laila, born December 13, 1915. All the children are natives
of Los Angeles and the sons are attending public school.
JcsE Diego Sepulveda. The Sepulvedas are a fine old family whose
names figure prominently in the romantic history of the ancient regime
of Southern California and in later generations the name has been one
of distinction in connection with the social and material development and
progress of this section of the state.
Jose Diego Sepulveda was a son of Dolores Sepulveda, who came
from his native Castillian province in Spain to California in the employ
of his government, bringing with him his wife, Maria Yquacia Avila,
also a native of Spain. The families of both Sepulveda and Avila had
provinces in Spain bearing their name. In return for his services Dolores
Sepulveda was given the Rancho Palos Verdes, which extended from
San Pedro to Redondo.
On this great estate Jose Diego Sepulveda was born in 1813. He
later became an heir to the Palos Verdes grant of thirty-nine thousand
acres, also owner of the Yncaipa Rancho in San Bernardino county and
part owner of the Rancho San Bernardino present site of the city of
San Bernardino, which he and other owners sold to the Mormons in 1852.
He was a somewhat conspicuous figure in connection with the
historic Los Angeles revolt of 1846-47. He and Serbelo Verela and
Ramon Carrillo had been dispatched from the Paderon Blanco with a
command of fifty or more men to oppose Wilson and his retainers. Jose
Carmen Lugo was already in command of a force of about twenty men
on the San Bernardino frontier with instructions to watch the foreigners
and he marched with his men to Chino. Lugo claimed to have been the
first to arrive at that point and to have been joined late at night by
Varela. The Americans were summoned to surrender and it is possible
that a few shots were exchanged between the contending forces at this
time. Varela promised protection to the .Americans as prisoners of war,
and the terms were accepted and \\'ilson and his men after surrendering
were soon on their way with their captors to Los Angeles. Sepulveda
and his men were in the advance and in charge of most of the prisoners,
who were in due time turned over to Flores, eight or ten of the more
prominent of the number being held in captivity until Januarj'. 1847.
During the remainder of October, 1846, a large part of the Cali-
fornia army — at least about a hundred men, were kept in service between
Los Angeles and San Pedro, the chief encampment having been at
Temple's Rancho of Los Carritos, and a small detachment being estab-
lished at the Palos Verdes Rancho of Sepulveda, near the anchorage at
San Pedro.
Jose Diego Sepulveda choosing the stock industry as his occupation
made the Palos Verdes Rancho his headquarters. He bought and sold
large numbers of cattle, horses and sheep and over the hills for miles in
every direction roamed his herds and flocks. Sepulveda handled his vast
possessions with keen judgment and great energ}', proving himself the
inheritor of his father's talent. At the time of his death Sepulveda was
fifty-nine years of age. His widow was Maria Francisca Elisalde,
member of a prominent San Diego family, whose father was the first
DON JOSE DIEGO SEPULVEDA
[ARIA ELISALDE DE SEPULVEDA
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major domo, overseer, of all Mission lands, a government appointment.
At Senora Sepulveda's death she was survived by three of their
eleven children, Aurelio W., now deceased, and Raman D. and Rudecinda
Florencia (Mrs. James H. Dodson, Sr.), both residents of San Pedro.
Harry B. Smith, who has spent most of his active business career
on the Pacific coast, conceived the idea and furnished the initiative for
the Pacific Audit and System Company, Incorporated, of which he is
president. This is one of the largest private agencies in the country for
acting as a clearing house for trained and expert office, executive and
technical help. The business is now represented by branch offices in half
a dozen of the leading American cities.
Mr. Smith was born at Lima, Ohio, April 30, 1886, son of J- S.
Smith. He graduated from high school in 1904, and then followed three
months of work as a messenger with the Standard Oil Company. On
coming to Los Angeles he continued with the same corporation, but in
the capacity of chaimnan of a surveying gang. After two years he went
to San Francisco and became bookkeeper with the Mountain Copper
Company, remaining in that work for two years also. He was then office
manager and cost accountant for the Crowell Portland Cement Com-
pany two years.
It was with this experience that Mr. Smith started the Pacific Audit
and System Company at San Francisco. In 1913 the business was in-
corporated and Mr. Smith has since been president and general manager.
He has developed a high class employment agency, operating what is
known as the "Bulletin Abstract System," furnishing capable men and
women for all clerical, technical, sales and office positions. In the spring
of 1914 the second branch of the business was established at Los Angeles.
January 1, 1917, an office was opened at St. Louis under the name
Bulletin Abstract System Company. On October 15, 1917, another office
was opened at Seattle, Washington, known as the Pacific Audit and Sys-
tem Company. April 1, 1918, the same service was extended to Chicago
under the name of the Consolidated Agencies. January 1, 1919, a similar
office was opened at Cleveland, Ohio, also under the name Consolidated
Agencies.
At the present time Mr. Smith has fifty-five people in his employ in
the different offices, and the business now constitutes one of the largest
expert labor exchanges in the country.
Mr. Smith, whose home for a number of years has been in Los
Angeles, is a member of the Jonathan Club. He is independent in politics
and~a^ Protestant in religion. At Los Angeles October 19, 1909, he mar-
ried Julia Webber. They have one son, Harry B., Jr., born in 1910 and
now a student in the public schools.
Edward Brant Jones. One of the best known osteopathic phy-
sicians and surgeons is Dr. Edward Brant Jones, who has practiced his
profession in Los Angeles since 1910 and is now specializing in urology,
skin and rectal diseases, and is professor of genito-urinary and rectal dis-
eases and surgery in the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Jones was born at Canton, Ohio, October 30, 1885. His Ameri-
canism is of undiluted quality, and his ancestry included the famous John
Paul Jones, the great naval hero of the Revolution. His father, Paul D.
Jones, was born at Ligonier, Indiana, and when an infant his parents
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moved to Ohio and were very early settlers at Canton. Paul D. Jones
graduated from Oberlin College, and for many years was superintendent
of the municipal water works of Canton. He died September 14, 1897.
His wife, Margaret S. Jones, was born in New York City, and is now
living at Long Beach, California.
Dr. Jones acquired his early education in the grammar and high
schools of Canton, also attended a business college there, and before tak-
ing up the study of osteopathy was employed as a general clerk in a bank
at Canton. He graduated in 1910 from the College of Osteopathic Phy-
sicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles and in 1913 finished a general medi-
cal course in the Pacific Medical College of Los Angeles. During 1912
Dr. Jones served as city health officer of Oroville, California.
In addition to his busy practice he is treasurer of the Cancellograph
Company, manufacturers of cancelling machines for use in postoffices.
He claims to have been a republican since infancy, and certainly he has
not deviated in allegiance from that party since he acquired the right of
suffrage. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member and past
president of Gamma Chapter of Iota Tau Sigma fraternity, and is a mem-
ber of the Culver City Country Qub, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and the
Optimus Club.
Dr. Jones married at Los Angeles April 4, 1910, Adele Young, daugh-
ter of Frank T. Young, a contractor. Her sister, Mrs. Philip Zobelein,
has achieved considerable fame as a vocalist. Dr. Jones is proud of his
three children, Jean Lorenze, born in 1910, and Philip Curtis, born in
1914, and Barbara Virginia, September, 1920.
John Steven McGroarty,- poet, historian and playwright, was born
in Foster township, Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania,
August 20, 1862. He is the son of Mary and Hugh Montgomery McGro-
arty, his father being a grand-nephew of Gen. Richard Montgomery who
was famous as one of Washington's generals in the American Revolution
and who fell in the immortal assault on Quebec in 1778.
John Steven was educated in the parochial and public schools of
his earlv home, and later pursued his studies in The Hillman Academy
of Wilkes-Barre. At the age of sixteen years he entered the profession
of teaching, which he abandoned at the end of three years to take up
journalism, serving his apprenticeship on the Wilkes-Barre "Leader." of
which he rose to be managing editor.
Taking an active interest in politics, Mr. McGroarty was elected
Justice of the Peace the year he obtained his majority, being the youngest
man to hold that office in the history of his native state. At twenty-six
he was elected to be treasurer of Luzerne County, being also the youngest
man ever elected to that office. At the expiration of his term as county
treasurer he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar where he practiced
law for three years, and then accepted an offer from Marcus Daly, the
famous "Copper King" of Montana, to join his legal staff in the moun-
tain state where he remained until the time of Mr. Daly's death. He then
toured Old Mexico and the southwest, finally locating in California where
he became chief editorial writer on the Los Angeles "Times" under the
late Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. He held this position for a period of
upwards of fifteen years, retiring from its active duties to prosecute
special literary work 'of his own. He is still, however, a member of the
staff of "The Times," contributing to its colums as an occasional and
not infrequent writer. . „
Mr. McGroarty's best known books are the two volumes, 'California
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and "Wander Songs," the one a fascinating narrative of the romantic
history of the Golden State, and the other a volume of poems. He has
also now in press with the publication firm of Doubleday, Page & Com-
pany, New York, a new California narrative which will appear under the
title of "The High House," and which deals with a phase of histor}-
hitherto quite untouched by any other writer.
The one great and doubtless immortal literary production of John
Steven McGroarty, however, is the now world-famed "Mission Play,"
produced for a season every year at Old Mission San Gabriel. The
"Mission Play" is declared by Dr. Henry Van Dyke to be the world's
greatest pageant drama. It has been visited by hundreds of thousands
of people from ever)' part of the globe and its prosperity and popularity
increases with each passing year.
Mr. McGroarty's home in California is situated in a lovely nook of
the Verdugo Hills, about twenty miles distant from Los Angeles. It is
an ideal situation for a writing man, and it is a spot from which the
world expects still greater inspirations from its well-beloved jxiet.
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